As the number of laid-off workers and hungry Americans continues to rise, even as farmers are having trouble marketing their crops, the ancient practice of gleaning is having a moment — fueled in part by faith communities.
Pro-Life Evangelicals for Biden’s 500 initial signatories included retired congregational pastors, professors, authors, and parachurch leaders but few with current pulpit ministries. The founding announcement ignited a firestorm among evangelical Trump supporters.
As religious services went online due to coronavirus, a paradox emerged: Worshipers were connected via the internet to a potentially wide community, but it felt like a more private affair. This is not the first time tensions between private worship and public expressions of religion
The Kansas-Nebraska Convention of Southern Baptists elected a new executive director Oct. 16. David Manner, associate state executive director since 2012 and on staff with the convention since 2000, will assume the role March 1.
Jeffrey Metzler, an undergraduate student at Southwest Baptist University, urges the Missouri Baptist Convention to stop its interference at his school. His column cites Word&Way news reports to document what is happening. Read full piece
When we see this type of fusion between some forms of Christianity with strong American identity, it brings to mind the historical connection between Christian nationalism and fascism. While that may sound hyperbolic to some, whether someone believes fascism is an urgent danger is largely
Russell Jackson writes: The Missouri Baptist Convention’s “procedural” change in Nominating Committee rules is a major shift in substantive policy that should be voted on by the messengers themselves, not done in a back room by the MBC’s Executive Committee.
Scientists announced Wednesday that they have found a mass grave in a city-owned cemetery blocks from the site of a 1921 race massacre. Read full piece
Over the past six months, there has been a lot of attention paid to ventilators, personal protective equipment, and the scarcity of them. The lack of these resources certainly puts a community in danger. But we also can’t overlook an equally deadly problem: misinformation.
Report from Baptist News Global, which cites Word&Way’s coverage of the SBU-MBC conflict. Read full piece