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As Election Day looms, Christian pastors make bold political appeals
By Yonat Shimron, Emily McFarlan Miller, and Jack Jenkins — November 1, 2020
(RNS) — Prominent clergy on both sides urged their flocks to vote, even as they defended the propriety of addressing politics from the pulpit.
Walking back Metaxas’ tweet on Biden to blackface days
By John Fea — May 28, 2020
(RNS) — Biden’s comment was, as many have pointed out, inappropriate and offensive for its presumption to speak for African Americans. Metaxas’ tweet, however, was worse.
Dispute over Russell Moore spurs pushback among some Southern Baptists
By Yonat Shimron and Bob Smietana — February 20, 2020
(RNS) — Among many older Southern Baptists who have been overwhelmingly supportive of President Trump, the views of Russell Moore, who has called Trump ‘an arrogant huckster’ back in 2016, are divisive.
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.
Trump evangelicals bewail ‘civil war’ while still profiting from last one
By John Fea — October 3, 2019
(RNS) — We don’t need to fear a new civil war. Instead, to paraphrase Abraham Lincoln in his Second Inaugural Address, we still need to bind the wounds of the old one.
What’s coming for religion in 2019? Here’s what the experts predict.
By Aysha Khan — December 31, 2018
(RNS) — Scholars, faith leaders, activists and other experts predict what changes the American and global religious landscapes will see after the New Year.
God and guns: Texas pastors undergo security training a month after Sutherland Springs
By Bobby Ross Jr. — December 5, 2017
PLANO, Texas (RNS) — The Rev. Jack Graham, pastor of Prestonwood Baptist Church and a former president of the national Southern Baptist Convention, said God put the idea for the free seminar on his heart.
Marginalizing Russell Moore is grave mistake for Southern Baptists
By Jonathan Merritt — December 20, 2016
(RNS) Southern Baptists are threatening to withhold funds from Moore's agency. But they need him more than he needs them, writes Jonathan Merritt.
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