Baptist News Global

12/24/2025

Consider including us in your 2025 year-end giving: https://bit.ly/4qdZpdB

12/24/2025

"I’m a DEI practitioner...DEI does not live or die by permission. It lives in practice. It lives in who we invite in. It lives in how we respond to the unexpected."
https://bit.ly/4pUEvAx

On Sunday afternoon, I put together a small surprise for my niece. Her mom was taking her to Disney, and I wanted the moment to feel real before the magic officially began. I bought shirts, pressed them myself, wrapped everything up. It took a couple of hours. It felt worth it. By the time we...

12/24/2025

"God’s faithfulness moves patiently through history, reshaped by judgment, sustained through trauma, entrusted to ordinary lives. Abraham began the story. Isaiah insisted it could survive collapse. Mary receives it into her body and carries it forward."
https://bit.ly/49dKOYJ

Advent teaches us how to live inside a promise that hasn’t yet finished unfolding. The light is thinner. The nights arrive early. We find ourselves listening more carefully, because certainty has loosened its grip. Scripture doesn’t rush to resolve this space. Instead, it gives us a song. Mary.....

12/24/2025

"The patience is not nonchalance. Waiting is not inertia. Longing is not wistfulness. This kind of waiting is the on-the-edge-of-your-seat, ever ready, hands readied for the labor to come."
https://bit.ly/4shiq0I

The photo below is not an award-winner, like those of so many highly publicized contests. But it will from this day forward shape my Advent imagination. This photo features Wanda Hernández Murga, coordinator of the Kairos Center, a ministry of Primera Iglesia Bautista in Matanzas, Cuba. She is stan...

12/24/2025

"In these final days of Advent, we are indeed living in dark times. And ironically, it has everything to do with our understanding of Christianity."
https://bit.ly/3L6L1EY

“Advent is the season that, when properly understood, does not flinch from the darkness that stalks us all in this world,” Fleming Rutledge says in Advent: The Once and Future Coming of Jesus Christ. In these final days of Advent, we are indeed living in dark times. And ironically, it has everyt...

12/24/2025

"Solidarity, lament and repentance. Whenever there is another act of antisemitic violence, I always think, with deep sadness and quiet repentance, of all the ways the church has sown the bitter seed of bigotry against the Jews."
https://bit.ly/4pSXhIv

Many mornings I go on a long, slow sunrise prayer walk — what the mystics call “goal-less walking” or “life lived at three miles an hour.” These days, in the neighborhood where I walk, there are a number of delightful inflatable front-yard Christmas decorations: Santas, Rudolphs and Frosty...

12/23/2025

"For a holiday centered on the Prince of Peace, a lot of folks spend an extraordinary amount of time feeling threatened."
https://bit.ly/4pcMV57

The calendar flips to December and the old, familiar talking points begin. The White House tweeted, “We’re saying MERRY CHRISTMAS again!” along with a photo of President Donald Trump standing stiffly next to a Christmas tree. Laura Ingraham has warned Fox News listeners, “The Left is ramping...

12/23/2025

"In this season where we celebrate the gifts of the wise men of frankincense, gold and myrrh, an orange obtained with great sacrifice and given with extravagant love is just as precious."
https://bit.ly/4jhzyzk

Things were not merry and bright for Edison Cantwell and his five children during the 1932 Christmas season. Christmas was not a welcome time for the Cantwells. Even so, the Christmas of 1932 was going to be a memorable one. Technically, the Great Depression was over in Linn County, Kan. Linn County...

12/23/2025

"One of those killed was Miguel Angel Garcia-Hernandez. He was shot multiple times while shackled in a government transit van during the attack. He used his body to shield another detainee, who survived."
https://bit.ly/49654vr

I am one of the clergy members who has been holding vigil outside the Dallas ICE field office since May. After a gunman opened fire at the back of the facility in September, our weekly prayer vigil transformed into a daily presence. These days, we maintain an onsite comfort and care station manned b...

12/23/2025

The University of Oklahoma is the latest school to debase itself in deference to Donald Trump and evangelical Christians’ false claims of religious persecution.
https://bit.ly/45o4g3L

The University of Oklahoma is the latest school to debase itself in deference to Donald Trump and evangelical Christians’ false claims of religious persecution. Trump and white evangelicals have this in common: Both claim persecution when they are instead the persecutors. By now you’ve probably ...

12/23/2025

This is my final letter to you this season of Advent. Lest we journey too fast to Nativity, we pause one final time to consider the femininity of pregnant waiting for the child to come.
https://bit.ly/49n9G1o

"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” — Maya Angelou   Dear Mary, This is my final letter to you this season of Advent. Lest we journey too fast to Nativity, we pause one final time to consider the femininity o...

12/23/2025

Will you help us tell the story ?

We rely on the support of readers like you to continue our critical faith-based reporting at a moment where autocracy is on the march and fascism is back in fashion. Consider including us in your year-end giving this year.

Tap here to donate now: https://bit.ly/4qdZpdB