This is the ninth in a BNG series of articles on Christianity and democracy that will lead toward the July 4 celebration of America’s 250th birthday. The series has been curated by Carol McEntyre, senior minister at First Baptist Church of...
A Southern Baptist megachurch in South Carolina says it is not responsible for actions of a former volunteer criminally accused of sexually assaulting preschool boys inside a church bathroom while security cameras rolled.
Ash Wednesday doesn’t stand alone. It’s a gateway to the season of Lent, which is in itself a way of understanding the whole of the gospel story.
By Carrie Harris DECATUR, Ga.— The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and Alabama CBF are responding to the devastating March 3 tornadoes in Lee County, Ala., in partnership with Volunteers of America and First Baptist Church of Auburn. CBF Disaster Response has…
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Among abstentions the week of Ash Wednesday so far, food leads technology and personal habits.
The Department of Homeland Security has filed notice that it is extending temporary protected status for foreign nationals from El Salvador, Nicaragua, Haiti and Sudan until Jan. 2, 2020.
Cooperative Baptists are joining in national efforts to help those affected by deadly tornadoes that ravaged parts of Lee County, Alabama, on Sunday. Television station WRBL in Columbus, Georgia, has reported that the death toll has reached 23 in the…
Backlash to an investigation by the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News about widespread sexual abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention has prompted the resignation of at least one convention leader. Ken Alford, pastor of Crossroads Baptist Church in Valdosta,…
Nell Green needed no prodding when asked for an interview about Robert Kraft, the New England Patriots owner recently charged with soliciting prostitution in a Florida massage parlor suspected as a human trafficking site. “Don’t get me started,” she said….
The point of Pancake Tuesday is not to get the partying out of our system before Lent begins. Feast days remind us to live in gratitude. Celebration, reveling in the pleasures of life, helps us pay attention.
In many states, the lack of government oversight puts children at risk of physical abuse or educational neglect.
Republicans seeking nomination for the last open seat in the 116th United States Congress face a wide-open field after a former Southern Baptist pastor initially declared winner of the race said he will not campaign in an upcoming special election…
