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Two parallels and an outlier: Graham Platner, Roy Moore and Donald Trump

The stories of Graham Platner and Roy Moore, although unfolding in different parties and different eras, trace the same institutional pattern: Modern political parties elevate outsiders when they are useful and abandon them when they become inconvenient. Platner and Moore...

God help us: holding fiercely to hope amid all the warmongering

It’s astonishing to consider that only a few weeks ago we celebrated the birth of the Prince of Peace. There are absolutely no words to express the contradiction between the meaning of Christmas and the practice of warmongering.

50 years later, I still grieve my brother’s death: Looking back in order to look forward

In looking back on irretrievable loss, perhaps we can do a better job of capturing the here and now.

Brave peacemaking, not bullying, must be our goal

As observances of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday and MLK Day approach, King’s prophetic warnings about war ring relevant and true to our current political environment.

3 keys to surviving your wilderness experience

God is still present and still at work even in our darkest nights in the wilderness.

Transitions for the week of 1-10-20

Please submit transitions — including staff changes, ordinations, anniversaries or deaths — to Barbara Francis. This page will be updated weekly. STAFF CHANGES Emily Holladay, to Village Baptist Church, Bowie, Md., as pastor. Barry Howard, to Wieuca Road Baptist Church,…

Another church shooting: Have we become ‘morally anesthetized’ to the horrors of gun violence?

Sadly, West Freeway Church of Christ will not be the last American faith community to endure violent trauma. Yes, religious communities must develop security strategies for protecting vulnerable worshippers, but people of faith must reject any idea that such horror is normative.

Why neither seminary nor pastoral experience prepares ministers for (their own) grief

“I was equipped to function in the midst of crisis and to be a non-anxious presence, but nothing prepares you or equips you for the grief over someone who is dear to you.”

Are our churches and their leaders ready for the 2020s?

Rather than thinking of turnaround as simply a reversal of numerical decline, the real turnaround for congregations that thrive in the next decade will be a move from irrelevance to relevance in the lives of their constituents and their communities.

Ministry Jobs and more

Baptist News Global provides a free listing of ministry-related jobs for Baptist churches, theological institutions and organizations across the United States. Each free posting is for 30 days and is limited to 150 words. Postings may be extended another 30…

My take on the infamous Christianity Today editorial on Trump: Blessed are the (real) journalists

Journalism shares a lot of the same values as Christianity. They both privilege truth.

Church taps ‘Cheers’ approach to mix spirits with the spiritual

“You walk out of there every month knowing you heard something you needed to hear.”

The wicked are punished — or not

What Ryan Burge sees in America’s megachurches

We are a nation of immigrants

As worldwide deaths mount, Musk insists DOGE cuts didn’t kill anyone