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November 2018

November 14, 2018

CBF Podcast: Live from the General Assembly Podcast Stage

The CBF Podcast Stage featured interviews with theologians, church historians, remarkable leaders, and practitioners. Presenting...

August 2018

August 22, 2018

Six Thoughts on Faith-Based Advocacy

There are matters of dire need in our world that require our attention now. If...

July 2018

July 02, 2018

CBF Podcast: Responding to inhumane treatment of immigrant children, featuring Suzii Paynter

CBF Executive Coordinator Suzii Paynter recently spent a week at the United States-Mexico border where...

May 2018

May 11, 2018

Faithful Advocacy: Living into the tension

The way forward is to root the long-term advocacy priorities of our congregations and of...

April 2018

April 10, 2018

CBF Podcast: Changing the Way the Church Sees Racism, Featuring Drew Hart

We are 50 years removed from the Civil Rights Movement and we can often act...

February 2018

February 26, 2018

CBF Podcast: A Conversation with Jennifer Harvey

In Harvey’s new book, Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America,...

February 20, 2018

CBF Podcast: A Conversation with Melvin Bray

By Andy Hale We live such transient lives. For most, we no longer live in...

January 2018

January 15, 2018

From Protest to Beloved Community

Protest was and is the means to this holy end. Protest, in its many different...

December 2017

December 06, 2017

Being church to abuse survivors

As a culture we do not do a good job of creating space for survivors...

November 2017

November 07, 2017

Baptist advocates release DREAMer video testimonies, urge action for DACA recipients

CBF Advocacy urges people of faith and all others who stand #WithDREAMers to contact their...

October 2017

October 18, 2017

You Too?

This week my Facebook feed filled up with stories around the hashtag #MeToo. Maybe yours...

September 2017

September 25, 2017

Podcast: A Conversation with Alexia Salvtierra

Alexia Salvatierra is an ELCA pastor and immigration activist, founder of the Faith-Rooted Organizing UnNetwork,...

September 20, 2017

Stories of DREAMers

“If DACA ends, life as I know it will end, too. I won’t be able...

August 2017

August 29, 2017

Support DREAMers, Support the DREAM Act

I accept that thoughtful Christians may disagree on public policy, and I certainly acknowledge my...

August 22, 2017

Dear Fellow WASPS — For the love of God and the love of thy neighbor

When we love our heritage, our flag, or our statues more than we love our...

August 21, 2017

Why the Lost Cause is Winning

The problem, however, is that the very monuments that embody white Southerners necessarily disembody people...

August 16, 2017

Hate must not find a home

Sometimes pastors are cautioned about bringing politics into the pulpit. We must remember that the...

August 15, 2017

Confessions of a “moderate Christian” in Charlottesville on August 12

They say that confession is good for the soul. I pray that my confession may...

August 14, 2017

Conversations with my four-year-old about Charlottesville

“I don’t know, because we all matter to God.” This answer was at best incomplete....

August 12, 2017

Fear and Fearlessness in Charlottesville

Fear pervaded Charlottesville, Virginia. But fearlessness, both by those who led the counter-protests and those...

May 2017

May 19, 2017

Embracing Our Neighbor

CBF Advocacy provides the means to speak effectively and organize strategically when migrants face the...

May 15, 2017

The Johnson Amendment and the Christian Voice in the Public Square

Jesus teaches that we live in a world that celebrates an ethic of fairness—and eye...

May 09, 2017

Just One Little Kiss: A Case of Clergy Sexual Abuse

Just one account of the trauma caused from clergy sexual misconduct and the years that...

March 2017

March 31, 2017

“Don’t Panic”

All of those commands take courage. They take a faith that is, if not ironclad,...

March 24, 2017

5 Ways Churches Can Support Foster and Adoptive Families

A Cooperative Baptist seminarian in Texas shares five ways that churches can support foster and...

February 2017

February 17, 2017

A Pastoral Word To Our President

Dear President Trump: I occasionally write my parishioners a word of encouragement after having prayed...

February 08, 2017

The cost of unity

Last Thursday, February 2, was Groundhog’s Day! But, I’ve been seeing a different kind of...

January 2017

January 31, 2017

Postponing Love in an Airport

I am not original here in my plea to the church, nor do I think...

January 30, 2017

Cooperative Baptists minister to refugees and immigrants despite order barring travel to the U.S.

With a swipe of the presidential pen last week, the United States turned its back...

January 26, 2017

Francis, Forrest and Race

And part of our privilege as white people is the freedom to speak up…or not…because...

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