Graham Platner’s campaign to dethrone Susan Collins as one of Maine’s two senators has come to an abrupt end following allegations of sexual assault. In an 11-minute-long video on X, the progressive firebrand launched a combative defense calling the allegations...
As President Trump and his administration continue racialized policies and rhetoric, the question of how evangelicals of color will identify — how they manage their religious and racial identities — is becoming more fraught.
Connie Peterson is an accountant whose work requires a calculator, not a weapon. But she doesn’t go anywhere without her gun — not even to church.
Two dozen members of a progressive Baptist church in North Carolina followed the road from immigration court in Charlotte to a notorious ICE prison in Georgia during a two-day pilgrimage protesting the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance policy toward unauthorized border crossings…
When we genuinely pursue the common good with all the energy and vision we can summon, not only is a community transformed, but so are those who give themselves to the joyful work of justice. It is not only good for humanity, but God as well!
By Marv Knox Late Monday mornings, the foyer of Kingdom Manifesters International Ministries sounds like the United Nations. Children from all over—all over the world, not just all over their neighborhood—stream into the building. They laugh and talk, and many…
The term anti-blackness is relatively new. Some think it should replace racism and white privilege as the organizing concept for addressing the mistreatment of African Americans.
Has the idolization of the nuclear family stifled our imagination about how to live in Christian community? What might it look like to sleep, eat and organize our days around the communion built at the Eucharist table?
Bill Hybels built an iconic evangelical church outside Chicago. A former assistant says that in the 1980s, he sexually harassed her.
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The Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma reportedly agreed to implement steps improve the safety of thousands of youth attending annual summer camps in a confidential settlement of a lawsuit involving the rape of a 13-year-old girl.
Elaine Heath, dean of Duke Divinity School, left that job Thursday, according to a story published on the university’s website.
Ten years after founding Denver’s House for All Sinners and Saints as a 39-year-old seminary student, Nadia Boz-Weber has stepped down to explore life as a full-time “public theologian.”
