Nancy Ammerman, a longtime analyst of Baptists and religious life in the United States, sees enduring lessons for the United Methodist Church today from the Southern Baptist Convention battles of the 1980s.

“I am not dispassionate about abortion. I hold to a very conservative view of Scripture and the sovereignty of God and thus firmly declare the sanctity of life.” A Baptist Standard reader and pastor responds to Joshua Sharp’s op-ed.

All of us should understand that a free press is a sacred trust. At its best, robust journalism is a bulwark against corruption in high places, a check against the abuse of power and a vehicle to report on the good and the beautiful in a broken world.

Christians know of one of the most important migrant caravans in history—the people of Israel leaving Egypt for the Promised Land. What do we know about migrant caravans today? Kathryn Freeman provides some facts.

Immigration is a current hot topic. As a caravan of migrants finishes its long trip through Mexico and reaches the border of the United States, what will we do? As refugees from violence-torn places seek shelter, what will we do? What should we do?

Just in time for the Thanksgiving meal is some family advice offered by Russell Moore, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, the public-policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention.

Working against racism in society is difficult, but such work in the church may turn a person bitter. Jemar Tisby celebrates a saint who overcame bitterness toward the church.

Christa Brown calls for an inquiry of all faith groups in an effort to expose and rectify any and all clergy sexual misconduct.

The concept of “ethically sourced porn” is about as absurd as “ethically sourced cyanide,” writes Joshua Sharp in response to Nadia Bolz-Weber.

“I have a confession.” After the opening of “Bohemian Rhapsody,” a movie about the hit rock band Queen, Hal Ostrander, professor of religion and philosophy for Wayland Baptist University, considers a Christian’s posture in a culture of entertainment.

Jana Reiss, of Religion News Service, shares seven of her favorite passages from Eugene Peterson in honor of his death.

In his timeless book, Jesus and the Disinherited, black minister and theologian Howard Thurman wrote, “There is one overmastering problem that the socially and politically disinherited always face: Under what terms is survival possible?”