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Kyle Lake and Rachel Held Evans: alike in many ways and testimonies to hope

A high school graduation party for the daughter of a beloved friend who died 14 years ago evoked memories, sorrow, laughter and hope. But deep in the throes of sadness for those we lose, like Kyle Lake and Rachel Held Evans, is the reality of God’s stubborn insistence that life always follows death.

Transitions for the week of 6-14-19

Please submit transitions — including staff changes, ordinations, anniversaries or deaths — to Barbara Francis. This page will be updated weekly. STAFF CHANGES James K. Dew Jr., to New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, as president. He comes from Southeastern Baptist…

Report: Ethics complaint against anti-death penalty pastor/judge dismissed

The Arkansas state Judicial Discipline and Disability Commission has dismissed an ethics charge against a judge who also is a Baptist pastor for participating in an anti-death penalty demonstration on Good Friday 2017.

Abuse victim advocates pledge to keep fighting for reform in the Southern Baptist Convention

While Southern Baptist Convention messengers inside the Birmingham Jefferson Convention Complex took first steps to punish churches that enable sexual abuse, survivors relegated to a sidewalk outside the meeting hall demanded a system to make it harder for clergy predators to move from church to church.

Trinity Sunday: It’s better than ‘daylight savings time begins’

The unpopularity of Trinity Sunday has to do with the incomprehensibility of the Trinity. We sing, confess our faith, and baptize with Trinitarian formulas, but you seldom hear someone in line at Starbucks say, “How ’bout that God in three persons?”

There’s nothing wrong with praying for the president, except when it’s not really about prayer

Praying for our president is needed and appropriate. My criticism of President Trump is aimed at refocusing the narrative not on a pastor praying for the president, but Trump’s never-ending quest to make everything about himself – even in church.

Amended lawsuit says SBC doing too little, too late, to prevent sexual abuse of children

A motion filed June 3 in a Virginia court says the Southern Baptist Convention is culpable in a multi-million dollar sexual abuse lawsuit against a member church.

How to live in perilous times: a pope and a priest’s contrasting responses to Hitler’s Final Solution

We, too, live in perilous times that will define us for all time. Will history remember us as protectors of ourselves, our institutions and our borders? Or as protectors of God’s children, as people who truly believe O’Flaherty’s motto: “God has no country.”

Caring for every child of God means challenging our country’s school-to-prison pipeline

In your community and mine, it is easy to find children who are, for myriad reasons, embroiled in the juvenile justice system. Will we stand idle and silent, allowing beloved children of God to be funneled away from academic success and rerouted toward the juvenile justice system?

Ministry jobs and more

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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?