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Jemar Tisby will headline BNG event at CBF General Assembly

Historian and author Jemar Tisby will be the featured speaker at this year’s Baptist News Global gathering during the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship General Assembly. Tisby is a New York Times bestselling author, public historian and professor at Simmons College of…

Georgia Baptists hit snag on sale of 16-year-old headquarters property in suburban Atlanta

A state Baptist convention’s planned sale of its multi-million-dollar office building has hit a snag with county zoning officials. The Georgia Baptist Mission Board needs to sell its 40-acre property located in Gwinnett County, Ga., and it has a buyer…

In Atlanta, more denial of persistent racism

It has become increasingly evident that too many conservative evangelical Christians are actively engaged in a calamitous campaign of denial about the persistent nature of racism in our society. The recent mass murder of Asian women in the Atlanta area…

What kind of witness will the white Christian church give?

Recently I posted about re-encountering my white privilege on Facebook. I told a story about a meeting with a fellow dad from my daughter’s school and about my recognition that our lives were similar yet markedly different because of the…

CBF leader says Christians cannot be silent about racial injustice

Christians cannot remain silent about racial injustice, the leader of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship declared June 25.

It seemed like a good idea: Seminarian worships at up to 30 churches in months before first pastorate

William Reilly was in church quite a bit in the months before finishing seminary and becoming a Baptist pastor earlier this year. Normally, that wouldn’t be news. But in Reilly’s case it is because he worshiped at up to 30 different churches September to March. And many of them weren’t Baptist churches.