Years before being suspected of killing eight people in a suburb of Atlanta, including six Asian women, Robert Aaron Long was active in his Southern Baptist congregation, his youth pastor said Wednesday.Read full piece
Wendell Griffen: We need – in addition to such symbolic gestures – more people who are committed each day to confronting racism. We need more people to confront, denounce and condemn others, including civic and cultural leaders, who use racism and power based on racism to inflict
Pro-immigrant groups applauded a March 8 decision by the Biden administration to protect some 320,000 Venezuelans in the United States under a temporary immigration program.Read full piece
America’s second-ever Catholic president supports abortion rights, leaving the bishops unsure about how to move forward. Read full piece
New survey reached students attending colleges with policies that restrict students from exploring their LGBTQ+ identities.Read full piece
The highest court in Massachusetts ruled this month that a social work professor at a nondenominational Christian college is not a “minister,” meaning she may proceed with a discrimination suit against the college. Meanwhile, a Baptist university in Missouri claims a faculty member and student
House Majority Whip James Clyburn on Wednesday blasted Sen. Lindsey Graham over his comments that aid to Black farmers in the Covid-19 relief bill are "reparations" and called for his fellow South Carolinian to get back in touch with Christianity.Read full piece
As religious faith has declined, ideological intensity has risen. Will the quest for secular redemption through politics doom the American idea? Read full piece
In the decades surrounding Baylor University’s founding, Texas Baptists reflected the prevailing culture — including support for slavery, three historians agreed during an online forum sponsored by the university.Read full piece
Popular Bible teacher Beth Moore may be the most high-profile Southern Baptist to publicly cut ties with the conservative evangelical denomination in the last year, but she is not the only one to go.Read full piece