Opinion - Baptist News Global
WEBAs the 2024 election season winds its painfully polarized way to another American election day, among the most volatile issues in the fractious orbit of political conversation are border security and immigration. As a public policy question, immigration is …
Why being transgender is not a sin - Baptist News Global
WEBNov 9, 2018 · Transgender identity is about who a person is. It’s not about who they love or what actions they take that might be sinful in the sense that we all sin. It is about their fundamental being as humans created by God in God’s image – an image that God has declared to be good.
Crash-course in Bible history: How the Bible came to be
WEBFeb 14, 2023 · Crash-course in Bible history: How the Bible came to be. What is the Bible? Christians may think of the Bible as the “word of God,” a guidebook for life, a book of stories or sayings that teach spiritual lessons about what it means to be a human. As kids, we may have thought of it as those hard-covered books sitting on the backs of church pews.
Baptist News Global – Conversations that matter
WEBNorth Carolina Baptist association sends out letter calling Democrats Marxists. The director of missions for a Southern Baptist association in Eastern North Carolina sent a letter to all pastors of churches in Onslow County urging them to compel their members to vote for “biblical values” in this year’s presidential election…. News Mark ...
Faithful America inducts 12 more into its ‘false prophets’ hall of fame
WEBNov 6, 2023 · Mike Johnson is one of 12 “false prophets” highlighted this year by Faithful America, the organization behind the “ False Prophets Don’t Speak for Me ” campaign. The 12 new inductees into the hall of fame for promoting Christian nationalism join 20 “false prophets” named by the group last fall. Christian nationalism is a political ...
After 30 years, the NRSV gets an update: Here’s what that means
WEBMar 15, 2022 · The update is significant, in part, because the NRSV is a preferred translation for many biblical scholars, seminaries, and mainline and progressive Protestant churches.
10 things we’re learning about the LGBTQ debate in the church
WEBFeb 13, 2018 · Our congregation went through 18 months of intense study, prayer and dialogue about LGBTQ inclusion, and we have the scars to show for it. And we would have had scars regardless of which way the decision went. But we are better for choosing the good over the easy.
Franklin Graham, toxic charity concerns send churches packing …
WEBNov 6, 2019 · Years of viral news articles describing Operation Christmas Child as a form of toxic charity have contributed to a movement of churches away from the Samaritan’s Purse ministry.
I asked people why they’re leaving Christianity, and here’s what I ...
WEBDec 13, 2022 · I asked people why they’re leaving Christianity, and here’s what I heard. For some time now, Christianity has been on the decline. According to a September 2022 Pew study, people identifying as Christian have decreased from 90% of the U.S. population in 1972 to 64% in 2020. But it’s not just researchers who are talking about this.
Kinzinger’s journey: From religious fundamentalism to political ...
WEBNov 1, 2023 · Adam Kinzinger learned all about religious fundamentalism growing up at Calvary Baptist Church in Normal, Ill., and other independent fundamental Baptist congregations that practiced separation from the world, prohibited worldly pleasures and provided plentiful rules that freed true believers “from the burden of decision making.” Kinzinger attempted mini-rebellions, such as wearing shorts ...