I write often about how politics is not the only thing to care about if you are a Christian. However, it is indeed one thing to care about, one very important thing. I have found Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s guidance very helpful...
Christianity Today has named a new editor in chief, continuing a reset after Russell Moore left the post in October 2025. One year ago next week, Moore was replaced by Marvin Olasky, then age 75 and a controversial figure in…
Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert died over the weekend at age 84. His death closes the life of a man who occupied one of the most powerful offices in the United States and whose public reputation collided catastrophically with…
I write often about how politics is not the only thing to care about if you are a Christian. However, it is indeed one thing to care about, one very important thing. I have found Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s guidance very helpful…
Christa Pike remained unconscious and under guard in a Nashville hospital days after a botched lethal injection that led to the resignation of the state’s top corrections official. Two rounds of pentobarbital over a two-hour period could not kill the…
Nearly 90% of Americans believe government corruption is pervasive as the nation nears the midterm elections, according to a new Gallup survey. The 89% who said the problem is “widespread” was up 10 points from last year, reached the highest…
James Orsen Bakker, who transformed Christian evangelism via television, died Oct. 5 at age 86. Bakker and his first wife, Tammy Faye Bakker, were hosts of the daily TV show The PTL Club and built a Christian vacation village in…
Letting Iran bomb Los Angeles and San Diego would be a “small price to pay” for the U.S. intervention in Iran, President Donald Trump told a rally in Grand Island, Neb., Oct. 5. The inflammatory comments have been confirmed by…
Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde appears in a new video ad urging all people to vote. The bishop, who made headlines in January 2025 for urging President Donald Trump at his inaugural prayer service to “have mercy” on immigrants and the…
The Trump administration has raised the nation’s annual refugee admissions cap from 7,500 to 17,500 for the coming year but again dictated that the vast majority must be white South Africans. President Donald Trump slashed the 125,000 person resettlement goal…
When I worked in death-penalty communications, words such as “execution,” “death warrant,” “clemency” and “lethal injection” began to sound like the ordinary vocabulary of public policy. There is nothing ordinary about what those words mean. Last week’s failed execution of…
American Baptist Churches USA has administered tens of thousands of dollars in emergency assistance to Haitian communities besieged by federal immigration actions since losing Temporary Protected Status. The denomination’s American Baptist Home Mission Societies announced it has provided $135,000 through…
President Donald Trump is using $20 million in Homeland Security funds to air a dozen TV ads praising him and his achievements, including “PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST,” a month before midterm elections. One ad, “Final Battle,” was used in…
