Speaker of the House Mike Johnson’s foray into biblical exegesis reveals nothing new but does rehash an old evangelical template of “two kingdom” theology. In Johnson’s view, nations and governments are immune from God’s judgment when they oppress those labeled…
Cities Church isn’t being persecuted for righteousness
MAGA churches are not being persecuted for righteousness but for not loving their neighbors. They are being persecuted by unexpected judgment like Jesus cleansing the temple. Cities Church in St. Paul, Minn., is not being persecuted for faithfulness to the…
Stephen Miller is Plato’s original playground bully
Stephen Miller, President Donald Trump’s muse and adviser, told Jake Tapper of CNN, “We live in a world in which you can talk all you want about international niceties and everything else, but we live in a world, in the…
Sen. Schmitt goes all in on white supremacy
When Sen. Eric Schmitt gave the keynote address at the 2025 National Conservatism Conference, he hung on America a discredited sign once found on all public bathrooms in the South, “Whites Only.” In his speech, titled “What is an American?”…
Texas Senate primary pits white Social Gospel against Black Church tradition
The stage is set for a Democratic Senate primary in Texas with one candidate who is trying to convince fellow Texans to love all their neighbors and one who refuses to turn the other cheek. James Talarico is easygoing and…
JD Vance’s Fifty Shades of Lies
JD Vance sells lies in various shades: Pants on fire, bald-faced lies, falsehoods, conspiracies, half-truths, political lies. The vice president, speaking at the Turning Point USA rally just before Christmas, told more lies in a single speech than any politician…
I’ll side with the Catholics on this one
ICE came to Baton Rouge for Christmas, and at least one Southern Baptist pastor welcomed them. Lewis Richerson, pastor of Woodlawn Baptist Church, told The New York Times, “I would not knowingly extend Communion to an illegal immigrant who is…
Are all undocumented immigrants criminals?
In the debate over U.S. immigration policy, MAGA conservatives begin with the premise that anyone who crosses the border into the U.S. without advance permission is breaking the law. Therefore, the very act of entering the country is a crime….
Jeffress is a hypocrite testifying against Johnson Amendment
Robert Jeffress testified before the president’s Religious Liberty Commission this week how he and his downtown Dallas church have been persecuted, while failing to acknowledge his own persecution of other religious groups. The pastor of First Baptist Dallas publicized in…
Is this really the second-most-important book of the year?
I am puzzled that Christianity Today selected The Body God Gives: A Biblical Response to Transgender Theory, by Robert S. Smith, as the second most important book of 2025. Surely we have more serious concerns than another evangelical attack on…
Homan defies Scripture and church in defense of immigration policy
“The Catholic Church is wrong” stated Tom Homan, the Trump administration’s ICE man. Homan and other MAGA elites were triggered by a statement released by America’s Catholic bishops. Conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer screeched, “It’s sad to see the Catholic Church…
RFK Jr. and the perfect storm of idiocy threaten us all
What would it have been like to be on a fishing trawler in the Atlantic in the perfect storm? A “perfect storm” is a meteorological event aggravated by a rare combination of circumstances. The phrase became the title of a bestselling book in…