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Black pastors challenge their white colleagues’ silence

“We need to hear you say clearly in the pulpit and in the streets that white supremacy and racism is wrong,” a black pastor told a group of white colleagues following the police shooting of an unarmed, African-American man. “And no more generalizations. It has to be specific.”

Vote, or don’t. The issues are larger than elections

Elections are but the end result of an advocacy for the common good that starts in each watershed. Imagine a different future, find collaborators and spend yourself extravagantly.

Cory Booker could be a candidate for the ‘religious left’

If he does run for president, as many expect, Booker may be one of the first Democratic candidates in decades to actively cultivate support from religious progressives.

The evangelical women who reject Trump

Evangelical women helped Trump get elected. Now some of them are turning against him and his candidates – and could sway the outcome in key elections in November.

Transitions for the week of 10-26-18

Please submit transitions — including staff changes, ordinations, anniversaries or deaths — to Barbara Francis. This page will be updated weekly. STAFF CHANGES Marcia Bailey, to First Baptist Church, Pottstown, Pa., as acting pastor. David Goddard, to First Baptist Church,…

Sex expert says Genesis not final word on gender roles

Sexologist William Stayton said biology doesn’t support a literal interpretation of the story of Adam and Eve to explain the difference between the sexes last week at a JUST SEX Conference sponsored by the Alliance of Baptists. Stayton, professor emeritus…

When it comes to sex, turn to Bible, not biblical interpretation, scholar says

A good starting point for understanding what the Bible says about sex is the Bible, an Episcopalian scholar said at three-day discussion of “just” sex arranged by the Alliance of Baptists Oct. 18-20 in Nashville, Tenn. Kelly Brown Douglas, canon…

Couple narrowly survives Hurricane Michael only to face destruction-induced trauma

Denizens of the Gulf Coast are known as much for their healthy respect for hurricanes as they are for their disdain for evacuating them. Hurricane Michael has destroyed that attitude. “From now on they only have to say there is…

South Carolina is lobbying to allow discrimination against Jewish parents

That discrimination would apply not just to Jewish parents, but also to parents who are Muslim, Catholic, Unitarian, atheist, agnostic or other some other non-Protestant Christian denomination.

Josh Harris is kissing ‘I Kissed Dating Goodbye’ goodbye

Joshua Harris, the Christian pastor and author who wrote I Kissed Dating Goodbye as a teenager, says he no longer agrees with the book’s central idea.

In our neighborhood, ‘eyes on the street’ takes on deeper meaning

From one perspective, Skeet was the embodiment of all the problems plaguing our neighborhood. When you can only see broken windows, Skeet looked only like a broken man. But no person or neighborhood is only broken. What the folks closest to the ground knew was that Skeet helped hold Enderly Park together.

Church once led by Herschel Hobbs calls first female pastor

After a decade as minister for young adults at the historic First Baptist Church in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the Rev. Sarah Stewart has been promoted to senior pastor. Stewart, 36, officially begins duties Nov. 19 as 19th pastor of the…

PNBC plans ‘Freedom Sunday’ this weekend

Christian nationalism is neither Christian nor patriotic

High court says feds can deny reentry to Green Card holders

BNG introduces ‘Bible Divas’ podcast