The Texas Baptist pastor who found himself at the center of a Supreme Court case on religious liberty for Death Row inmates was able to fulfill that inmate’s wishes as he was put to death by the State of Texas…
Time is running out for DACA, and immigration advocates say it’s immoral for Congress not to act
The need for Congress to end its decades-long failure to address immigration reform took on immediate urgency Oct. 5 when the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals deemed the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy illegal. For Dreamers who have lived…
Advocacy group names 20 ‘false prophets’ of Christian nationalism
A group battling Christian nationalism has released a list of 20 “false prophets” it claims “routinely hijack faith for political purposes.” The new effort by Faithful America doesn’t deal in generalisms but names names. The list is published online at AmericanFalseProphets.org,…
PRRI’s Structural Racism Index attempts to quantify racist beliefs
How do you measure racism? In the contemporary American battleground of politics, culture and religion, people often call out others for being racist, and those accused often reply, “I’m not a racist.” Still others proudly wear the label “racist” as…
Atlanta Baptist pastor prays an imprecatory Psalm against Republican candidate’s foes
A Southern Baptist pastor in Atlanta prayed an imprecatory Psalm against opponents of a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate Oct. 4, according to an exclusive report by Brian Kaylor of Word&Way. Although media were turned away from the “prayer…
As Trump rallies voters to hate immigrants, new research shows more evangelicals are listening to the Bible’s welcome
While Donald Trump continues to rally conservative evangelicals to his anti-immigrant campaign, new research from a conservative evangelical organization finds fewer Christians are buying what Trump is selling. As recently as a Sept. 17 rally in Youngstown, Ohio, Trump vocalized…
On question of what to do with Confederate monuments, Americans are all over the map
While Americans are nearly evenly divided on whether monuments and memorials to the Confederacy should stay up or be taken down, there is even less agreement about what should be done with those monuments, according to new polling data from…
Samford loves all people but won’t advance ‘other expressions of sexuality,’ president tells students in video
“Each person will be loved unconditionally” but Samford University “will continue to stand on God’s word” and will not “celebrate and advocate for other expressions of sexuality than those historically supported” by the Baptist school, President Beck Taylor told students…
53 years later, The CenturyMen choir goes out singing
It was the late 1960s. Musical variety shows were all the rage, and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir was selling millions of records and appearing often on television. That’s when three leaders at the Southern Baptist Convention’s Radio and Television Commission…