After 30 years, the NRSV gets an update: Here’s what that means
WEBMar 15, 2022 · The New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition, also known as NRSVue, currently is available for digital download and will be published in printed copies later this spring. The update is significant, in part, because the NRSV is a preferred translation for many biblical scholars, seminaries, …
‘Traditional’ Southern Baptists counter Calvinism - Baptist News …
WEBJun 9, 2014 · Geisler said today’s Calvinists do not believe the one point of Calvinism on which virtually every traditional Southern Baptist agrees — eternal security of the believer, commonly expressed as “once saved, always saved.”. “This is a surprise,” he said. “Five-point Calvinists do not believe in eternal security.
Baptist News Global – Conversations that matter
WEBAnthea Butler explains the Catholic version of Christian nationalism. While much of the discussion about Christian nationalism focuses on white evangelical Christians, there’s a parallel and equally dangerous movement in Catholicism, Anthea Butler told a group of journalists and scholars Sept. 10. Butler, professor of American social thought ...
Why Beth Moore’s departure from the SBC really matters
WEBMar 10, 2021 · Jeff Straub, professor of historical theology and missions at Central Seminary in Plymouth, Minn., explained the background in a Feb. 28 article posted on the seminary’s website.. Describing a current call for a second “conservative resurgence” within the SBC, he called attention to the Conservative Baptist Network and Founders Ministries — two far-right groups within the right-wing ...
Why being transgender is not a sin – Baptist News Global
WEBNov 9, 2018 · Cross-dressing is about finding pleasure in wearing certain clothes. Being transgender is about finding mental and spiritual peace by aligning outward presentation with inner being. Occasionally, people will point to Genesis 1:27 as a condemnation of transgender identity: “male and female he created them.”.
I asked people why they’re leaving Christianity, and here’s what I ...
WEBDec 13, 2022 · According to a September 2022 Pew study, people identifying as Christian have decreased from 90% of the U.S. population in 1972 to 64% in 2020. But it’s not just researchers who are talking about this. As of Dec. 6, 2020, the hashtag “#exchristian” had 696.7 million cumulative views on TikTok and was assigned to more than 68,600 posts on ...
Church ‘religious exemption’ letters against COVID vaccination …
WEBAug 18, 2021 · Churches in California and North Carolina are among those now offering congregants documentation for “religious exemptions” to the COVID-19 vaccine, a practice that is legally dubious and likely ineffective, according to labor lawyers.. The practice has arisen as more employers and schools issue mandates that employees and students must be vaccinated before returning to work or school.
Crash-course in Bible history: How the Bible came to be
WEBFeb 14, 2023 · There has been debate about when the Hebrew Bible began to be written down, but the oldest possible manuscripts of a biblical text archaeologists have found are the Ketef Hinnom Scrolls, which were written in the seventh century BCE. They read in Hebrew, “May Yahweh bless you and keep you; May Yahweh cause his face to Shine upon you and grant ...
10 things we’re learning about the LGBTQ debate in the church
WEBFeb 13, 2018 · 4. It is important to discuss the actual issue and not use proxies for the issue. Because LGBTQ inclusion in the church is such a difficult topic, and because of the fears outlined above, the conversation sometimes falls to proxy debates to avoid the main difficult debate. These are diversionary tactics that must be labeled for what they are.
Tony Evans misses the mark and misrepresents history with his …
WEBOct 11, 2021 · Tony Evans, founding pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, recently introduced a concept he calls Kingdom Race Theology to his congregation as his alternative to Critical Race Theory, by way of two Wednesday evening sermons. According to a July 27 article in Baptist Press, Evans described Critical Race Theory as “a post-Civil Rights social construct that seeks to demonstrate how ...
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