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  Commentary: Why add Nicene Creed to our confession?

  The four Southern Baptists moving to add the Nicene Creed to the Baptist Faith and Message respond to questions about their motion.

  06/05/2024 - By Andrew Brown, Stephen Lorance, Steven McKinion & Malcolm Yarnell

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  Commentary: A different letter to college freshmen

  An adolescent and young adult therapist and Baptist Standard reader pens a letter to college freshmen in response to a previous letter.

  05/28/2024 - By Mindy Ward

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  Commentary: Stay focused, Baylor

  A Baylor University graduate responds to the Baylor Board of Regents’ recent decision to amend the university’s motto.

  05/24/2024 - By John Kitch II

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  Commentary: SBC CEO on the Law Amendment

  Jeff Iorg, new president and CEO of the SBC Executive Committee, gives a thorough explanation of his opposition to the Law Amendment.

  05/22/2024 - By Jeff Iorg / SBC Executive Committee

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  Commentary: Three concerns about the Law Amendment

  The Tennessee convention executive director voices his opposition to the so-called Law Amendment up for a second vote this summer.

  05/06/2024 - By Randy Davis

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  Commentary: The significance of prayer for believers

  “Christians continue to be transformed by the Lord and find the solitude and comfort he supplies through such actions as prayer.”

  04/29/2024 - By David Crum

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  Commentary: Christians must confront weaponization of a sacred promise

  A Palestinian Christian challenges particular uses of God’s promise to Abraham, calling for “embodying the grace Jesus showed to all.”

  04/24/2024 - By Fares Abraham / Religion News Service

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  Commentary: 10 reasons not to do VBS in your church

  David Johnson, executive director of Arizona Mission Network of Southern Baptists, gives 10 good reasons not to do Vacation Bible School.

  04/09/2024 - By David Johnson

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  Commentary: ‘Christian nationalism’ is not the most perilous part

  Matthew Taylor describes the prominent theological positions advancing Christian nationalism and sounds a warning about their aims.

  04/08/2024 - By Matthew D. Taylor / Religion News Service

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  Commentary: A Palestinian Christian’s call to confront Zionism

  A Palestinian Christian critiques Zionism and its claims to fulfilling biblical prophecy, while also affirming the rights of Jewish people.

  04/03/2024 - By Jack Nassar

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  Commentary: Mohler, abortion abolitionists don’t take sin seriously enough

  “True accountability requires communal accountability,” Karen Swallow Prior writes in her critique of Mohler and abortion abolitionists.

  04/02/2024 - By Karen Swallow Prior / Religion News Service

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  Commentary: Christians’ lives should match talk of love

  “What we say and what we do should be synonymous. There should be no difference between what we say we believe and how we live.”

  03/18/2024 - By Robert Ritzenhein