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Supreme Court denies appeal to pastor/judge barred from death penalty cases

The United States Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to take up the case of an Arkansas judge claiming civil rights violations based on religious beliefs he exercised in his other job as a Baptist pastor. Without comment, the high court…

An ‘apology’ is not ‘repentance’: responding to clergy sexual abuse and other crises in American Christianity

“Our sins have “found us out.” Wrongs swept under the ecclesiastical carpet or committed inside the church’s dark corners have gone public, requiring us to move beyond casual piety to encounter the pain, depth and gift of repentance.

United Methodists from around the world unite in St. Louis for fight over sexuality

The “big tent” of ideological diversity that the 12.6 million-member global denomination has celebrated is being challenged as never before over sexuality and may lead to fracture.

Why is this cross-shaped memorial constitutional?

The Supreme Court seems poised to affirm that it can be displayed on public land—but a great deal rides on its rationale.

1990s documentary about SBC battle over women in ministry now online for free

Producers of an in-progress documentary about the rise of contemporary evangelical Christian feminism say answers to what went wrong with the Southern Baptist Convention’s method of handling domestic violence and child sex abuse may lie in a film that aired…

Turn around and walk against the system of sexism in the Church

We live and worship in religious systems that function like a moving walkway of institutional sexism. Most of us nonsexist people are still benefitting from a sexist culture moving us through sexist systems.

Tim Tebow makes the Christian movie he’s always wanted to see

As executive producers of the new film “Run the Race,” Tebow and his brother Robby wanted to create the kind of movie — and Christian life — he longed to see instead: one that’s not perfect, but authentic.

Five decades after alleged abuse, Texas man cheers proposed Baptists’ changes

“Back then, nobody would have believed me. I have been carrying this around with me for a long time.”

Pastor counsels churches to greet disabled with compassion, not exclusion or fear

Individuals with disabilities, and their families, are accustomed to poor treatment wherever they go – including church.

Abuse survivors, activists to rally ‘for such a time as this’ a second time

Women who rallied in sweltering heat outside last summer’s Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Dallas to draw attention to sexual abuse and domestic violence in the denomination are hoping for a warmer welcome when they reassemble at the 2019 SBC in Birmingham, Alabama.

Clergy sex scandal proves Dale Moody was right about ‘once-saved-always-saved’ as a dangerous heresy

In the Southern Baptist Convention no one has the power to tell local Baptist congregations who they can and cannot ordain to ministry. When abuse comes to light, the church sends the offending pastor on his way with a glowing letter of recommendation because congregational morale would suffer if the truth came out.

The problem of ‘evil’ in describing Southern Baptist abuse crisis

Putting the onus of these sins on Satan can lull us into thinking that this is the aberrant behavior of an individual who happened to be possessed, rather than a systemic problem.

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