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Americans value freedom but there are differences on what it means

America’s 250th birthday prompted researchers at Navigator to ask Americans how they define America, patriotism and what our country should aspire to. The result was 82% of Americans across all generations saying they believe freedom is an extremely important value,...

Transitions for the week of 10-11-19

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

Evangelical leader: Trump’s refugee limit “dramatic and heartbreaking”

“Sadly, the issue gets caught up in some of our current polarized divides.”

Ministries respond with grit, creativity to White House refugee cuts

“They are grieving. It’s really hard to come to a new country with the language hurdles and a culture that’s so different.”

When the Holy Spirit joined my Uber ride

This is not one of those preacher stories that ends with someone saying the sinner’s prayer and getting baptized. But redemption traveled with us that night as we talked about life, pain and hope.

Doug Dillard — cartoonist who gave Baptists ‘Brother Blotz’ — dead at 90

Doug Dillard, a minister and cartoonist who for decades encouraged Baptists to laugh at themselves, died Oct. 5 at age 90.

Looking around today, it’s hard to imagine any ‘Stranger Things’

While “Stranger Things” is fascinating entertainment, some parts of its imaginative script reflect eerily similar conditions in our country.

When the church you lead is the Titanic

Traditional, established congregations that are more than 40 years old are in steady and persistent decline. Now is the time to speak the truth, reclaim our hope and launch a realistic and thoughtful plan for our future as God’s people.

Caring well? Speaker says Baptist Press reported abuse disclosure as a consensual affair

The official news service of the Southern Baptist Convention “trampled on” an abuse survivor who trusted her denomination to tell her story well, a speaker revealed during the closing session of last week’s “Caring Well” conference on the church’s response to sexual abuse.

Want to truly memorialize a 100-year-old race massacre? Let the people see the truth

We will not be afraid or lose hope or stop working for racial justice – meaning restitution and reparations – no matter how white supremacists and their quieter sympathizers sanitize bigotry, hypocrisy and addiction to greed with their hollow gestures.

Brandt Jean’s forgiveness of his brother’s killer was a Christ-like act; so is the call for justice

I acknowledge the bravery and faith that it must have required to say before the entire world, “I forgive.” But “I forgive you” is not the only cry we must hear.

Ministry jobs and more

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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?