• Letters: National healing; CBF and biblical authority

  Letters this week deal with Baptist response to racial discrimination in America and the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s stand on biblical authority.

• Letter: Little hope for SBC awakening

  A letter writer questions how the Southern Baptist Convention can achieve “awakening” without self-examination.

• Letters: Confederate flag, Old North/Union Church, awakening

  This week’s letters focus on the Confederate battle flag, the name of a church and the Southern Baptist Convention’s plea for “awakening”

• Letters: Confederate flag, evolution

  Readers oppose the Southern Baptist Convention’s resolution against the Confederate battle flag.

• Letters: Briles, Trump, Starr, handguns, Muslims

  Letters this week focus on Art Briles, who was fired as Baylor University’s football coach; Donald Trump, whose followers include some Southern Baptists; Ken Starr, who was fired as Baylor’s president; and handguns

• Letters: Tributes to Lynn Craft, Golden Gate Seminary

  Writers express gratitude for the life and ministry of Lynn Craft and for the ministry-training platform of Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary

• Letter: Vote to “further God’s purpose”

  “Social injustice and immigration reform can only be addressed when the lives of the most innocent are protected first.”

• Letters: Baylor, voting, education

  Letters this week include commentary on the sexual abuse scandal at Baylor University, as well as editorials on Texas’ school-funding system and Christian voting.

• Letter: Need to know the whole story

  Reader challenges editor to examine “what’s even more immoral” about public education and the Texas Legislature.

• Letters: Politics, politics, politics, politics, pope

  Loud on Trump; quiet on Clinton I’m pretty tired of the apparently liberal Baptist Standard feeling that this anything negative about Trump is worthy of news is worthy of news…

• Letter: “Flags are not racist; people are”

  I have prayed about responding to the Southern Baptist Convention condemning the Confederate Flag. Does the SBC think this symbolic gesture will actually bring healing to the SBC and our…

• Letters: The challenge of same-sex weddings to religious freedom

  Regarding “A conversation about ‘religious liberty’ laws and freedom”: Thank you for diving deep into the confusing and nuanced layers of these issues. While I agree with your opinions for…