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Confessions of an exhausted preacher – Baptist News Global
2+ hour, 30+ min ago (427+ words) OpinionJoy Clark "|" March 2, 2026 As I write this, I am a preacher on sabbatical after two years of weekly preaching. I am a "young" preacher in that this is my first preaching job, although not young in age. I have done…...
Reimagining Esther: Purim amidst polarization
16+ hour, 59+ min ago (797+ words) OpinionAlexiana Fry "|" March 2, 2026 The Jewish festival of Purim starts on the evening of March 2. As a scholar of Esther, the book that holds its supposed "origin" story, I always think of it more vividly on the days it is traditionally…...
Catholic bishops: Trump’s assault on birthright citizenship affronts Catholic teaching
19+ hour, 29+ min ago (115+ words) The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has filed an amicus brief in a case before the U.S. Supreme Court opposing President Donald Trump's efforts to eliminate birthright citizenship, arguing to the majority-Catholic justices that doing away with it would undermine church teaching…...
National Prayer Breakfast or Christian Nationalism Breakfast?
19+ hour, 29+ min ago (798+ words) OpinionRobert P. Sellers "|" March 2, 2026 On Feb. 5, the 74th annual National Prayer Breakfast was held in a ballroom at the Washington Hilton Hotel, with President Donald Trump as the keynote speaker. On Feb. 4, 2016, the 64th National Prayer Breakfast was held at the same hotel,…...
The apocrypha, Christianity’s ‘hidden’ texts, may not be in the Bible – but they have shaped tradition for centuries
21+ hour, 26+ min ago (128+ words) Of Jesus" 12 disciples, Saint Peter is one of the most important. In the Book of Matthew, Jesus declares that Peter is'the "rock" on which "I will build my church," and Catholic tradition considers him the first pope. Martyred in Rome…...
Who is Telling the Truth About American Religion?
21+ hour, 36+ min ago (110+ words) Okay, I guess it's time to write the post that I've been dreading for a long time because I don't know how it's going to be received.Be warned'this one is super nerdy and goes very deep into the weeds…...
Black Church urged to tell its story fully and boldly
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (767+ words) NewsMark Wingfield "|" March 1, 2026 The Black Church is not a single story but is a tapestry of stories that must be heard in context, speakers said at the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference Feb. 23-26 in Chicago. In session after session, speakers returned…...
Keep hope alive: The legacy of Jesse Jackson – Baptist News Global
3+ day, 18+ hour ago (308+ words) OpinionJesse Nelson "|" February 27, 2026 Jesse Louis Jackson Sr. died Feb. 17. Like his mentor, Martin Luther King Jr., Jackson has left a lasting impact on our nation and world. So what is that legacy? Twenty years later, Jackson's vision became a reality…...
‘You don’t know the half’ of the Good Samaritan story
3+ day, 18+ hour ago (839+ words) AnalysisBraxton Wade "|" February 27, 2026 In a sermon at the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference preached from Luke 10:2935, Reginald Sharpe Jr. circled a phrase that refuses to let the church remain comfortable: "You don't know the half." Sharpe did not give us a…...
Checks, charities and conversion classes: What the Epstein files show about Jeffrey Epstein’s Jewish world
3+ day, 20+ hour ago (95+ words) Sometime in the early 2010s, Jeffrey Epstein walked into Dr. Steven Kaplan's office for a root canal. Checks, charities and conversion classes: What the Epstein files show about Jeffrey Epstein's Jewish world - Email a link to a friend (Opens in new…...