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Heart surgery sidelines American Baptist leader

American Baptist Churches USA is under interim leadership as General Secretary Lee Spitzer recovers from heart surgery. Spitzer, head of the 1.3 million-member ABCUSA since 2017, underwent aortic valve replacement and triple bypass surgery on Sept. 8. He came from…

North Carolina’s problem isn’t Florence, it’s poverty

The floodplains read like maps of inequality and race.

Misogyny, hypocrisy, and the Brett Kavanaugh SCOTUS confirmation process

In short, the issue is whether the nation deserves an impartial investigation concerning an allegation of juvenile misogyny, and whether that conduct, if it occurred, should somehow be excused decades later when the alleged misogynist is a candidate for a…

Americans’ approval of Pope Francis drops to 53% amid more church sex abuse revelations

In September 2015, according to Gallup, about 70 percent of Americans felt favorably about the pope. That number declined only slightly to 66 percent by early August.

Germany’s faith-based sanctuary activists have created a national movement

But it’s under growing pressure from politicians waging war on the right to asylum.

Interim IMB president says investigation into handling of abuse allegations will continue

An independent, outside review of the Southern Baptist Convention International Mission Board’s past handling of abuse allegations announced in July by IMB President David Platt will continue after he leaves the post next week, officials confirmed Sept. 20. Platt, who…

Not instruction, but provocation: listening to the ‘taught’

Across four decades, listening to students (“those who are taught”) has provoked me to action and insight I might otherwise have dodged. When students have moved classes from instruction to provocation, I’ve not only been awakened, I’ve often been reborn.

Preacher Franklin Graham claims Brett Kavanaugh abuse allegation is irrelevant

The son of the late Billy Graham said that even if Christine Blasey Ford’s allegation of sexual assault is true, it shouldn’t matter.

A disgraced evangelical leader returns to ministry after #MeToo. He won’t be the last.

Paige Patterson gave a sermon about a false rape accusation.

Transitions for the week of 9-21-18

Please submit transitions — including staff changes, ordinations, anniversaries or deaths — to Barbara Francis. This page will be updated weekly. STAFF CHANGES Carolyn Allen, to First Baptist Church, Barnard, Kansas, as pastor. Joseph Anaman, to Community Church, Milton, N.H.,…

Pastor’s traffic stop prompts talk of racial profiling in Kentucky city

Black and white clergy in Louisville, Kentucky, called for a formal review of police policies after a respected ministry colleague was pulled over Saturday night for what some view as the American slang term for racial profiling “driving while black.”…

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