Thou Shalt Not … Amend the State Constitution?
This issue of A Public Witness takes you inside a hyperpartisan church for a taste of how the gospel of Jesus is being supplanted by an imperial lust for political power.
Church & Ministries
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BCM opens heart, doors for college student-turned missionary | Baptist Press
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (BP) – As a kid, Asleigh Wilson certainly had no plans to work in missions, but through Calvary Baptist Church and the Baptist Campus Ministry (BCM) at Middle Tennessee State University, God captured this first-generation college student’s heart for Him. Now graduated, she plans to spend her life…
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FIRST-PERSON: Be ready | Baptist Press
EL CAJON, Calif. (BP) – Today we’re one day closer to the Rapture of the Church.
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Dallas church bringing Gospel to thousands through food ministry | Baptist Press
DALLAS (BP) – For Johnnie Bradley, pastor of Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church for the past 16 years, the struggles of the pandemic meant increased opportunities to share the Gospel by expanding the church’s longtime Messiah Ministry outreach.
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Kentucky Pastor Helps over 300 Residents Traumatized by Deadly Flooding
When rain waters that seemed heavier than usual began to fall in eastern Kentucky roughly two weeks ago, Pastor Brad Stevens of the Church of God Worship Center in Clay County said he wasn t afraid
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Chad Veach Shares How Prayer ‘grounded’ Family amid Daughter’s Devastating Diagnosis
Chad Veach, the pastor of Zoe Church in Los Angeles, California, weighs in on some of the biggest reasons even professing Christians don t pray and how to combat this trend In an interview, he opened ...
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Progressive National Baptists, AFL-CIO Reunite for Midterms Voter Initiative
A predominantly Black denomination and prominent union have joined forces in a new voter mobilization initiative ahead of the midterm elections. Reviving a partnership they had in the 1960s, the laborlab Convention and the AFL-CIO are launching a faith and labor alliance focused on battleground states.
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How Did Song of Solomon Get into the Bible Anyway? – RELEVANT
There is a certain type of Christian — usually a man — who’s very proud of the fact that Bible has one book in it wholly devoted to sex. Give this guy a
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Is the Bible Sexist? Young Adult Pastor Shares Why Women are Called ‘weaker’ Partners in Scripture
A young adult pastor with an influential Texas church has critiqued the claim that the Bible is sexist against women, arguing that a biblical Christian understanding of women is superior to the ...
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Why the Largest US Lutheran Denomination Apologized to a Latino Congregation
When the Rev. Megan Rohrer was elected bishop of the ELCA’s Sierra Pacific Synod in 2021, the election was celebrated as a revolution in and outside of the denomination. But what followed is a "perfect storm" of charismatic personalities and a heightened awareness of racism, all brewing in one of the country’s whitest denominations.
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Texas Megachurch with 14K Members Votes to Leave UMC amid Homosexuality Schism
A Texas megachurch has voted to disaffiliate from The United Methodist Church due to the mainline Protestant denomination s ongoing debate over homosexuality as over 200 churches in the Lone Star ...
