How Shall We Decide?
The “wisdom” of Proverbs is not clever sayings, but a call to obviously different values and actions. Faith in God is never a road to success, but a lifestyle of generosity and compassion based on God's grace.
America’s First Gun Violence Prevention Minister to Involve Churches
Rev. Deanna Hollas has been appointed gun violence prevention minister by the largest Presbyterian denomination in the United States.
How Ferguson Widened an Enormous Rift Between Black Christians and White Evangelicals
Remembering Michael Brown on the five-year anniversary of his killing in Ferguson, Mo., would be incomplete without acknowledging the impact that this tragedy had on race relations within American evangelicalism.
Why Southern Baptists’ Social Justice Spat Is Actually About the Sufficiency of Scripture
Fallout over the "By What Standard?" trailer released by the Founders Ministries points to a key difference among conservative Southern Baptists: How much they are willing to learn from elements of secular ideologies, versus rejecting them outright?
Church Models Low-Cost, Replicable Homeless Ministry
EL CAJON, Calif. (BP) -- On a vacant lot at Slade's senior pastorate Meridian Baptist Church in El Cajon, Calif., a tiny cabin is being built as an emergency, secure shelter for homeless women and children.
‘Red Sea Diving Resort’ Dramatizes Israel’s Daring Rescue of Ethiopian Jews
(RNS) — A daredevil operation by Israel's secret service to rescue more than 8,000 Ethiopian Jews from Sudanese refugee camps in the early 1980s has become “The Red Sea Diving Resort" on Netflix.
Just Like Political Parties, Religious Groups See Their Rivals as Extremists
(RNS) — Looking at the data from the 2018 Cooperative Congressional Election Study, if someone labels themself personally as at the edge of the political spectrum, are they more likely to place the opposing party in an extreme political position?
From Crossfire to the Cross
MEMPHIS (BP)-- Ronnie Johnson, pastor of Miracle of Redemption Church, Memphis, has been shot four times and stabbed seven times. "Of course I shot other folks too," the former Gangster Disciples member said.
We Must Stop Crossing By On The Other Side
We are a nation led by people crossing by on the other side of the road.
From New York to Alabama, Blacks Worshipped in Own Spaces Before Slavery’s End
NEW YORK (RNS) — On a narrow street in Harlem sits the oldest black church in New York state, one of many black congregations that developed in the decades before slavery ended nationwide and that worked for its abolition.