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Arkansas Supreme Court declines to prevent pastor/judge from hearing attorney general’s cases

The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday refused to bar a Little Rock judge from handling cases involving the office of the state attorney general who in 2017 got him removed from execution cases after he demonstrated against the death penalty in his extrajudicial role as a Baptist pastor.

New Liberty University think tank aims to revive ‘Christian American culture’

Liberty University, a private evangelical Christian school in Virginia started in the 1970s by Moral Majority founder Jerry Falwell, has launched a new think tank described in an introductory video as a “support network for the revival of Christian American culture across the nation.”

Transitions for the week of 12-6-19

Please submit transitions — including staff changes, ordinations, anniversaries or deaths — to Barbara Francis. This page will be updated weekly. STAFF CHANGES Preston Cave, to Texas Baptist Men, as missions and discipleship coordinator for students. He comes from Lakeside…

What if white Christians had a more realistic image of Jesus, a dark-skinned, religious-minority refugee?

Our dominant, white Christian culture has white-washed Jesus. Instead of expanding our understanding of those who are different from us, we have replaced them and their stories with a light brown-haired, blue-eyed lie.

I decided to make a list: 20 actions to cultivate hope

For me, the practice of cultivating hope during the Advent season began with a list of simple action steps.

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.

Walker Knight, founding editor of Baptists Today newspaper and former editor of Home Missions magazine, dead at 95

Walker L. Knight, a trailblazer in establishing a free and independent Baptist press, died Dec. 1 at age 95.

Less TV, more faith needed to help refugees along U.S.-Mexican border

“Believers in Christ in the U.S. are attached to the TV, which gets your emotions pumped.”

Telling the truth or creating our own realities? (And the wisdom to know the difference)

Today, in the land of the free and the home of the tribal, “discernable truth” seems tenuous at best. Americans are locked collectively in a truth-crisis so perilous that distinguishing “fictional” from “actual realities” has become a 24/7 confrontation across every segment of our national life, churches included.

People first: The Supreme Court – and all of us – should protect our 1.5 million known transgender Americans

In the case of Aimee Stephens, Americans’ bathroom habits took center stage as some of the nation’s most “rational” legal minds departed from interpreting the law and spiraled down into irrationality.

Are congregations and seminaries in this work together?

The ecosystem of congregations, judicatories and the institutions that prepare persons for ministry has been fraying across the denominational spectrum.

3 views on Donald Trump held by American Christians

US megachurches report strong rebound from pandemic

Baptists need to speak up again for religious liberty

What in hell became of heaven?