Baptist College Handbook Authorizes ‘Full Access’ to Students’ Social Media Accounts

Campus policies at schools like Louisiana College stir debate over whether regulating personal posts protects students or silences criticism. Criticism of a Southern Baptist college’s social media policy by a former professor has highlighted Christian higher education’s quest to balance free speech online with enforcing institutional codes of conduct. A Louisiana College (LC) social media policy adopted in July “seems designed to silence criticism from students, faculty,... Read More

In Search of a Better Land: A World on the Move and a Church on Mission

Three takeaways from my time with the North America Diaspora Strategy Group. Ever since Adam and Eve got the boot out of the Garden of Eden, humanity has—whether we realize it or not—been on the move in search of a better land. Today, migration is one of the great global trends that reminds us that we are all migrants. Mohsin Hamid, writing in National Geographic, expresses, “All of us are descended from migrants. . . . None of us is a native of the place we call... Read More

Jackie Hill Perry After Bethel Controversy: ‘I Don’t Agree With Everyone I Do Ministry With’

Instagram posts from the Propel Women tour spur backlash and lose her spot at an Answers in Genesis event. A year ago this week, Jackie Hill Perry released her first book, Gay Girl, Good God. In her writing and speaking, Perry has shared her insights on faith and her testimony as a former lesbian in evangelical spaces like The Gospel Coalition, Desiring God, and the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission—and faced some backlash. But a different kind of controversy... Read More

Hurricane Dorian makes landfall at Cape Hatteras, N.C.

Charleston, a historic port city of handsome antebellum homes, is on a peninsula that is prone to flooding even from ordinary storms. And it took an attack. Dorian toppled some 150 trees, swamped roads and brought down power lines, officials said, but the flooding and wind weren’t nearly as bad as feared. Several gusts of 75 to 80 mph were reported in Charleston Harbor early in the afternoon, as the storm’s eye moved just northeast of the city. ... Read More

Laying My Church to Rest

How I learned to process the unique grief of closing a church. I held my brother’s ashes in my hand. The texture was finer and smoother than my sister’s ashes 18 years before. Hers had been more granulated, with a grayish tone. My brother’s were softer and pale white. Before I slowly circled the 90-year-old maple tree that stands outside my family home in Montgomery, Ohio, I held “him” in silence for a few moments. Then little by little, I spread... Read More

NSU Athletics to Accept Hurricane Dorian Donations at Upcoming Home Events

Story Links FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Nova Southeastern Athletics is taking action to help bring relief to those impacted by the devastation and flooding as a result of Hurricane Dorian’s track through the Bahamas. To help our neighbors in need, NSU Athletics will collect items at all home events over a 10-day stretch that will be sent directly to hurricane victims in the Bahamas. Opening on Friday, September 6th during volleyball’s Shark Invitational at Rick Case Arena,... Read More

Hurricane Dorian moving toward North Carolina’s Outer Banks as a Category 1 storm

Charleston, a historic port city of handsome antebellum homes, is on a peninsula that is prone to flooding even from ordinary storms. And it took an attack. Dorian toppled some 150 trees, swamped roads and brought down power lines, officials said, but the flooding and wind weren’t nearly as bad as feared. Several gusts of 75 to 80 mph were reported in Charleston Harbor early in the afternoon, as the storm’s eye moved just northeast of the city. ... Read More