Preaching Politics During an Election Year

Preaching Politics During an Election Year

Everywhere, there are signs. Signs in yards. Signs on faces. Slogans plastered on hats. Flags are rippling in the wind. A menagerie of memes is flooding social media feeds. There is no escaping the buffet of bumper stickers bombarding my front windshield view whenever...

Why Colonial Baptists Were Reluctant Patriots

Baptist pastor James Manning of Providence, Rhode Island, wrote to English Baptist leader John Ryland in November 1776, apprising him of trouble in the American colonies. Two winters before, Providence’s Baptists had seen a prodigious revival, with perhaps 200...

A Political Nativity in the Nation’s Capital

In early December, the streets of Capitol Hill are briefly transformed into a first century Middle Eastern scene as robed people march through the streets with sheep, donkeys and camels. A “live nativity,” this annual event started in 2010 to enact the...