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Easter’s secular trappings are over for another year. Sally Forth has bitten the ears off the chocolate bunny in her comic strip, baskets have been put away, and the plastic grass has just about all come out of the carpet.

And Easter

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Southern Baptist jailed in Haiti to stand trial on reduced charge

April 27, 2010

author: brandon

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (ABP) -- Southern Baptist mission volunteer Laura Silsby will stand trial in Haiti on a charge of arranging irregular travel, CNN reported April 26.

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Obama shifts tactics on outreach to Muslim world

April 27, 2010

author: Jennifer Harris

WASHINGTON (RNS) -- Nearly a year after President Obama told an audience in Cairo that America wanted a “new beginning” with the Muslim world, evidence of that policy shift has, in recent weeks, become hard to ignore.

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Faith leaders pan Arizona ‘anti-immigrant’ bill

April 27, 2010

author: Jennifer Harris

WASHINGTON (RNS) -- Religious leaders are outraged over a bill passed by Arizona legislators that criminalizes illegal immigration, calling the bill “anti-immigrant” and a “social sin.”

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Obama meets with Billy Graham

April 26, 2010

author: brandon

MONTREAT, N.C. (ABP) -- President Obama met Billy Graham for the first time face-to-face April 25, making him the 12th consecutive U.S. president to meet with the famed Southern Baptist evangelist.

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Word&Way released from MBC litigation

April 23, 2010

author: brandon

Word&Way has been dismissed from Missouri Baptist Convention litigation that has stretched over nearly eight years.

The convention, through its attorneys, filed a document in Cole County Circuit Court on April 23 voluntarily releasing the news journal from all claims against it.

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Deep water dilemma: Can Baptists agree on baptism? (Shurden quotes)

April 23, 2010

author: Jennifer Harris

Baptists -- always a diverse lot -- increasingly take a variety of stances when it comes to baptism and church membership.

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Analysis: Should Baptist churches adopt open membership? Yes.

April 22, 2010

author: brandon

Perhaps the time has come for Baptists today to ask in the same spirit whether or not Methodists, Catholics, Presbyterians and others who are genuinely committed disciples of Jesus Christ are true Christians and have been accepted by the grace of the Triune God into

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Analysis: Should Baptist churches adopt open membership? No.

April 22, 2010

author: brandon

Should Baptist churches be encouraged to adopt open membership, or are there good reasons for not doing so? I would like to offer five of the latter.

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Churches try varied ways to approach question of membership and baptism

April 22, 2010

author: brandon

Baptism and local church membership have been inextricably linked historically in the minds of many Baptists. But that view is shifting as a decline in denominational loyalty and the easy movement of American Christians among churches of all stripes have created what writer Phyllis Tickle

169. Grace Ji-Sun Kim on When God Became White

Grace Ji-Sun Kim, a professor of theology at Earlham School of Religion, talks with Word&Way President Brian Kaylor about her new book When God Became White: Dismantling Whiteness for a More Just Christianity. She also discusses issues of racism, patriarchy, and Christian Nationalism. She previously appeared on episode 145. She writes a Substack newsletter and…
168. Drew Strait on Strange Worship

Drew Strait, a New Testament professor at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary, talks with Word&Way President Brian Kaylor about his new book Strange Worship: Six Steps for Challenging Christian Nationalism. He also discusses issues of strategic nonviolence, empathy, and suspicion of state power. Note: Don't forget to subscribe to our award-winning e-newsletter A Public Witness that…
167. Bekah McNeel on This is Going to Hurt

Journalist and author Bekah McNeel talks with Word&Way President Brian Kaylor about her new book This Is Going to Hurt: Following Jesus in a Divided America. She also discusses addressing issues of immigration, education, and guns. She previously appeared on episode 70. Note: Don't forget to subscribe to our award-winning e-newsletter A Public Witness that…
166. Michael Austin on American Christian Nationalism

Michael Austin, a philosophy professor at Eastern Kentucky University and Bonhoeffer Senior Fellow of the Miller Center for Interreligious Learning and Leadership of Hebrew College, talks with Word&Way President Brian Kaylor about his new book American Christian Nationalism: Neither American nor Christian. He also discusses American values, teachings of Jesus, and the co-option of Dietrich…

Familiar places may have secret messages

Southern Baptist jailed in Haiti to stand trial on reduced charge

Obama shifts tactics on outreach to Muslim world

Faith leaders pan Arizona ‘anti-immigrant’ bill

Obama meets with Billy Graham

Word&Way released from MBC litigation

Deep water dilemma: Can Baptists agree on baptism? (Shurden quotes)

Analysis: Should Baptist churches adopt open membership? Yes.

Analysis: Should Baptist churches adopt open membership? No.

Churches try varied ways to approach question of membership and baptism

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