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The prevailing power of Pentecost and the Holy Spirit’s socialist tendencies

We need God’s very essence and being to persuade those in power to see the work that they do through God’s eyes, to adopt and embrace God’s view of things, and then to make it happen in the legislation they produce, the policies they enact and the initiatives they advance.

Yes, my kids are ‘real’: adoption and the myth of children who are less

As we prepare for the birth of daughter, we have been struck by the differences between the response to her anticipated arrival and the response to our first two children. Kids welcomed into families through adoption are no less “real children” than biological children.

New CBF leader urges churches to step up financial support

The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s first second-generation executive leader urged churches to increase financial support to ensure that work started in an era of strife within the Southern Baptist Convention continues to flourish after veterans of the SBC holy war move off the scene.

CBF not immune from abuse, leader says, but isn’t saddled with patriarchal theology of the SBC

The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship is paying heed to a major sexual abuse crisis engulfing its estranged sibling, the Southern Baptist Convention, an official said June 20 during a report of the CBF Governing Board.

Sister leaders from Cuba and America: inhabiting the Body of Christ and the nation-state

Together we as Cuban and American Christians are part of the beloved community constructed by the Triune God who creates space for our disparate national identities. We share a commitment to live as Christians under the Lordship of Christ while navigating the demands of citizenship and religious liberty.

Core Baptist convictions: After 400 years are many of us uncomfortable in our own skin?

Some Baptists are ready to ditch “brand name” Christianity for Christian evangelical mono-culture, ready to run a congregation of called and baptized believer-priests as a corporation and ready to forget that we ever were these people called Baptists. I’m not there just yet.

Supreme Court delivers ‘splintered’ opinion upholding Bladensburg cross

The United States Supreme Court ruled June 20 that a 40-foot Latin cross can remain on public land as a historical symbol of war.

Another Southern Baptist minister charged with child abuse

Bad news continued for a Southern Baptist Convention spotlighted in recent months by major newspapers for out-of-control sexual abuse with Monday’s arrest of a Louisiana pastor accused of raping an 11-year-old girl over a two-year period.

Returning from sabbatical, I was reminded: I am unnecessary but not insignificant

I have a role, just as each of us who gets caught up in the in-breaking of God in the world has a role. But that role only has meaning in the context of a community that struggles together.

Religious Right leader elected chair of international religious freedom watchdog group

Tony Perkins, a Religious Right leader long criticized as anti-Muslim and anti-gay, has been named chairman of U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.

Switching denominations: Why some Baptist ministers are leaving

“As denominations have declined and become more rigid and doctrinaire, people have gone looking for opportunities in denominations that seem more compatible”

‘Doesn’t anyone want to be baptized anymore?’ The ‘tangibilifying’ grace of baptism

Faith and baptism are intricately related. Faith keeps baptism from becoming simply a magic ritual for fulfilling a salvific requirement; while baptism keeps faith from becoming simply an individual experience. It unites us with God’s new community, the Church.

Theologizing with Larkin Poe, 10 years after Reskinned

Ministry leader with tall tales wins GOP bid for Colorado governor

What Willy Rice once knew

What I learned July 5 at church