Once upon a time, Southern Baptists in Bible Belt communities knew how to talk to people who didn't go to church. "We were dealing with people who were, for the most part, like us," said Baptist ...
American democracy and democratized Christianity face a similar crisis of disunity. Several years ago, my eyes stopped on a two-panel cartoon that made me both laugh and grimace. The first had a ...
The vote at the Southern Baptist Convention raising alarms about in vitro fertilization began with two conservatives at a seminary in Kentucky. By Ruth Graham Ruth Graham, who writes about religion, ...
The Southern Baptist Convention rejected a proposal that would explicitly state that only men could be pastors. Does that mean that the SBC is changing and becoming more accepting of women in ...
The nation’s largest Negro church is the National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc. Its 5,000,000 members are fond of fervent gospel songs and sin-damning sermons, and show little interest in merging ...