Here are most-read opinion and news headlines from 2016, as reported by Google Analytics.
Seven things I’m learning about transgender persons
In a May 15 article and follow-up, Mark Wingfield shared his perspective as a straight male trying to understand transgender issues as something deeper than a political debate over “bathroom bills.”
An open letter to Donald Trump on his recent Christian conversion
After James Dobson described the presidential candidate as a “baby Christian,” Miguel de la Torre welcomed his new brother in Christ with a sober reminder from Scripture that faith without works is dead.
North Carolina: Seeming rather than being
North Carolina native Greg Jarrell lamented the loss of his home state’s reputation as a place where the weak can grow strong.
When religious liberty demands cease to be legitimate
Amy Butler reminds that it’s easier to support religious liberty in the abstract than when the one facing exclusion is you.
A Christian feminist response to Baylor
Kyndall Rae Rothaus says Baylor University’s problems with sexism didn’t begin with violations of Title IX.
The fallacy in opposing ‘bathroom bills’
Russ Dean to Franklin Graham: Clergy claiming to speak for Christians need to err on the side of grace.
Most-read news stories:
Virgin Birth debate interrupts regular ‘War on Christmas’ program
Chapel speaker terms Calvinism ‘Trojan Horse’
Baptists join diverse faith groups to support mosque-building effort
‘Evangelical elite’ just doesn’t get it, claims pastor and Trump supporter
Transgender Baptist minister depends on ‘theology of survival’
Pastor in alleged sex abuse cover-up returns to preaching conference roster
DNC head challenged by faith leaders over exploitative payday lending
Tale of evangelical sex scandal hits Washington newsstands
Clergy from across U.S. to stand in solidarity with indigenous ‘water protectors’ at Standing Rock