In a unanimous and bipartisan vote on Thursday, March 19, the Georgia House Judiciary Committee advanced SB-542, the Clergy Sexual Abuse Accountability Bill, following testimony from survivors, advocates and experts who described the realities of clergy sexual abuse and gaps…
Tennessee joins the fray on Ten Commandments law
The Tennessee Senate passed a bill March 19 mandating public schools display the Ten Commandments in all classrooms. The vote followed the February passage of a similar bill by the state House of Representatives and ignored a March 13 letter…
AWAB calls Baylor to give LGBTQ voices the same platform as TPUSA
Baylor University should grant LGBTQ students the same fairness and openness it has readily shown in allowing Turning Point USA to host an event on campus in April, the Association of Welcoming and Affirming Baptists said. “AWAB affirms the importance…
States weigh ‘pro-family’ laws on gender, speech, conscience, TPUSA
“Pro-family” groups affiliated with Focus on the Family are working to move state legislatures to the right with bills that grant “conscience rights” to medical workers, restrict students’ speech, define humans as male and female, promote Turning Point USA in…
Authors seek to counter Islamophobia
Christians opposed to Christian nationalism and President Donald Trump’s attacks on immigrants can push back in part by learning about Muslims and Islam, according to the Baptist authors of a new book on Islamophobia. “The Christian nationalism we are seeing,…
Markwayne Mullin has ties to Oklahoma theistic group
Those gleeful over the firing of Kristi Noem as U.S. secretary of Homeland Security should understand the senator nominated to succeed her is every bit a Christian nationalist, warns a native Oklahoman who leads a national network of progressive Christians….
Shannon Bream finds courage in Bible stories
Shannon Bream, host of Fox News Sunday, may not attend church on Sunday due to her work schedule, but she is a person of faith with a story to tell. Bream has written a new book titled Nothing Is Impossible…
Arkansas Ten Commandments law ruled unconstitutional
An Arkansas law requiring Ten Commandments displays in all public-school classrooms is unconstitutional because its sole intent is to convert students to Christianity, a federal court has ruled. “Act 573’s purpose is only to display a sacred, religious text in…
Judge orders Texas to extend deadline for school vouchers
A federal judge ordered Texas to extend its application deadline for private school vouchers in response to lawsuits filed by Muslims parents and schools excluded from the program. Four parents and three private Islamic schools involved in the litigation said…
She’s a conservative who was kicked off Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission
Carrie Prejean Boller said she was stunned to learn the White House Religious Liberty Commission is more focused on supporting Israel than on protecting the faith freedoms of Americans. And it was just as astounding that commission leaders attempted to…
US congregations appeal for peace with Cuba
Thirteen mainly Baptist congregations in the United States have issued a “Plea for Peace with Cuba” that describes a “moment of exceptional urgency” in the Caribbean nation. “We sound this call as those who have walked with and seen the…
Second Baptist Memphis seeks to save life of Afghan immigrant
A Baptist minister and other refugee advocates in Tennessee are working to prevent the Trump administration from deporting an Afghan Christian asylum seeker to almost certain death in her native country. They are seeking the release of Sakina, a 21-year-old…