It may now seem surprising to many United Methodists, and even more Baptists, that for most of our histories in the United States, all Methodists and Baptists were regularly designated as evangelical denominations. The most important reason is that both...
What troubles me most about the people I meet for the first time at the cemetery is how many of them failed to live life beyond basic expectations.
I’m beginning to realize just how many people in our churches have been the unnamed concubine of Judges 19.
Please submit transitions — including staff changes, ordinations, anniversaries or deaths — to Barbara Francis. This page will be updated weekly. STAFF CHANGES Matt Boschen, to Mount Vernon Baptist Church, Glen Allen, Va., as associate pastor for students. He comes…
Presented here are BNG’s top 25 news and opinion articles during the past decade.
Purity culture, alive and thriving in church youth groups, argues that Christians should shut down their sex drives and minimize the relationships to their bodies. Research shows the damage being done.
Some species of evangelical religion will ultimately rise from the rubble of American conservatism, but it will be greatly curtailed, politically irrelevant and, I pray, more recognizably Christian.
It’s high time for the church to drop all its stones and stop acting like its role is to be judge, jury, and executioner for those who believe and live in different ways.
If you consider yourself a thoughtful Christian, then this is the Year in Review for you.
These are a few of the prominent Baptists who died in 2019.
If you consider yourself a thoughtful Christian, then this is the Year in Review for you.
Like it or not, the evangelical dilemma has implications for the way much of Christianity is viewed throughout American culture. The magazine’s now infamous editorial simply punctuated that reality.
We need more conversation about how to cull the role of the pastor from all that we layer on it. But the particular work of the pastor today includes the integral tasks of connecting, cohering and completing.
