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Baptist News Global is a reader-supported, independent news organization providing original and curated news, opinion and analysis about matters of faith. BNG covers the people, events and ideas that are shaping American culture and Baptist life. We do so from a perspective that is Baptist in heritage and ecumenical in spirit.

By Mark Wingfield
01/11/2025

By Mark Wingfield

Upon her death at age 84, Anita Jane Bryant was remembered most vividly for her harsh stance against homosexuality in the 1970s and not for the successful music career that preceded her advocacy. A native Oklahoman, she won the 1958 Miss Oklahoma beauty pageant, which helped her launch a music caree...

By Quardricos Driskell
01/10/2025

By Quardricos Driskell

On Jan. 20, Donald Trump will take the presidential oath of office on the day set aside to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday. This convergence crystallizes the United States’ ongoing struggle between competing visions of faith and politics in public life. MLK Day historically has been ...

By Mark Wingfield
01/10/2025

By Mark Wingfield

One simple way churches could proclaim truth in an era of Trumpian disinformation is to speak plainly about the importance of vaccines. At the height of the COVID pandemic, as many Americans were resistant to what they considered an untested new vaccine, it was faith communities that convinced vulne...

By Steve Rabey
01/10/2025

By Steve Rabey

Project Esther, the Heritage Foundation’s campaign to battle antisemitism, plans to target Wikipedia editors it claims fuel anti-Jewish hostility. But Project Esther’s own rhetoric about battling powerful Jewish “masterminds” reinforces centuries-old conspiracy theories about Jews who have t...

By Jeff Brumley
01/10/2025

By Jeff Brumley

A newspaper’s rejection of an advertisement calling Israel’s war in Gaza “genocide” underscores the debate over the term for intentionally attempting to destroy all or part of targeted people groups. “The refusal of The New York Times to run paid digital ads that call for an end to Israel....

By Rick Pidcock
01/10/2025

By Rick Pidcock

This second week of January is likely hard for plenty of evangelical men who made New Year’s resolutions not to lust. I know, because I used to be one of them. Even President Jimmy Carter had to deal with this. In a 1976 interview with Pl***oy, Carter famously admitted to “lust” and committing...

By Mark Wingfield
01/10/2025

By Mark Wingfield

If there’s one thing that differentiates Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from President-elect Donald Trump, it’s that Kennedy grew up in a devout Christian home where faith was serious business. While Trump’s upbringing in New York City was marginally influenced by the late Norman Vincent Peale, then pa...

By Maina Mwaura
01/10/2025

By Maina Mwaura

The only solution for the Southern Baptist Convention to solve its sexual abuse problem is to dismantle the denomination entirely, according to Boz Tchividjian, one of the nation’s best-known attorneys representing abuse survivors. “They tried to put some Band-Aids on it, and they were more conc...

By Robert P. Sellers https://bit.ly/4abX245
01/10/2025

By Robert P. Sellers https://bit.ly/4abX245

On Saturday, Jan. 4, former President Jimmy Carter’s body made the final journey from his home in Plains, Ga., to the Carter Center in Atlanta, where he had been so many times since its establishment 42 years ago. The remains of the former president and former governor of Georgia, global humanitar...

By Staff
01/10/2025

By Staff

Joshua Carter, grandson of President Jimmy Carter, was among the speakers at the state funeral for the former president held at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., Jan. 9. Here is a verbatim transcript of his comments.   My grandfather started teaching Sunday school when he was a midshipman...

By Jeff Brumley
01/09/2025

By Jeff Brumley

Americans overwhelmed by the prospect of authoritarianism under Donald Trump must not abandon hope or succumb to inaction in the struggle for democracy, activists cautioned in a webinar organizing faith-based political opposition to the incoming administration. The lure of just hunkering down is und...

By Wesley E. Bridges
01/09/2025

By Wesley E. Bridges

Here in Mississippi, we cage and age people. The United States imprisons 311 out of every 100,000 residents, according to a 2023 report from the Department of Justice. Mississippi imprisons more than twice that number at 661 people per 100,000. Compounded by antiquated laws surrounding criminal just...

By Jeff Brumley
01/09/2025

By Jeff Brumley

U.S. society will continue to fragment into ever-shrinking political and religious clusters as long as Americans continue to shun those with different perspectives, sociologist of religion Ryan Burge said in a Denver Seminary podcast. The trend has been highly visible in Christian denominations whos...

By Martin Thielen
01/09/2025

By Martin Thielen

The sins of the white American church began early on and have continued unabated ever since. For example, large numbers of American Christians enthusiastically supported the genocide of Native Americans, fiercely defended slavery, actively participated in Jim Crow segregation, and stubbornly resiste...

By Staff https://bit.ly/4afCXKf
01/09/2025

By Staff https://bit.ly/4afCXKf

Baptist News Global provides a free listing of ministry-related jobs for Baptist churches, theological institutions and organizations across the United States. Each free posting is for 30 days and is limited to 150 words. Postings may be extended another 30 days for $1.00 per word. To submit a minis...

By Mark Wingfield
01/09/2025

By Mark Wingfield

With funding from an estate gift, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship will reduce its global missions force by 13 people who have accepted early retirement options. Some of those retiring will continue to work with CBF Global Missions but no longer will be on the payroll. The overall downsizing will....

By Mark Wingfield
01/08/2025

By Mark Wingfield

Less than 0.1% of teenagers with private insurance in the United States are receiving gender-related medicines, according to first-of-its-kind research from Harvard School of Public Health. The laws passed by Republican legislatures in half the U.S. states and the stream of anti-trans publicity gene...

By Jeff Brumley
01/08/2025

By Jeff Brumley

All Louisiana school districts must comply with a recent federal court ruling barring classroom Ten Commandments displays despite contradictory guidance from a state official, civil rights groups said in a Jan. 6 letter to district superintendents. Three days earlier, Louisiana Attorney General Liz....

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