The F.B.I.’s New Approach to Combating Domestic Terrorism: Straight Talk
FBI agents are speaking fmore frankly at churches and other religious spaces about politically motivated violence.
Christian University Leaders Meet to Discuss How They Can Diversify Their Campuses
NEWBERG, Oregon (RNS) — About 300 Christian university presidents, human resources professionals, faculty and administrators attended the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities Diversity Conference Oct. 4-5, seeking ways to diversify their campuses.
How We Can Use the Current Crisis in Politics and Christianity to Reclaim Jesus
(RNS) — Christians, in other historical moments, have often remembered, rediscovered, returned and gone back to their obedient discipleship to Jesus Christ — both personal and public — in times of crisis. It’s called coming home.
In Some Christian Circles, a New #Oncegay Movement Makes a Comeback
(RNS) — Elizabeth Woning and Ken Williams have a simple message to LGBTQ people: God can radically transform their sexual orientation. At the same time, the ex-gay movement in Christian circles has never been more besieged or fragmented, and reparative therapy has been debunked.
Tennessee Baptist Leaders Recruiting Churches to Lobby for Abortion Ban
The Tennessee Baptist Convention launched an online petition July 23 to rally the state’s 3,000 Southern Baptist churches in support of legislation to ban abortion at all stages of pregnancy.
SBU Peer Assessment Committee Appointed
BOLIVAR, Mo. — As chair of Southwest Baptist University’s Peer Assessment Committee to discuss faith, learning and orthodoxy created in December, David Dockery has named five additional members of the committee in a Feb. 13 release by the school. The committee is part of a strategic