Robert Wright Lee IV, the general’s great-great-great-great-nephew and pastor at North Carolina’s Bethany United Church of Christ, said that he believed it was time for statues of his ancestor to come down.

A federal judge ordered Baylor University to turn over information — including interview recordings and documents — it provided to a law firm it hired amid a sexual assault scandal that rocked the nation’s largest Baptist school.

The goal of truthtelling is not to decide who to blame and how to punish them. It is to learn who has been harmed, and how; and who must be involved, in what ways, to heal the wound.

Racist protests are not morally equivalent to counter-protests on behalf of racial equality and civil rights. They never have been and never will be.

There has been discussion about whether the president’s words were improvised or part of a strategy. There is a third dimension: a corrupted theology that could supply a misguided moral thrust to the president’s potential course of action.

At times, the cost of theological diversity is painfully clear.

Rim Hyon Su, also known as Hyeon Soo Lim, was accused by the state of using religion as a ruse to overthrow the government. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in December 2015.

When 53 percent of pastors agree that sometimes their congregations love America more than God that should be sounding alarm bells.

Neither the Bible nor Christian tradition supports a prominent Baptist pastor’s assertion that God has specifically ordained Donald Trump to “take out” the North Korean regime.