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Paige Patterson feared backslide after election of first black SBC president

by Adelle M. Banks, Yonat Shimron
November 18, 2019

(RNS) — A newly discovered letter from one former prominent leader of the Southern Baptist Convention to another reveals a depth of mistrust and suspicion toward the denomination’s first black president.

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Church of Canada may disappear by 2040, says new report

by John Longhurst
November 18, 2019

A new report from the Anglican Church of Canada projects that the denomination may cease to exist in the next two decades if its current decline continues.

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Americans to religious organizations: Stay out of politics

by Yonat Shimron
November 15, 2019

(RNS) — The latest Pew Research poll found that 63% of Americans say churches and other houses of worship should keep out of politics, and 76% said religious congregations should not make political endorsements.

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Paige Patterson feared backslide after election of first black SBC president

by Adelle M. Banks, Yonat Shimron
November 14, 2019

(RNS) — A newly discovered letter from one former prominent leader of the Southern Baptist Convention to another reveals a depth of mistrust and suspicion toward the denomination's first black president.

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Sex scandals show why evangelicals need to recover the sacrament of confession

by Joseph DSouza
November 14, 2019

(RNS) — Imagine a church where everyone, including the senior pastor, was required to have a person they confessed to. For one, it would help avoid some of the major crises in the failures of leadership.

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Chicago suburb seeks to block church’s winter homeless shelter

by Aysha Khan
November 12, 2019

(RNS) — Last month, Hope Covenant Church opened the first homeless shelter in Chicago’s affluent suburban Village of Orland Park in more than three decades. The overnight shelter is open every Tuesday until April — unless a lawsuit by village officials succeeds.

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Can we find a new meaning in the word evangelical?

by Jason Byassee
November 12, 2019

(RNS) — On a visit to evangelical churches in the heart of red America not long ago, I found hope to think "evangelical" can mean something besides what web trolls and Trump-supporting preachers have turned it into.

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Mohler, prominent Southern Baptist, will be nominated to lead denomination

by Yonat Shimron, Adelle M. Banks
November 4, 2019

(RNS) — Nominating Mohler was a preemptive move intended to block candidates from the denomination's more zealous "God and country" faction during what will be a potentially tumultuous U.S. presidential campaign.

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Do the Democrats have a religion problem?

by Mark Silk
October 31, 2019

(RNS) — With the rise of the religiously unaffiliated, the God gap matters less and less. Will the Democrats find a way to strike a new spiritual chord on the environment?

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Southern Baptist church: Racial prejudice a factor in rejection of black pastor

by Adelle M. Banks
October 30, 2019

(RNS) — Pastor Marcus Hayes, a leader of Biltmore Church in Asheville, North Carolina, received 81% of the vote at First Baptist Church Naples in Florida. But an 85% vote was needed for approval.

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Accusing SBC of 'caving,' John MacArthur says of Beth Moore: ‘Go home’

by bob smietana
October 19, 2019

(RNS) — Evangelical pastor John MacArthur criticized Southern Baptist Bible teacher Beth Moore and called female preachers a sign that Southern Baptists were losing their belief in the authority of the Bible.

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Trump-drunk tweets touting Paula White book reshape what we expect of SBC pastors

by Costi W. Hinn
October 18, 2019

(RNS) — It is healthy for evangelical leaders to want to influence the president, but when appeasement of Trump extends to promoting someone many Christians would call a false teacher, they risk their reputations.

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Religious right sticks by Trump as political heat rises

by Elana Schor
October 11, 2019

(AP) — "Whatever you think of Trump personally," one evangelical supporter told Fox News recently, "it is undeniable" that he has succeeded in enacting conservative Christians' agenda.

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Kate Bowler on how evangelical women carved a niche in celebrity culture

by Yonat Shimron
October 11, 2019

DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) — Without any kind of theological credentials and while toeing the line of the subservient wife, many preachers' wives were as successful as their husbands in the capitalist marketplace, Kate Bowler's new book argues.

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Speaking of abuse: Baptist news service, Bible scholars grapple with language

by Adelle M. Banks, Emily McFarlan Miller
October 10, 2019

(RNS) — Some Christians are reassessing how to describe sexual misconduct, with an eye to owning up to the seriousness of abuse.

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