October 22, 2021

October 22, 2021

Conservative Southern Baptist Pastor Sues Russell Moore (Nashville Tennessean) Behind the Fortenberry Scandal: Another Member of Secretive Christian Nationalist Network Goes Down (Salon) White Evangelicals Dealing with Racial Issues and Faith: ‘If I’ve Been Wrong...

October 21, 2021

Christian Nationalism, Vaccine Hesitancy and Science Skeptics: WVU Researchers Delve into the Sociology of COVID-19 (WVU Today) Amid Pandemic Turmoil and Curriculum Fights, a Boom for White Conservative Christian Schools (New York Times) Southern Baptist Leaders Tell...

October 20, 2021

Attendance Shrinking at Small and Midsize Congregations (RNS) Three-State Merger Hailed as Transformative by CBF Leaders (BNG) ‘Dune’ Novels Draw on Islamic Motifs and Have in Turn Inspired Muslim Artists (RNS) Powerful Gang Behind Kidnapping of 17 US and Canadian...

October 19, 2021

Wendell Griffen: Southern Baptists, Attorney-Client Privilege, and Devotion to Empire (BNG) Preacher Who Suggests He is Acting Like Christ Laments Government Isn’t Executing LGBQT People (New Civil Rights Movement) The Reformed Church in America Moves Toward...

October 18, 2021

Southern Baptist Convention President Resigns After Internal Fight Over Sex Abuse Investigation (USA Today) Afghan Refugees Met With Cooperative Effort from Kentucky Baptists (Kentucky Today) Russell Moore: ‘Evangelical … Merely a Political Word’ (NBC News) Detroit...

October 15, 2021

Counties with More Confederate Monuments also had More Lynchings, Study Finds (Washington Post) National Council of Churches Elects All-Female Officers, Approves NRSV Update (RNS) The Sleeper Supreme Court Case that Threatens the Separation of Church and State (The...