Walking The (Catholic) Plank
Why doesn't my Catholic Church get its own house in order first? Get the plank/log/boulder/semi truck/elephant out of its own eye before it tries to remove a speck from another's eye?
Why doesn't my Catholic Church get its own house in order first? Get the plank/log/boulder/semi truck/elephant out of its own eye before it tries to remove a speck from another's eye?
Jonathan Merritt | Posted 04.18.2012
Below the surface, the largest Protestant denomination in North America still has serious race problems, proving once again that old paradigms die hard.
AP | TRAVIS LOLLER | Posted 04.15.2012
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The head of the Southern Baptist Convention's public policy arm condemns the response of many black leaders to the Trayvon Martin ...
Reverend William E. Flippin, Jr. | Posted 04.10.2012
I am hopeful that based on the efforts of church planting in the major cities of New York even in alternative life-style communities is a sign that the Southern Baptist Convention is reassessing its policies of exclusion.
Taylors-Wade Hampton Patch | Andrew Moore and Reily Moore | Posted 12.19.2011
The new president of the S.C. Baptist Convention, a part of the Southern Baptist Convention (the largest religious group in the state with nearly 1,90...
Ben Stevens | Posted 01.23.2012
Groups like the Southern Baptist Convention and Campus Crusade are ready to move past the poor names that have defined them in the past. But how we should receive these name changes?
HuffingtonPost.com | Jaweed Kaleem | Posted 12.08.2011
The debate over whether a largely Protestant nation is uneasy with a potential Mormon president was reignited this week after back-to-back attacks on ...
Jonathan Merritt | Posted 11.30.2011
But the greatest reason for a change in name for the Southern Baptist Convention could be the need to break with its past and embrace an increasingly multi-ethnic reality in America.
Christian Piatt | Posted 11.21.2011
For many who accept gender parity as the norm in contemporary culture, debates such as this appear quaint or even irrelevant. But the tension lingers over the role of women in church.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jaweed Kaleem | Posted 11.07.2011
UPDATE 9/7/11:Prominent liberal Christians are joining the chorus of protest over the lack of clergy participating in the Sept. 11 memorial ceremony o...
Rev. Susan Sparks | Posted 10.12.2011
I remember telling a vacation bible school teacher that "I was trying to decide between being a minister or a jet pilot." She smiled and said, "Well, girls can be jet pilots, but God only calls men to preach."
AP | TRAVIS LOLLER | Posted 08.30.2011
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A Southern Baptist Convention leader says the group's policy arm supports a version of the DREAM Act – the proposed law...
Posted 08.28.2011
By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service (RNS) Officials of the Southern Baptist Convention say they were the victims of a hoax in which a group c...
Posted 08.20.2011
By Bruce Nolan Religion News Service NEW ORLEANS (RNS) Even before the Southern Baptist Convention elected the Rev. Fred Luter to national office, th...
Posted 08.15.2011
By Adelle M. Banks c. 2011 Religion News Service (RNS) Southern Baptists on Wednesday (June 14) called hell an "eternal, conscious punishment" for...
AP | By TERRY TANG and TRAVIS LOLLER | Posted 08.15.2011
PHOENIX -- Members of the Southern Baptist Convention elected an African-American pastor to its No. 2 position for the first time on Tuesday, signifyi...
Posted 08.15.2011
By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service (RNS) Southern Baptists meeting in Phoenix adopted a plan Tuesday (June 14) to try to boost minorities in th...
Wayne Besen | Posted 08.14.2011
The SBC likes to portray its position on homosexuality as an unchangeable moral absolute. The facts, however, show that the SBC has changed its positions on minorities before.
AP | By TRAVIS LOLLER | Posted 08.13.2011
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The man expected to be in the running to become the first African-American in the No. 2 position of the nation's largest Protestan...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jaweed Kaleem | Posted 02.21.2012
Baptisms in the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation's largest Protestant denomination, have dipped to their lowest point in 60 years, according to...
Belmar, NJ Patch | Posted 07.20.2011
William (Will) Franklin Graham IV is the grandson of Billy Graham and the son of Franklin Graham. Graham is an associate evangelist at Billy Graham Ev...
Jennifer Danielle Crumpton | Posted 05.25.2011
Women have little to hold to in scripture by way of positive accounts of the female experience. I believe this is less an effect of God's inspiration and more a lack of human imagination.
Brad Hirschfield | Posted 05.25.2011
Like all strike outs, there will always be a later opportunity to step up to the plate, but for now, Mr. Huckabee should be sitting in the dugout reflecting on just how wrong he got it.
Posted 05.25.2011
By Richard Yeakley Religion News Service While mainline Protestant churches in the U.S. continue to experience decades-long decline, the memberships ...
Posted 05.26.2011
By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service (RNS) A top leader of the Southern Baptist Convention has resigned from a new interfaith coalition, saying s...
Sarah O'Leary | Posted 04.27.2012