(RNS) In this moment of reckoning, white evangelical Protestants the denominational family to which Southern Baptists belong are increasingly out of step.
BGCT Executive Board holds hybrid meeting
May 25, 2021
Chair Clint Davis Iright), pastor of First Baptist Church in Mount Pleasant, presides over a meeting of the Baptist General Convention of Texas Executive Board. He asks a question of Ward Hayes (left), BGCT treasurer/CFO. (Photo by Ken Camp)
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DALLAS A majority of Baptist General Convention of Texas Executive Board members participated in their first in-person meeting in more than a year, gathering in Dallas to hear reports and conduct routine business. Another 23 directors participated in the hybrid-format meeting remotely via Zoom on May 24-25.
LGBTQ students fare better at Christian colleges, CCCU says
May 21, 2021
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Researchers agree LGBTQ students often struggle with isolation, loneliness and fear of assault while in college.
But the Council For Christian Colleges & Universities insists a comparison of two independent studies reveals LGBTQ students have better experiences at faith-based institutions than their peers in American universities overall.
The CCCU an international association of more than 180 Christian schools compared data from a 2018 national analysis by Rutgers University with a recent College Pulse study commission by the Religious Exemption Accountability Project.
In March, REAP filed a class-action suit against the U.S. Department of Education on behalf of 33 plaintiffs. In
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April 29, 2021 // Posted In Academics, Faith, Research
Readers browsing Amazon for new books in mid-April found a Baylor professor’s new release among the overall top 50 on the site a week before it was even officially released.
The title?
The Making of Biblical Womanhood, by history professor (and Baylor alumna) Beth Allison Barr (BA ’96). Reviewing both the Bible and centuries of church history, Dr. Barr makes the case that Biblical passages used to justify “complementarianism” are often shaped more by culture and translation than by the Scripture’s historical and social contexts.
“It’s no surprise we find patriarchy in the Bible, because that’s the world the people of the Bible lived in from Old Testament to New,” Barr told Religion News Service. “What is surprising is how much resistance to patriarchy we find in the Bible. The Old Testament raises women up women like Rahab. She’s a prostitute, and she gets (named) in the line of Jesus. In the histor