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These were our most-read news articles of 2024
2 days ago · Divergent theological beliefs about a failed assassination of Donald Trump, a new way of connecting United Methodist pastors with their new congregations and warnings about Christian nationalism from the family of Dietrich Bonhoeffer were among the most-read Baptist News Global news stories in 2024.. Other highly read articles reported on the sexual abuse controversies involving former ...
Breaking news: SBC will vote on three explosive motions …
Three new and potentially explosive issues will come up for a vote by messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting Wednesday, June 12.. That will happen before the convention considers another highly controversial matter carried over from last year — a second reading of the so-called Law Amendment that would codify a total ban on SBC churches ordaining women, allowing women ...
In Helene’s path, churches swing into action with relief ministries
Helene tore a path of destruction from the Big Bend area of Florida, where it made landfall Sept. 26 as a Category 4 hurricane, on through parts of Georgia, East Tennessee, South and North Carolina and Virginia. At least 119 people were killed in the storm that brought massive flooding and wind damage to stunned urban and rural areas throughout the six states.
SBC president urges churches considering leaving to ‘press pause’
Aug 14, 2023 · The president of the Southern Baptist Convention has urged churches considering leaving the SBC to “press pause” until they hear from a new task force on cooperation that has not yet been named and will have less than nine months to work.. Meanwhile, anecdotal reports are circulating about large numbers of churches either leaving the SBC or being reported to the SBC Credentials Committee ...
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Two days before Christmas, President Joe Biden commuted the death sentences of 37 of the 40 inmates remaining on federal Death Row. The action follows an organized campaign by death penalty opponents — including some evangelicals — asking Biden to…
Yes, there’s a double standard but Biden still must leave the 2024 …
President Joe Biden’s news conference at the conclusion of the NATO summit tonight wasn’t the train wreck of his debate two weeks ago, but it did nothing to assuage his friends who believe he should not run for reelection.. What we saw and heard tonight was an old white man defending his legacy and believing he alone can save America from disaster.
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A suburban Houston school district has banned 34 books this fall in a show of force by trustees supported by a coalition of Christian nationalist advocacy groups that has ties to a former Southern Baptist pastor in Houston.
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Oct 6, 2024 · In early September, I returned from a visit to Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank. Led by the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center, my visit was part of a multifaith delegation of Jewish, Muslim, Christian, Quaker, Buddhist and Hindu clergy, activists, educators and journalists bearing witness to the yearlong destruction of Gaza and the decades-long occupation of Palestinians that ...