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February 2, 2017
The Abortion Rate is At An All-Time Low. Better Birth Control Under the Obama Administration is Largely to Thank. (Vox) Trump Trashes the Press at First Black History Month Meeting (New York Daily News) A Full...
Profiles in Goodwill: Candy Phillips
Candy Phillips is the retired executive director-treasurer of Tennessee Woman's Missionary Union and a Baptist Center for Ethics board member. 1. Where did you grow up? I was born in Lawton, Oklahoma. While my dad was...
How One Church Tackled the Human-Trafficking Fight
Human trafficking is a global, year-round challenge with a significant presence at major sporting events like the Super Bowl. Awareness of the problem is just the beginning. When I learned of the extent of trafficking,...
Why We Must Reclaim Baptist Interdependency
Many people believe Baptists are a fiercely independent people - not only as individuals, but also as congregations. One reason for this opinion is the impact of American Baptist theologian and former BWA President...
February 1, 2017
Trump Nominates Conservative Anti-Church State Separation Ideologue Neil Gorsuch to Supreme Court (Right Wing Watch) Trump's Supreme Court Pick: Defender of Religious Freedom, Favoritism for Christians (Christianity...
‘The Disturbances’ Must Reading for Pastors, Church Members
Sometimes a story is just begging to be told. This might be because it's the sort of story that keeps you on the edge of your seat. Or it might be because the story is particularly compelling. Sometimes, for any number...
How I Benefited from Attending BWA Meetings
I first heard of the Baptist World Alliance when I joined the staff of the Baptist Union of Uganda as travelling secretary in 1984. Ten years later, while serving as general secretary of the Baptist Union of Uganda, I...
Human Trafficking an Everyday Problem, Super Bowl City Says
Houston hosts Super Bowl 51 on Feb. 5 - and with the event comes heightened attention to human trafficking, and sex trafficking in particular. Minal Patel Davis, special adviser on human trafficking to the mayor of...
January 31, 2017
Religious Leaders Condemn Trump's Immigration Order. But Who's Listening? (CNN) Baptists Weigh In On Muslim Ban (Baptist News Global) Baptist Minister Challenges Donald Trump Over Donald Trump Refugee Policy (Christian...
What Is the Trump Wall?
President Trump wants to wall out the undocumented. Does he want the wall to keep in the dreamers? Trump issued an executive order last week that authorized the building of a U.S.-Mexican border barrier that will run...
How The BWA’s Global Family Widened My View
George W. Bush delivered his State of the Union address on Jan. 29, 2002, and described regimes that sponsor terror as an axis of evil. Just a little over four months prior, the U.S. had experienced the terrorist...
January 30, 2017
Protests Erupt Nationwide for Second Day Over Trump's Travel Ban (NBC News) Lives at Stake as World's Airports Turn into Limbo for Many Under Trump Order (Washington Post) Syrian Christian Migrants, Visas in Hand,...
How the BWA Enriches My Ministry, Mission Partnerships
The Baptist World Alliance (BWA) has been a part of my life for four decades. My participation with the BWA began as an academic interest in their remarkable history and advocacy for religious liberty, peacemaking and...
‘The Founder’
One phrase was used frequently when I worked at McDonald's during high school: "If you got time to lean, you got time to clean." I heard that saying in my teenage dreams. Watching "The Founder" and hearing Ray Kroc...
Texas Lawmakers Unite on Human Trafficking
Texas lawmakers have found an issue around which to unite amid a polarized political climate: human trafficking. A bipartisan group of legislators gathered on Jan. 25, 2017, at the Texas Capitol for a press conference...
January 27, 2017
CDC's Canceled Climate Change Conference is Back On – Thanks to Baptists Al Gore and Jimmy Carter (Washington Post) Pence, a Longtime Hero for the Antiabortion Movement, Will Join the March for Life (Washington Post)...
Politically redefined Christian ethics undermines the Gospel
By John D. Pierce Many American evangelicals have radically redefined Christian ethics in terms of mere political opposition to legal abortion and same-sex marriages. Basic biblical, moral standards such as...
How the BWA Opened My Eyes to Global Baptists
I am a South African, born and raised during the difficult dark days of apartheid. The most tragic story about South Africa is that the church was used to propagate and sustain the policies of segregation. Even though...
Reflecting on Donald Trump and Climate Change
President Donald Trump's views on climate change are concerning. Reports on his climate-change stance indicate a man who is either easily swayed by the views of others, who does not have a clear appreciation of the...
Why You Won’t Be Observing Protestantism’s 500th Year
This year - 2017 - many Protestant Christians around the world will be celebrating what they think is the 500th anniversary of the birth of Protestantism. Many consider Oct. 31 as "Reformation Day" and celebrate it as...
January 26, 2017
Ohio Mosque is First to Join Sanctuary Movement (National Catholic Reporter) Conservative Christian Organizations Among Fake Think Tanks that Fuel Fake News (Wired) New Study Identifies Novel Way to Help Readers Spot...