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Terrified yet courageous in the face of violence, Mountain Moms survive together

I was undoubtedly one of the only men ever to visit Mountain Moms, a group formed precisely to heal the wounds that men have inflicted on their wives, their girlfriends, their mothers, even. What reason did they have to trust me with their stories?

After a shoot-from-the-hip email, this skeptical pastor sits face to face with CBF’s new CEO

Will there be a place in CBF life for folks like me? Armed for bear, a skeptical pastor sits down for coffee and conversation with the new leader of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. Here’s what she discovered.

Living in poverty is hard work

Too often people in the United States see individuals like Glynda Jackson and Tamara Daffron and completely misjudge them. They associate low income or receiving eligible benefits with laziness as if living in poverty was a choice. “I don’t know anyone who would choose to live in poverty.”

Protest over conservative speaker prompts call for Baylor to recognize LGBTQ student group

Protests over a speech at Baylor University by a conservative blogger on record as opposing the “LGBT agenda” prompted more than 2,200 current and former students and other supporters to call on the historically Baptist school to formally recognize a gay-straight student alliance denied a charter since its founding in 2011.

Religion Notes: Amanda Tyler, Bill Leonard team up on history

-CBF Mississippi hosts racial discourse
-ABC-USA applauds Asian Baptist group

It’s not too late, even for extroverts like me, to cultivate silence as a Lenten practice

Fortunately, God has not called me to be a monk. But, by cultivating the discipline of silence during Lent, I see ways God is doing a new work in me.

Ministry jobs and more

Indiana – Senior Pastor; Kansas – Pastor; Kentucky – Minister of Music; Maryland – Student Minister; Michigan – Pastor; South Carolina – Pastor; Texas – Director for Doctor of Ministry Program; Virginia – Associate Pastor of Music and Adult Ministries
And more

Simmons College panel critical of Southern Seminary’s self-study on slavery and racism

A panel at a historically black college in Louisville, Kentucky, said a December report on the history of slavery and racism at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary is meaningless as long as the school continues to perpetuate the flawed theology behind the founders’ slaveholder religion.

As a pastor, I tried engaging the issue of abortion with Facebook friends. Here’s what I learned

No matter if we are talking about abortion, LGBTQI issues or politics, we need to stop thinking we can change the world with an angry Facebook post or a partisan online article. We need face-to face conversations that humanize one another.

Baptist-Amish singalong takes bite out of toxic charity

If Amish and Baptists singing hymns together in rural Appalachia isn’t an expression of Christian unity, Joshua Hearne says, nothing is.

Why a biblical inerrancy-based bill in the Texas Senate matters

Texas Senate Bill 17 raises serious questions. This year’s Bible-impacted legislation is intended to protect people of faith from the LGBTQ “agenda.” Fifty years ago, the debate involved a similar “biblical” and “legal” response to civil rights for African Americans.

If Trump came to your church, what sermon would you want him to hear?

Many of President Trump’s actions are antithetical to the Gospel. But anger cannot be everything that Trump’s backers hear from us. Ministers would be better off, at times, asking the Spirit to help the president and his defenders understand that God loves all people.

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?