Yes, we need a revival. We need a making-disciples kind of revival; one that opens the door for the way of Jesus to invade our spending decisions, our family life, and who we choose to care about. (BNG)

08/09/2017 - By Corey Fields / Baptist News Global

Consistently in this country and throughout Christian history, we remember the legacy of the stranger, the heroic actions of the unwanted, the new insights and contributions of the disregarded and even despised. (BNG)

08/09/2017 - By David Jordan / Baptist News Global

Charles Wade: When asked what kind of Baptist I am, I reply, “I am a Texas Baptist.”

08/02/2017 - By Charles R. Wade

What do Jesus, Aristotle, Jimmy Stewart, Pope Francis and even science agree on?

08/02/2017 - By Charles Mathewes and Evan Sandsmark / Washington Post

What is required to break free of the “mile wide, inch deep” variety of faith that plagues the 21st century church in America?

07/24/2017 - By Bill Wilson / Center for Healthy Churches

The lynching tree keeps Christ’s cross from becoming “a symbol of abstract, sentimental piety.” But the lynching tree needs the cross, “without which it becomes simply an abomination,” with no sign of hope.

07/19/2017 - By Bill Leonard

The Trump presidency is only six months old, but it is already beginning to alter long-standing spiritual alignments. It seems as though Christians are not changing Trump, but rather that Trump could be changing Christianity. (Washington Post)

07/19/2017 - By John Fea / Washington Post

How long, how long will churches contribute to discrimination and violence against women by denying them freedom to fulfill their calling to be deacons, pastors or priests?

07/12/2017 - By Jann Aldredge Clanton

If we are willing to sacrifice fellowship over our understanding of sexuality but not over the name and nature of Christ, then what is it that guides our path?

07/07/2017 - By Isa Torres

Many congregations across America are struggling with decline. They struggle in silence, because they are afraid it is their fault. It’s not.

07/05/2017 - By Jim Kitchens / Center for Healthy Churches

It may take years to fully grasp the import of the Supreme Court’s decision in Trinity Lutheran Church v. Comer, where the court ruled 7-2 the state of Missouri had expressly and unjustifiably discriminated against a church by disqualifying it from receiving a public benefit solely because of the church’s religious character.

07/05/2017 - By Melissa Rogers / Religion News Service

The base of the alt-right movement is “white nationalism, or at least white identity politics.”

06/23/2017 - By Ferrell Foster / Christian Life Commission