It may now seem surprising to many United Methodists, and even more Baptists, that for most of our histories in the United States, all Methodists and Baptists were regularly designated as evangelical denominations. The most important reason is that both...
On the night of Ash Wednesday, somebody sitting at the bar yelled out, “Hey! You got something black on your face!” Without thinking, I yelled back, “Hey! It’s my skin!”
The influential Riverside Church in New York City is honing in on topics that progressive Christians sometimes gloss over.
Two former White House officials discussed how religion has played a part in contributing to the country’s political climate in a recent “Religion and Polarized Politics” event co-sponsored by the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics.
Barbara Brown Taylor writes about how teaching the different religions changed her students’ understanding of faith — as well as her own — in her new memoir, Holy Envy. She says the name of the book comes from her own…
U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced March 11 that her department will not enforce parts of a federal law governing the nation’s elementary, middle and high schools deemed unconstitutional in light of a recent Supreme Court decision regarding the separation…
A brief period of unrest in Haiti followed by a U.S. government travel warning has led short-term mission groups to postpone travel to the island nation. Youth groups and college spring-breakers in some cases canceled service trips when parents and…
Baptist News Global provides a free listing of ministry-related jobs for Baptist churches, theological institutions and organizations across the United States. Each free posting is for 30 days and is limited to 150 words. Postings may be extended another 30…
We want our children to come of age hearing the same message of civil religion in church, at their “Christian school” and on Fox News. For those who live in this kind of environment, reparations talk sounds like heresy.
In the U.S. education system, civil rights battles tend to focus on removing barriers to quality schools. Not so in New York, where new regulations guaranteeing a “substantially equivalent” education have inspired a pair of legal actions.
Rural ministry is experiencing a resurgence in the US even as economic and demographic numbers continue their decline.
A vice president at LifeWay Christian Resources joined the #MeToo and #ChurchToo moments roiling the Southern Baptist Convention with a statement March 11 claiming she was sexually abused by a seminary professor who resigned last year due to an undisclosed “personnel matter.”
The Bible says that we have this treasure in earthen vessels, but moments of moral reckoning, such as the one we are enduring now, remind us just how fragile earthen vessels really are.
