Landmark Baptists believed that an unbroken chain of Christians kept alive the true teachings of the New Testament.

Baylor University’s former athletics director has a clear interpretation of how its high-profile sexual-assault scandal unfolded two years ago: A handful of board members and university officials concocted a plan to ensure that the football team would take the fall.

One wonders if we have the same care for almost 3,000 children who have been ripped from their parents’ arms at the U.S./Mexico border as we did toward those 12 boys in Thailand who were trapped in a cave.

Mr. Carter returned to work on a building site after being taken to hospital for dehydration, while President Trump kicked back at the U.S. Women’s Open.

The presidency of Donald Trump has created unavoidable moral dilemmas for a distinct subset of Christians who are overwhelmingly white, overwhelmingly evangelical and more uniformly pro-Trump than any other part of the American electorate.

Whether they came to the U.S. alone, or were forcibly separated from their families at the border, despondent minors are often pressured into taking psychotropic drugs without approval from a parent or guardian. Related commentary: Inviolate! The protection of all…

Journalist and author Jeff Sharlet on the National Prayer Breakfast, Maria Butina, and the group that calls itself “the Family.”

For nearly half a century, abortion has been enshrined by our courts as a constitutional right. What will happen to our society if that ceases to be true?

Christian Nationalism has taken many forms over the years and certain versions of it are older than the United States itself.

I do not remember hugs or kisses or sweet-smelling pies. My first memory of my mother is her leaving me on the doorsteps of strangers, promising to return.

According to the FBI, when guns didn’t bring her to Trump, Butina tried again with God. An investigator described in court filings a series of contacts between Butina and an organizer for the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington.

The #metoo and #churchtoo movements have put SBC leaders on the defensive, as earlier revelations of widespread child sexual abuse by priests did to the all-male Roman Catholic hierarchy. Yet both groups continue to deny that there could be any…