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Preaching legend and longtime professor Robert Smith Jr. is retiring after years of scholarship, accolades, and personal loss.

The debate over women pastors is a Southern Baptist smoke screen The fiery arguments distract from constructive conversations about entrenched racism, Christian nationalism and sexual abuse. Messengers vote on motions during the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention at the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex on June 11, 2019, in Birmingham, Alabama. RNS photo by Butch Dill May 14, 2021 (RNS) — Over the past two weeks, Christian leaders and commentators have bee...

(RNS) — It rained today in Texas. The sudden downpour caught me unaware. But even as it drenched my shoes, I couldn’t help smiling. Three days ago, seminary president Al Mohler compared the growing threat of women preachers in the Southern Baptist Convention to a coming rainstorm. “At first, there is only a small cloud,” he wrote. “Soon thereafter, here comes the downpour. Well, here it comes.”  As I watched the water stream around my feet, overflowing dips in the sidewalk and floo...