Mallory Challis, a senior at Wingate University in North Carolina, has been named a Clemons Fellow with Baptist News Global for the fall semester. The fellowship is named for the founding supporters of BNG, then known as Associated Baptist Press,…
Bumgardner named spring Clemons Fellow for BNG
David Bumgardner of Fort Worth, Texas, has been named a Clemons Fellow with Baptist News Global for the spring semester 2022. He already is well-known to regular BNG readers as an opinion writer, having authored one of the most-read opinion…
Hayes named BNG Clemons Fellow
Amy Hayes of Atlanta has been named Baptist New Global’s third Clemons Fellow, continuing the launch of a graduate-level fellowship begun in June. Hayes is a master of divinity student at Mercer University’s McAfee School of Theology, where she also…
Desire to validate the Bible makes Christians easy prey for archaeological forgeries
The early morning air breathes hot on her face as archaeologist Cynthia Shafer-Elliott picks up her trowel to begin her work she describes as “not for the fainthearted.” Before her stands a mound of dirt, otherwise known as a “tel,”…
It’s past time to unearth and acknowledge our role in Native American boarding schools
Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced the United States will launch an initiative to search for possible burial sites at the former grounds of the federally created Native American boarding schools that forcibly removed thousands of children from their…
Lessons learned during the pandemic as a parent who found joy in the desert
Months ago, we sat around the wooden table in our booth, enjoying our food and reminding our kids to be mindful of the other customers around us. With five kids under the age of 10, it isn’t an everyday experience…
BNG names Ellis and Pidcock as Clemons Fellows
A Baptist News Global internship program named for the late Ardelle and Hardy Clemons will become a graduate-level fellowship this summer. Laura Ellis and Rick Pidcock have been named BNG’s first Clemons Fellows and will serve 10 weeks this summer…