US Baptist leaders urge House Speaker Mike Johnson to support Ukrainian Christians
United States RNS Southern Baptist leaders have written to US House Speaker Mike Johnson, a member and former official of their denomination, urging him to support Ukraine in Russia’s war against its Eastern European neighbour. “As you consider efforts to support Ukraine, we humbly ask that you consider the plight of Christians,” wrote the leaders, […]
SBC leader Russell Moore to Trump: Time to leave. “People are dead”
RNS Russell Moore, head ethicist for the country’s largest Protestant denomination, called on Donald Trump to resign as president after Wednesday’s mob attack on the US Capitol. “Mr President, people are dead,” Moore tweeted on Friday after Trump boasted on social media about the “great American Patriots” that voted for him. “The Capitol is ransacked. There are 12 dangerous […]
Norman Geisler, theologian and prolific author, dies at 86
RNS Theologian and Christian apologist Norman Geisler, the author of dozens of books and the co-founder of two seminaries, has died. He was 86. His family announced his death on Monday (1st July) on his website. “It is with great sadness that we share this news that Norm Geisler passed away peacefully this morning,” reads the […]
Paige Patterson, ousted Baptist seminary leader, to teach ethics course
RNS Paige Patterson, ousted as president of a prominent Southern Baptist seminary this spring for allegedly dismissing women’s concerns about domestic abuse and rape, is set to teach a Christian ethics course at a Charlotte, North Carolina, seminary later this month. Patterson, once the top elected official of the Southern Baptist Convention, was removed in May from […]