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Understanding America's overlooked religious middle – Baptist News Global
In America’s religious landscape, the groups attracting the most public attention are those staking out the poles in our political divides: the shrinking, aging, but still influential group of white evangelicals on the right vs. Black Protestants and the growing
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Love, hate and Harry Potter – Baptist News Global
May 2 is International Harry Potter Day, the anniversary of the climactic Battle of Hogwarts in the final Potter book, when love overcomes hate and death. It’s a very Easter kind of occasion, and intentionally so, according to author J.
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What is ‘techno-optimism’? 2 technology scholars explain the ideology that says technology is the answer to every problem – Baptist News Global
Silicon Valley venture capitalist Marc Andreessen penned a 5,000-word manifesto in 2023 that gave a full-throated call for unrestricted technological progress to boost markets, broaden energy production, improve education and strengthen liberal democracy.
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American Couple Preaches The Gospel With Help From The Sun – Baptist News Global
In several districts of central and southwestern Uganda, places with high levels of poverty, a beacon of hope shines bright these days
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A Jan. 6 antisemite is sent to prison. What do the presidential candidates say? – Baptist News Global
April 19), a sometime leader of the Proud Boys’ Maryland-D.C. chapter was sentenced to five and a half years in prison for his participation in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, during which he assaulted a number of
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To save democracy, one place to start is in church – Baptist News Global
American democracy is under serious threat as we approach the 2024 election. Former President Donald Trump and the MAGA movement have normalized political violence in the wake of the January 6 riot, invoked poisonous and dehumanizing speech about opponents as
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My hybrid church – Baptist News Global
Let me tell you about my church. My church meets every Friday from noon until around 6:30 p.m. My church has no pews but plenty of folding tables and chairs as well as boxes and bins filled with groceries. My
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Speaker offers primer on LGBTQ words and how parents may affirm their kids – Baptist News Global
Parents can support the emotional and physical well-being of LGBTQ children by accepting the language and concepts they use to express their emerging gender identities, according to Hannah Edwards. Edwards — executive director of Transforming Families, a Minnesota-based, peer-led support
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Graduation advice for seminarians and seminaries – Baptist News Global
I approached the end of my time at divinity school with relief and joy. It had been the best and worst three years of my life. I took apart everything I thought about God, myself and others and emerged with
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Surrounded by trees: An Earth Day celebration and lament – Baptist News Global
One of the many blessings of my current home is its location. No matter what direction you look, you will see trees. And not just a few in our yard, but a forest. We are surrounded by majestic pines, maples
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How evangelicals promoted, then abandoned environmental stewardship – Baptist News Global
Rising temperatures made 2023 earth’s hottest year on record. Climate scientists say human activity increases heat-trapping gasses that contribute to weather-related disasters, which in 2022 forced more than 3 million Americans from their homes and cost the world $360 billion
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As antisemitism and Islamophobia skyrocket, the effects ripple through politics – Baptist News Global
Antisemitism is on the rise in the United States across the political spectrum, and it is creating challenging questions for how best to address many of the most pressing moral challenges of our day — particularly U.S. policy toward Israel and a rise in hate incidents.