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...
Yet, just a year since the violence in Charlottesville at the hands of white supremacists, the reality of persistent racism—individual and systemic—simply cannot be denied.
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.,…
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.”…
Convincing Millennials to join churches is no easy task. Ask any minister. But Brent McDougal, the senior pastor at Cliff Temple Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas, has assigned himself an arguably even harder task: convincing young adults to bring their…
The form keeps shifting, but the outcome has remained constant for generations. Those on the bottom of the hierarchy have calamity visited upon body and spirit and household. The trouble – racism, greed, violence – crushes people.
Minnesota state senator John Marty, son of religion scholar Martin Marty, says the government-sanctioned national motto “devalues and cheapens our religion.”
The genre has been disdained by the church and mocked by secular culture. That just reassured practitioners that they were rebels on a righteous path.
A Cooperative Baptist Fellowship pastor in Dallas criticized white churches for not speaking up alongside blacks demanding justice in the killing of an African-American man in his own apartment by a white police officer. On Sunday George Mason, senior pastor…
Surely life is far more interesting and faithful if we explore how this world works and our spiritual place within it, especially the relationship between divine and human agency.
The former first daughter spoke during a Sirius XM radio show about her thoughts on Roe v. Wade.
The German pastor behind the historic “then they came for me” confession famously opposed Hitler — eventually.
Beth Moore grew her flock by teaching scripture to women—and being deferential to men. Now her outspokenness on sexism could cost her everything.
