What Has Changed In The DNA Of The Southern Baptist Convention?

(OPINION) The issue isn’t who is a Baptist and who is not. Church historians struggle to count the number of organized Baptist groups, and thousands of Baptist churches are totally independent. The question is whether the SBC’s DNA has changed in ways that will affect local churches, as well as agencies, boards and seminaries at the state and national levels.

Two Leaders Of The New US House Could Put Baptist Diversity In The News Spotlight

(OPINION) By coincidence, both party leaders in the U.S. House are now Baptists, a faith that outside the South has generally been underrepresented among the political elite. Catholics — think Nancy Pelosi, John Boehner, Paul Ryan — monopolized the speaker and minority leader posts for much of the 21st century.

Another Big Supreme Court Case: State Aid For Students Attending Religious Schools

(OPINION) Media eyes are trained on the U.S. Supreme Court's Dec. 1 argument on Mississippi's abortion restrictions, preceded by a fast-tracked Nov. 1 hearing about the stricter law in Texas. But don't neglect the Court's Dec. 8 hearing and subsequent decision on tax funding of religious schools in the potentially weighty Carson v. Makin case.

Richard Ostling, OpinionRichard OstlingNovember 9, 2021baptists, catholicism, Church and State, education, lawsuits, mormons, Religious libertyComment

Press Eagerly Watches Evangelicals Fracture As Elites Argue Over Politics

(OPINION) The Guy suggests that something far deeper than just a chatter-fest among self-appointed Twitter leaders is occurring in the Trump Era, which continues, to some degree — something that has the potential to wound or reshape what has been the largest and most dynamic segment of American religion: evangelical Protestants.

Opinion, North AmericaRichard OstlingOctober 28, 2021politics, baptists, Church and State, Evangelicals, Richard OstlingComment

Did January attack on Capitol highlight 'D.I.Y. Christianity' as decade's next big thing?

(OPINION) The promotion of individualism at all costs within America is causing many to become “do it yourself” Christians. That applies to the Capitol rioters on Jan. 6 too.

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