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As Southern Baptists mull executive vacancies, will diversity play a role?

As the nation’s largest Protestant denomination faces a rare leadership vacuum at the top of two of its agencies and two of its seminaries , questions have arisen about whether recent statements committing to diversity will be reflected in hiring…

Died: Yechiel Eckstein, rabbi who rallied evangelical support for Israel

The founder of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews overcame longstanding tensions and brought in $140 million a year for Holy Land projects.

Lawsuit against ex-judge, Southern Baptist churches drawing to a close

The attorney representing a man suing Judge Paul Pressler says he will appeal the case if all remaining claims are dismissed. A court hearing is tentatively set for April.

Western Recorder, second-oldest Southern Baptist newspaper, surrenders control to Kentucky Baptist Convention

The Western Recorder, Kentucky Baptists’ newspaper of record since 1825, will move from an agency of the Kentucky Baptist Convention to merge with the state convention’s in-house communications department beginning in March. Last week’s vote by the Western Recorder board…

Religion Notes: Melissa Rogers returns to WF Divinity; BWA protests arrest of Baptist leader

The Wake Forest University School of Divinity has welcomed former Obama Administration official Melissa Rogers back to its faculty. Her hiring was announced Jan. 30 on the Divinity School web site. Rogers rejoins the institution as a visiting professor and…

Who worries about hell the most

Baylor researcher: “If you believe in a harsher form of hell, you’re pretty sure you’re not going there.”

Bible reading in public schools has been a divisive issue – and this old culture war is starting again

This is an old debate. Bible reading in schools was among the first social issues to split American Protestants into competing liberal and conservative camps.

Virginia senate passes bill to allow Bible classes in public schools

The Virginia state senate on Monday passed a bill that would allow Bible teaching in public high schools.

Gov. Northam is not an outlier: American Christianity’s tolerance for white supremacy

Tragically, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam isn’t an outlier. He merely offers the latest, high-profile evidence of the deep and bitter truth about white Christianity’s toleration of, and complicity in, the sin of white supremacy.

Flight or invisibility: revisiting a classic theological question

In middle school we debated the great theological question: which superpower – flight or invisibility? I secretly preferred a third option: stopping time. But today what I need is the ability to be alive in this moment, in what Paul Tillich called the “eternal now.”

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