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‘Nobody in their right mind’ would do what this peace activist has done

The Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America has grown a lot since its founding in 1984. Its focus over the years has expanded from poverty and nuclear proliferation to racial justice, gun violence and immigration, among other issues. And a…

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JUSTSEX plenary speaker will draw on long career focused on sexuality, sex education

“We don’t talk a lot about sex. There’s a lot of secretiveness. I hope that the JUSTSEX conference will get people more comfortable talking about sexuality issues and (help them) come up with good problem-solving skills.”

Evangelicals’ embrace of Donald Trump may cost them the future

Religious right leaders are driving people out of the pews with their hypocritical defenses of Donald Trump.

Why the US and Turkey are fighting over a US pastor

“Washington’s been doing the right things on the Brunson case for kind of the wrong reasons,” an expert says.

The best day of our lives suddenly became the worst: lessons about ministering to people in crisis

After four years of battling infertility and other challenges, our long-awaited baby arrived healthy and whole. Then the nightmare began, and the caregiver became the care receiver. Here are some things I learned about caring for people in the worst moments of their lives.

Peace Committee chair Charles Fuller dead at 86

Charles Fuller, the Virginia pastor chosen to lead the failed Peace Committee established to reconcile clashing factions in the Southern Baptist Convention in the mid-1980s, died July 28 at age 86. Fuller, pastor of First Baptist Church in Roanoke, Virginia,…

Pompeo issues declaration calling for world governments to prioritize religious freedom

The Potomac Declaration and an accompanying plan of action were released at the inaugural Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom conference in Washington, D.C.

Sessions announces ‘religious liberty task force’

Attorney General Jeff Sessions says the cultural climate has become less hospitable to people of faith, and as a result many Americans feel their freedom to practice their faith is under attack.

Months of violence leave Nicaraguan Christians on edge

Three months of violent crackdowns against anti-government protestors have put Nicaragua’s evangelical Christians in a precarious place, according to e-mails from a Baptist in the country forwarded by an American friend requesting anonymity. About 400 people have died in just…

My close encounters with Southern Baptist hell

Southern Baptists’ carrot-and-stick evangelistic strategy was perfectly suited to a denomination that was born defending slavery, that came of age in a season of Jim Crow segregation, and that had spent the previous 20 years dismissing the civil rights movement as a communist plot. If the Southern Baptist hell was real, evangelism must be the first and only mission of the church.

They ministered – and were ministered to – on the field of competition

Ministry can mean feeding the hungry, praying with the sick or visiting the imprisoned. But it can also mean coaching a basketball team, organizing track-and-field events or cheering on a child-athlete. At least it does for people of faith who…

Matthew Vines sets off a debate over what it means to be ‘queer’

Dear Mike Johnson, be careful what you ask for

What, to the white Christian, is America 250?

Four years later, anti-abortionists battle on other fronts