The coronavirus and ongoing racial tensions are sending clergy stress levels skyrocketing, ministers and health experts say. Emily Holladay, the pastor at Village Baptist Church in Bowie, Maryland, recommends pastors tap into outside sources of help to combat stress.
Elected by Central Seminary’s board of trustees in February after a yearlong nationwide search, Dr. Pam Durso began her new role as the seminary's 11th president on June 1.
From "The Birth of a Nation," the 1915 silent movie some historians blame for a resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan, to Spike Lee’s "BlacKkKlansman" more than 100 years later, movies have reflected and shaped Americans’ attitudes toward race, said Baylor University professor Greg Garrett.
COVID-19 has created an avalanche of death, disease, suffering, and uncertainty. One helpful coping device is to find the positives in the midst of all the tragedy. I sat down recently and listed some takeaways. See if you can relate.
“No justice, no peace.” It was only a few minutes, though, before a handful in the crowd of Brooklyn protesters mirrored the cadence, but substituted choice curse words of their own. That didn’t last long. “That’s not our movement!” a bystander in the crowd shouted.
Leaders of the North American Baptist Fellowship and the Baptist World Alliance on Wednesday (June 3) issued a statement lamenting and decrying racial injustices and unrest in the United States.
Launching an innovative ministry center in metro Detroit has been quite a roller coaster ride for Sue Hodnett and her volunteer ministry team. “We know that if we touch the life of a woman, most of the time we’re touching the life of a whole
Religious freedom is a wedge issue among politicians in this pandemic, but not among Americans, including believers.
Cloaking himself in religion for the second day in a row, President Donald Trump sought to seize the moral authority to justify his hard line against demonstrators protesting the killing of another black man in police custody and at the same time mobilize his religious conservative base.
It played out like a scene straight out of Isaiah 6. Apocalyptic, vision-like stuff. But then the script changed.