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...
A South Carolina megachurch is under scrutiny after the arrest of a church volunteer reportedly caught on security video molesting 14 preschoolers in the last three months.
Dorothy Posey Jones described how “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing” strengthened and comforted protestors in a 2005 article reprinted to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
The Rev. Mark Harris, a Southern Baptist pastor turned aspiring congressman, is facing allegations of election fraud in North Carolina, where authorities are investigating whether an operative for his campaign paid workers to take absentee ballots from voters illegally.
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…
The founders of Grandmothers Against Violence are sick and tired of mass shootings and the easy availability of assault weapons – and they are doing something about it.
Achingly personal stories – parents losing their gay son, Christians losing their jobs in faith-based organizations after coming out – are prompting some groups to reexamine their discriminatory positions on sexuality and gender.
Staffing costs typically account for 45 to 55 percent of a church’s budget. But with recent changes in costs, demographics, and giving in US churches, many are questioning that model.
As we celebrate Jesus’ birth, let us more fully imitate his life. That means reclaiming the power of prophecy. Doing so could make this Advent season more of an adventure than we ever imagined.
By Blake Tommey More than one-third of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s field personnel are now addressing some form of global migration, according to Sam Harrell, associate coordinator of CBF Global Missions. “That’s significant,” Harrell noted, “because global migration wasn’t initially…
W.C. Fields, a pioneer in religious communications and defender of an uncensored Baptist press, died Sunday at age 96.
As Christians, our free exercise of religion, set forth in the Constitution, means working to ensure that those to whom Jesus came to minister – the poor, the sick, the hungry, the incarcerated, the immigrant – are not trampled underfoot in our common life and public policy.
George H.W. Bush, who died Friday, was a lifetime Episcopalian, part of the blue blood of America’s founding Christianity. But as a presidential candidate, he was part of a Republican opening to evangelicalism that changed the country’s landscape.
