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I have cherished the community on this blog. Thank you for being here. You are people with whom I have shared many memories, troubling thoug...

Twenty-one years ago, the prominent Southern Baptist pastor of a Texas megachurch allowed a music minister to quietly move on despite multip...

Watch "True Crime with Aphrodite Jones" on the Investigation Discovery channel on Thursday, April 28, at 9:00 p.m. Central Time....

Friends, As some of you already know, my life has changed a lot over the past year. I’m now pursuing a Ph.D. in religious studies in the j...

As Holy Week unfolds, I find myself thinking about Pontius Pilate, the powerful Roman leader who thought he could wash his hands of an innoc...

In Somerville, Tennessee, the March 2011 newsletter for Warren Community Church featured Paul Williams. In fact, the newsletter announced t...

“Try to imagine the pain and humiliation of a teenage girl, just 15 years old, who says she was forced to stand in front of a New Hampshire ...

In my March 29th post, I posed the question that Dee Miller asked over a decade ago: “What is it that keeps people in the church zealous abo...

Lately, I’ve been reading a lot about tragedies and catastrophes. One essay talked about the Oklahoma City bombing, which claimed the lives...

As reported by the Associated Baptist Press , the Southern Baptist Pastors’ Conference is funded with $141,549.00 from the Southern Baptist ...

After four years of writing this blog, I started moderating all comments in December 2010 because of a growing stream of vitriol, venom, and...

A reader asked about getting an English translation of the complete article that appeared in the March 10, 2011 issue of Réforme , the larg...