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Pastor’s return to ministry received as bad news in abuse survivor community

Andy Savage – co-founder of a Tennessee megachurch who resigned last year as teaching pastor after admitting to sexually abusing a 17-year-old girl two decades earlier – is starting a new church for others who, in his words, “got our hands on the wrong thing.”

Sister, don’t ‘go home’; go preach!

John MacArthur’s “go home” comment directed toward Beth Moore was an insult to her and to her ministry of teaching and preaching. But it was more than that. It was an insult to every female preacher, teacher and pastor living out God’s call to ministry.

Pastors as ‘hybrid sailors’? New models for effective leadership in today’s churches

Borrowing from scripture and the U.S. Navy, I suggest a pastor’s role in today’s world should be like that of Jesus, who began his movement with the flexibility of a new type of vessel, a small crew and the vision of a new creation based on the pattern of heaven.

Princeton Seminary’s gift of reparations? Let’s talk instead about cultural competency

A genuine reparations process must focus fundamentally on achieving justice and equity for those who have been harmed, not on expiating the guilt of those who have benefitted, directly or indirectly, from the infliction of harm.

‘Gutsy church with a gutsy female pastor’ hosts Clintons in New Orleans

I want to be an innovator and I want to be part of this new thing being born.

Former state exec says arguments by NAMB attorneys increase SBC’s risk of liability for sexual abuse

For decades the SBC has avoided liability in criminal and civil actions involving churches or affiliated organizations by claiming they are all autonomous, self-governing organizations. But former Baptist Convention of Maryland/Delaware Executive Director Will McRaney claims in a new court document that lawyers representing NAMB turn that argument on its head.

The first black seminarians and remedying the legacy of white supremacy in theological education

The experience of James Bradley as one of America’s first black seminarians can show us how far we have come. But, even as theology schools consider ways to address their culture of whiteness, it also shows us how far we have yet to travel.

A pastoral dilemma about art and nudity: embodied faith and raising children in the church

Oh, the dilemmas of pastoral ministry. Here I sit, looking at a beautiful piece of art for Sunday’s order of worship, trying to determine whether to cover the nakedness of the man helped by the Good Samaritan.

Move so our kids get ‘better’ schools? Why our family is staying put on the wrong side of the tracks

The urban neighborhood where we have chosen to live is not always joyful. My heart has been broken more than a few times. But this place and its people have been my salvation.

Letter to the Editor for 10.24.19

Essay misrepresents Riverside Church’s decision by Macieo Anderson, Bronx, New York

Transitions for the week of 10-25-19

Recent church staff changes, anniversaries, ordinations and deaths within the moderate and progressive Baptist network.

Protests in Lebanon uniting unlikely bedfellows

A Baptist leader in Lebanon says a week of anti-government protests has done something unprecedented: unite a mosaic of various religious factions in agreement that things must change.

Mohler again claims same-sex marriage harms children

Dan Patrick reiterates: ‘No separation of church and state’

Baptists know better than this

Judge bars Tennessee from revealing immigration status of sick children