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Baptists gearing up for Alabama tornado response

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…

SBC leader steps down after newspaper expose about abuse and coverup

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,…

#MeToo adding to the heat on Robert Kraft, anti-trafficking advocate says

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….

Penitential pancakes: sin soaked in syrup

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.

Critics of Christian home schooling are calling for reform. Here’s why.

In many states, the lack of government oversight puts children at risk of physical abuse or educational neglect.

Contested congressional election wide open after Mark Harris decides not to run

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…

Addressing clergy misconduct: American Baptists do things differently

As an American Baptist leader, I take clergy misconduct very seriously. I want to be heartfelt in my support of the vast majority of our clergy who are people of integrity. But I will be vigilant in dealing with those who are not.

DeVos pushes tax credit to promote school choice

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos proposed a plan Thursday to create federal tax credits encouraging donations to groups providing scholarships for students to attend private schools.

Popular teacher fired from Chapin church. She says it’s because she loves a woman

A South Carolina woman says he was fired from her role as a teacher at a Baptist child development center for her same-sex relationship.

Families sue Academy Sports for selling weapon used in church shooting

Fifty-six individuals seeking more than $1 million each in damages claim Academy illegally sold the Ruger AR-556 rifle used to kill 27 men, women and children at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, on Nov. 5, 2017.

For my Methodist friends (and others): how to survive the death of your denominational home. Or not

My sisters and brothers in the Methodist tradition (and elsewhere), if you do have to leave your denominational home, I hope that you keep your eyes and ears open for a God you or your tradition can’t hold on to: a God at the bottom of the slippery slope, in a field Rumi famously described as one beyond right doing and wrong doing.

Transitions for the week of 3-1-19

Please submit transitions — including staff changes, ordinations, anniversaries or deaths — to Barbara Francis. This page will be updated weekly. STAFF CHANGES Kyle Ballantine, to Binkley Baptist Church, Chapel Hill, N.C., as minister of music and organist. He comes…

Paxton dodges ethics questions while claiming Talarico isn’t Christian

Restored Voices Collective gets GRACE report on former board member

‘CatsOnACouch’ influencer sues over First Amendment rights

Court finds Trump and Blanche conspired to create sham IRS lawsuit