6+ day, 4+ hour ago   (761+ words) Aaron Earls - Lifeway Research The largest share was among those 30 and older, according to new research, while the number of child baptisms was among the lowest recorded. As baptisms in Southern Baptist congregations increase, a growing percentage of those entering…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (550+ words) As countless philosophers have taught us over the centuries, our most dangerous moral problems often come not from valuing some vice but from having a misordered value for some virtue. People who grapple with forgiveness often do this not because…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (958+ words) We can’t understand the big picture by reporting only the most sympathetic cases. “We need a witness for a hearing. Can you get us a homeless family: mother, father—father out of work in the past four months from an…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (607+ words) Freedom of worship is a foundational American right with sound scriptural support. Meddling with it is wrong—and shortsighted. The State Capitol in Austin, Texas. A proposal like this would raise some hackles under any circumstances, but in this case,…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago   (572+ words) The church father encouraged Christians to grapple with the story of the witch of Endor. King Saul famously courts a medium in 1 Samuel 28, summoning the ghostly figure of the departed Samuel in a moment of distress and disconnection with God....

6+ day, 10+ hour ago   (395+ words) What is God like? Is he a harmless grandfatherly figure, comfortably reclining on a cloud? A bohemian shouting about love (or wrath) through a megaphone on a street corner? An enigmatic entity who wound up the universe like a clock…...

6+ day, 9+ hour ago   (911+ words) An excerpt from Resisting Therapy Culture: The Dangers of Pop Psychology and How the Church Can Respond. All of us are experiencing our lives through what we already know. That may seem like a simple statement, but once you start…...

9+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1085+ words) Last year, I found myself making the rounds of Christian podcasts to publicize a couple of new books I’d written. Most of these conversations were similar, but one ended with an exchange that caught us both off guard. The interviewer…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (513+ words) Support for the programs is high in minority communities—and among the hundreds of church leaders I’ve met. Several bishops used a popular phrase that I often hear from pastors nationwide—the school-to-prison pipeline. They’re sick of seeing young lives…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1192+ words) My state of Texas is far from alone in struggling to attract and retain educators. Something has to change. My eldest daughter wanted to be a teacher. She admires her own instructors, and she thought she could build a meaningful…...