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Why a monument marking the 100-year anniversary of a race massacre injures rather than heals

A monument recognizing the 100th anniversary of the Elaine Race Massacre will soon be “dedicated,” not in Elaine, Arkansas, but in Helena, across from the courthouse where justice was not served, on ground that also hosts a tribute to seven Confederate generals.

‘You had a future and so should we’: practical steps for climate justice

Yes, the environmental picture is bleak, and we need to know just how dire the situation is. But as people of faith, we are never without hope.

Transitions for the week of 9-27-19

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

Arkansas Supreme Court, Attorney General, continue to tangle with pastor/judge

The Arkansas Supreme Court won’t restore the authority of a circuit judge who also serves as pastor of a Baptist church to decide death-penalty cases, and the state’s top lawyer wants him barred from any civil cases involving her office in separate but intertwined controversies that began with a prayer vigil protesting capital punishment on Good Friday in 2017.

Beto O’Rourke’s debate invective and the new ‘Back to School’ video are the jeremiads of our time

Firearms aren’t on the slippery slope; the American people are. We’re the ones whose kids are scared to go to school.

Gay Christian activist: Baylor need not abandon theology to embrace LGBTQ students

“I do believe we can hold a conservative view of marriage and still love and support LGBTQ folks,” Gay Christian activist Justin Lee said at a talk at Baylor University.

‘Prophetic or pastoral?’ A trio of black women preachers expose this false dichotomy

In American Christianity today, many pastors and other ministry leaders in the dominant culture are afraid of being prophetically pastoral. As a result, the Church and the Gospel suffer.

Transitions for the week of 9-20-19

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

Helen Graves, wife of one seminary administrator and mother of another, dead at 105

Her great grandmother was a Cherokee who walked the Trail of Tears and she remembered women’s suffrage, but Helen Graves didn’t live long enough to see her dream of a female president. The widow of a longtime seminary dean and mother of a seminary president died Sept. 6, a few months after celebrating her 105th birthday.

Jarrid Wilson’s suicide – and the urgency of pastors being free to be themselves

Who better than a pastor – called to live in a peculiar way on behalf of a group of people unable to live this way most days – to practice the art of prophetically being one’s authentic self, rather than attempting to be one’s best, most marketable self?

Southern Baptist polity on trial in lawsuit appeal

A former Southern Baptist state convention leader claims the separation of church and state does not shield religious organizations from lawsuits over actions that would be illegal if committed by a secular business in a case before the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

I was terrified. Guns were stashed everywhere, right next door to our home

Beneath this star-spangled net of red, white and blue, we are trapped by hate and violence – and entitlement to our weapons.

Trump’s war on ‘woke’ targets federal grants and foreign relations

Reflections on In the Twilight of the Christian West

Why rural families need support now

Why do we keep sounding the alarm?