“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...
Please submit transitions — including staff changes, ordinations, anniversaries or deaths — to Barbara Francis. This page will be updated weekly. STAFF CHANGES Joshua David Franklin, to Mount Vernon Baptist Church, Glen Allen, Va., as senior pastor. He comes from the…
Despite reporting favorable feelings about African Americans, a recent survey also reveals that white evangelicals have deeply troubling views on who and what the problem is.
The latest abuse investigations have rattled non-Catholics’ perceptions more than Catholics themselves, according to survey data.
Close to 40 Baptist ministers gathered in Boston Sept. 17-20 for Baptist News Global’s second Conversations that Matter event. Centered in church venues on and around Harvard University, the gathering this year was themed “Pastoral Leadership in a Polarized and…
A Baptist church-state specialist warned a Senate panel Oct. 2 against “a growing misunderstanding and sometimes willful distortion” of the constitutional right to free exercise of religion.
Underneath the gentle smile and neighborly manner, he was driven by anger at the way the world treated children.
The date marks a controversial anniversary, stemming from the publication of the 12 cartoons of the Islamic prophet Mohammed in Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in 2005, which sparked riots in Muslim communities around the world.
Good lawyers can grow up in a society that offers preference to rich white men, but the privileged have to recognize their privilege as a gift to be shared. President Trump needs to find a nominee who can imagine what life is like for those who know that no matter how smart they are or how hard they work they will never go to Yale.
Relevant publisher Cameron Strang said recently on Instagram that the magazine claiming more than 2 million monthly readers on various platforms lost long-time advertiser Samaritan’s Purse and Operation Christmas Child “due to our critical reporting about Franklin Graham’s inflammatory rhetoric.”
Do we want the suffering servant Messiah of the Gospels? Or do we prefer the vengeful, conquering general of Revelation 19? The Messianic image we are drawn to reveals a great deal about what is in our hearts.
The Christian Broadcasting Network is entering the crowded world of 24-hour news broadcasting at a time when the mainstream news media is under increasing attack by President Donald Trump and some of his supporters, many of them evangelicals.
History reminds us again and again that it’s always been easier to believe in miracles, in virgin births and atoning deaths, than something so simple and basic as human solidarity.
