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While the plan to split the mainline Protestant denomination over its disagreement about the ordination and marriage of LGBTQ United Methodists will likely still be considered at the next General Conference meeting, wavering support for the protocol leaves the church either imagining a new way forward or plunging into chaos, depending on whom you ask.
Texas megachurch Pastor Matt Chandler weighed in on the overturning of Roe v Wade in a sermon Sunday, stressing that while celebrating life is good, it s the responsibility of the Church to support ...
The United States' birthday is just around the corner and, along with it, an old debate about just how American churches should celebrate. For most
For 25 years, Team Yeats (Sharon and I) sat at the Recording Secretary’s desk to record the proceedings of the Southern Baptist Annual Meeting. We both agree, it’s been an honor to serve and to work with some of Southern Baptists’ finest servants. John Yeats One thing the Recording Secretary…
When we look at our lives, we must be thankful and acknowledge how God’s grace is present through every moment. God’s grace pervades in our birth story, in protecting us in our teenage years, in the disciplining of our sins, in His felt presence in our trials and suffering.
SAN DIEGO (BP) –Serving in the military is “noble and good,” says Justin Woods, but it’s not enough for some of the midshipmen at the 4,400-student U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. A cadre of the 150 students involved with Baptist Collegiate Ministries at the Naval Academy have been going…
A Black Baptist preacher in Dallas, Texas, offered a fiery call at the general assembly of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship for Christians to engage in social justice even if they get attacked for being “heretics.” Rev. Dr. Frederick D. Haynes, III, senior pastor of Friendship-West Baptist Church, offered the keynote address at the CBF racial justice luncheon.
Steve Walter, the pastor of First Baptist Church in Forrest City, Arkansas, publicly apologized Tuesday after a black woman alleged that she and her family experienced discrimination from two ...
A Presbyterian Church USA committee has passed a resolution declaring Israel an apartheid state at its General Assembly Tuesday
In defiance of some U.S. bishops, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi reportedly received communion during a mass presided over by Pope Francis on Wednesday for the celebration of the feast of St. Peter and Paul. The Catholic congresswoman is banned from receiving the sacrament in four U.S. dioceses due to her abortion rights stance.
