“Take him out! Blow him up! Take him out! Blow him up!” the children chant during a vacation Bible school program at Mt. Olivet Baptist Church in Lexington, Ky. With eerie music looming over the scene, the viral TikTok video...
Paul Chitwood, executive director of the Kentucky Baptist Convention since 2011, has been nominated as 13th president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board.
The U.S. Supreme Court is weighing in on the constitutional question of whether the symbol of Christ’s crucifixion is necessarily religious.
Is Christian America really going to sit silent as our government sends thousands of soldiers to the southern border to deny asylum to refugees?
Over the past dozen years, nearly 13 million American Christians have participated in short-term mission trips to Latin American countries. Where are those 13 million Jesus-followers now when their voices and actions are most needed?
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Waves of religious groups are mustering passionate get-out-the-vote efforts in the final hours before the heated midterm elections, with clergy pushing the faithful to the polls in ways that stand to aid both Republicans and Democrats.
People like to believe their faith informs who and what they vote for, not the other way around.
Shoppers like knowing they are contributing to a trade that doesn’t involve toxic materials, child-labor or sweatshops.
A historic African-American Baptist church in Alexandria, Virginia, received a bomb threat during a Saturday evening worship service, one week after 11 Jewish worshippers were gunned down at a synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The service, one of four services held…
Faced with the overwhelming abundance and appalling emptiness of human speech these days, something inside me wants to follow Job’s lead and “lay my hand over my mouth.”
On Tuesday night, I’ll watch election returns to see whether white people who call themselves evangelical followers of Jesus will, again, prove that they prize white supremacy above the inclusive and liberating gospel of divine grace, truth, justice and peace.
Together for Hope Louisiana works to ‘disrupt cycle of rural poverty’ through GED program By Blake Tommey Even for the most positive rural development leaders, it’s easy to focus on what is broken, explained Marc Boswell, coordinator of Together for…
