One of the more infuriating and frightening aspects of Project 2025 is the audacity of its designers to openly promote the subversion of the U.S. government and Constitution, said Rachel Laser, president of Americans United for Separation of Church and…
Max Lucado will fill in at Gateway Church through the fall
It’s the church equivalent of the star of one popular TV show making a guest appearance for a story arc on a different popular TV show. There, it’s called a “crossover.” Seldom has there been a crossover in church life…
Elect me, and you’ll never have to vote again, Trump promises evangelicals
Vote for me this year, and you won’t have to vote ever again, Donald Trump told a group of evangelical Christians July 26. The Republican presidential nominee was speaking at The Believers’ Summit, an event hosted by Turning Point Action,…
Project 2025’s plan for mass deportations would make food prices soar
The percentage of Americans who want immigration levels to decrease has risen sharply in the past year despite the nation’s urgent need for foreign-born workers in agricultural and other labor industries. A Gallup poll released this month found 55% of…
SBC leader joins other evangelicals in private meeting with Netanyahu
One day after being not fired by his board of trustees, Brent Leatherwood joined a select group of evangelical leaders for a private meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington, D.C. Leatherwood, president of the Southern Baptist Convention…
Child Evangelism Fellowship celebrates legal victories against public schools
In recent years, conservative Christians have celebrated a number of Supreme Court victories, including overturning Roe v. Wade. But Child Evangelism Fellowship still celebrates a 2001 decision that “broke down the doors” of public schools for its after-school Good News…
First Baptist Dallas gets permission to try to save exterior walls of burned sanctuary
First Baptist Church of Dallas has received permission from the City of Dallas to try to preserve the exterior walls of its late 19th-century sanctuary after a four-alarm fire last week. Those red-brick walls appear to be all that remains…
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Black voters should be especially wary of Project 2025, speakers urge
Christian nationalism is “anti-blackness on steroids” with its attacks on voter rights, education and immigration, minister and racial justice advocate Cassandra Gould said during a webinar hosted by the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference. That “unholy trinity of Christian nationalism” is…