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Beyond condemning racist violence, the white church must grapple with ways it is implicated in that violence

Dismantling systems of racism and ending racism’s attendant violence will require white people to engage courageously in political action that is grounded in solidarity with people of color across differences of race, class and religion.

North Carolina Baptist church ordaining trans woman to gospel ministry

A Baptist church that meets on the campus of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, plans to ordain a transgender woman to the gospel ministry this Sunday.

Religion Notes: Baptists raising money for migrant workers and cutting trips to the landfill

A Florida nonprofit operated by former Cooperative Baptist Fellowship international missionaries has entered a fund-raising challenge in which donors can help it win up to $25,000 and expand its ministry to migrant workers. The organization, Cultivate Abundance, is participating in…

Courage amid a 21st-century reality: Worship can get you killed, anywhere in the world

People of faith, whatever the specific tradition, now confront a 21st-century global reality: Worship can get you killed, anywhere in the world.

Captain Marvel and Wonder Woman may thrill, but real life Wonder Woman inspires the fight for justice

The real life Wonder Woman, Israeli actress Gal Gadot, has stood against intolerance and nativism as an advocate peace, equality and tolerance. We should embrace the heroes and sheroes who challenge us to fight battles we did not think we could fight, much less win.

‘To love is to suffer.’ Saints like Julian and Hildegard point us to Jesus’ way of suffering love

To love and to care for others – indeed, to be fully alive – entails suffering in all its forms. Lent is an opportunity to enter afresh into the paschal mystery.

Peacemaking about more than ‘funky t-shirts and Birkenstocks,’ Baptist says

Those stereotypes don’t do justice to a ministry inspired by the words and example of Christ, says Ken Sehested, a long-time leader of the Baptist peacemaking movement in the United States.

LifeWay Christian Stores to close nationwide in 2019

The Southern Baptist Convention-owned bookstore chain LifeWay Christian Resources will close all 170 of its brick-and-mortar stores in 2019, officials announced March 20. LifeWay Christian Resources announced in January it would close some stores in a cost-cutting move while moving…

Paul Simmons, outspoken Baptist ethicist, dead at 82

Paul D. Simmons, a Christian ethics professor who a quarter century ago became a lightning rod at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary for advocating a woman’s right to abortion, died March 17 following an illness. He was 82. Walter Shurden, a…

Transitions for the week of 3-22-19

Please submit transitions — including staff changes, ordinations, anniversaries or deaths — to Barbara Francis. This page will be updated weekly. STAFF CHANGES Janie Adams, to First Baptist Church, West Jefferson, N.C., as music ministry director. Adam Denny, to North…

Tennessee clergy oppose attempts to reverse gains by sexual minorities

Faith leaders say a group of bills in the Republican-controlled state legislature “promote discrimination rather than justice and demean the worth of LGBTQ people in our state.”

Eradicating DEI hasn’t made anything better

How Christian nationalism shows up in patriotic worship services

Dear Trump-supporting Christians, are you really OK with this?

‘Every Student. Every State’ campaign promotes school tax credit