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  Commentary: The value of centrism for the church

  Dennis Wiles, senior pastor of First Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas, explains the significance of centrism in the early church and today.

  06/19/2023 - By Dennis Wiles

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  Commentary: Forming and holding centrist convictions

  Travis Collins, senior pastor of First Baptist Church in Huntsville, Ala., describes centrist convictions and how one defines their own.

  06/12/2023 - By Travis Collins

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  Commentary: What is centrist?

  This article is 1 of 9 in the Leading from the Center series by three writers. From 1981 to 1992, I was a graduate student at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary….

  06/05/2023 - By Dennis Wiles

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  Commentary: Christian nationalists provoked a pluralist resistance

  A collective of Christian and non-Christian groups are working together to oppose Christian Nationalism for the preservation of democracy.

  04/25/2023 - By Ruth Braunstein / Religion News Service

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  Commentary: Baptist women in ministry across the globe

  Rev. Regina Claas, a leader in the Baptist World Alliance, describes how some navigate differing views of women in ministry throughout BWA.

  04/17/2023 - By Rev. Regina Claas

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  Commentary: Replace vengeance with mercy in death penalty policy

  Karen Swallow Prior considers the death penalty in light of Andre Thomas—a Texas man with severe mental illness and convicted of murder.

  03/08/2023 - By Karen Swallow Prior / Religion News Service

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  Commentary: A view on racism from South Africa

  In response to Editor Eric Black’s editorial on defining racism, Reg Munro offers a view on the question from his experience with apartheid.

  01/17/2023 - By Reg Munro

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  Commentary: Brightening Mr. Putts’ Christmas

  James Putt had plenty of friends, but he was still alone at Christmas. The Carter family turned one of his Christmases around.

  12/19/2022 - By Steve Carter

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  Commentary: Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’ has come to feel like home

  Karen Swallow Prior draws attention to what makes T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” a complex, Christocentric and celebrated poem.

  12/13/2022 - By Karen Swallow Prior / Religion News Service

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  Commentary: Why Americans are leaving their churches

  A British sociologist studying American religious trends suggests three reasons Americans are leaving their churches in higher numbers now.

  12/02/2022 - By Jana Riess / Religion News Service

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  Commentary: Does education ‘cure’ people of faith?

  Education affects religious belonging and belief, but not in the ways commonly assumed, political scientist Ryan Burge reports.

  11/14/2022 - By Ryan Burge / Religion News Service

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  Commentary: Too many good people put their head in the sand

  Putting our heads in the sand rather than confronting evil is negligence. And negligence is not only a vice—sometimes, it’s a crime.

  11/08/2022 - By Karen Swallow Prior / Religion News Service