Within hours of Christianity Today announcing that longtime pastor and scholar Nicole Massie Martin had been elected its next president and CEO, a familiar chorus of online racist and patriarchal critics declared the flagship evangelical magazine is no longer really…
Documentary spotlights healing for ex-cons through arts
As a former public access TV producer, I have a certain affection for low-budget documentaries. Filmmaking often is an expensive medium, and high-profile documentary filmmakers use all the same tricks and tools as blockbuster directors to great ends. They can…
Let’s change how we talk about immigrants
Conversations about immigration, especially on social media, reveal hard lines in the sand, a closed binary line of thinking, along with disgust, anger and outrage. Bring up immigration at the family Thanksgiving gathering, and the turkey may burn in the…
Meet the ‘transvestigators’
Erika Kirk has been no stranger to online scrutiny in the months since her husband, Charlie, was murdered. When she appeared on “The Charlie Kirk Show” just five days after his memorial service, many people were surprised at how bright…
Maybe you should read the comments because they’re now reality
“Never read the comments,” the sage wisdom of the internet says. That’s especially true on X, where internet trolls thrive unregulated. But sometimes the comments give you a sense of what some segment of the population is thinking and what…
Will Zohran Mamdani institute Sharia law in New York?
Zohran Mamdani is the mayor-elect of New York City, the largest city in the United States, and will take office on New Year’s Day 2026. Mamdani was born in Kampala, Uganda, and became a naturalized American citizen in 2018. He…
Unpacking the Catholic bishops’ statements on immigration
Conservative Catholics in the United States have had a rough week. From the openly gay ABC news anchor Gio Benitez being publicly confirmed in New York, to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops condemning the Trump administration’s immigration policies,…
What Kristi Noem and DHS won’t admit about clergy-led protests
Last Thursday night, I had dinner at the home of Baptist pastor Michael Woolf, his wife, Anna Piela, and their young daughter. We ate lasagna that Woolf had cooked. The next morning, a Reuters photo of Woolf’s arrest at a…
Former Charlotte mayor fears, ‘If you look brown, you’re going down’
The strangest thing about driving around Charlotte, N.C., today was how quiet it was. In hours of patrolling the city with a Baptist pastor and layman Nov. 17, we began to notice the absence of foot traffic in neighborhoods normally…
All are welcome — except those we don’t like
While white evangelicals like to brand their churches to their neighbors as cool and kind, their behavior toward their neighbors often is cruel. I recently came across a perfect example of this through the social media posts of Nate Schlomann,…
The ‘German (American) Christian’ faith movement
Mike Godwin was right. The longer an internet discussion goes on, the higher the likelihood someone will compare their opponent to the Nazis (colloquially known as Godwin’s Law). So, let me cut to the chase: I’m going to talk about…
Tuesday was a night for the ‘nones’
Tuesday night marked an interesting election cycle, even for an off-year election. Three major races dominated the conversation: The New York City mayoral race, the New Jersey gubernatorial race, and the Virginia gubernatorial race. What made these races interesting is…