White conservative Christian men are rising up all over the nation to take their place at the top of their families, churches and communities. We’re witnessing their rise to power through the Rededicate 250 events where men like Mark Driscoll called on...
Two new movies are shining a much-needed spotlight on the practice of gay “conversion therapy,” also known as the attempt to change the sexual orientation or gender expression of LGBTQ individuals.
There are reasons to be dubious about these allegations put forward by culture warrior Carlo Maria Viganò, a Benedict XVI ally.
The main characters’ struggle to balance cultural differences and their love for each other hit close to home for my husband, Paul, and me. I felt the mother’s heart, just like I felt my mom and dad’s hearts when I told them I wanted to marry Paul, a poor, Caucasian missionary kid.
On the outside, many of the Texas communities ravaged by Hurricane Harvey last year appear to making a comeback. But on the inside, some survivors say, the emotional rebuilding is only just beginning.
A memorial service for Sen. John McCain – the former POW, three-decade senator from Arizona and two-time presidential candidate who died Aug 25 from brain cancer – is scheduled this week at a Southern Baptist megachurch that he attended for…
The longtime Arizona Republican senator viewed himself as a Christian but had “a distrust of the religious right and a faith that is too public, too political.”
With one of the most contentious symbols of the Confederacy as a backdrop, thousands of people gathered at Stone Mountain on Saturday and called for an end to racism and hatred.
Sunday morning is becoming an increasingly divided time in America. “If Sunday morning was the most segregated morning in American life, it may also be one of the most politicized hours in American life, implicitly or explicitly,” said Bill Leonard,…
While the Church’s core message will never change, the methodologies for practicing our faith will be in a constant state of change for the rest of our life. The changes we will go through in our near future will make our squabbles over matters such as new technology or screens in the sanctuary look laughable.
The vice president’s speeches about space sometimes sound like sermons. They draw on a long tradition of evangelical thinking about cosmic exploration.
In the first chapel service since trustees forced out President Paige Patterson, the interim president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary urged students to model virtues of self-denial, deference and service. “The cross just doesn’t do something for you; the cross…
Ongoing revelations regarding sexual abuse in the Christian Church mean that we’d all better prepare our hearts – spiritually, individually and communally – with the courage of conscience to live and act in a Church and a country that is losing its bearings.
