Former Fox and NBC News personality Megyn Kelly proclaimed on her Sirius XM podcast that she did not believe at first that Jeffrey Epstein was a pedophile because “somebody very, very close to this case” told her Epstein preferred the…
Baptist legislator rejects Trump’s redistricting scheme
President Donald Trump asked Texas Republicans in July to take the unprecedented step of redrawing five state congressional maps to favor the GOP. They complied the next month, followed by legislatures in Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio. California countered with…
American Baptist leaders praise clergy protesting ICE
Leaders of the American Baptist Home Mission Societies issued a statement Nov. 18 offering support for clergy who have been arrested while protesting ICE, including an American Baptist pastor in the Chicago area. While many Mainline Protestant clergy have been at the…
The history of America’s ‘theology of suspicion’
The Trump administration’s vilification and authorization of violence against peaceful protesters at migrant detention centers may be appalling and terrifying but it is nothing new, scholar Sergio González said during the 2025 Shurden Lectures. “The question — When did mercy…
ACA Marketplace increases are slamming church budgets
Church and denominational staffs are scrambling to find employee health insurance alternatives in the event Affordable Care Act subsidies expire at the end of the year. Their dilemma results from Congress’ failure to extend the expiring tax credits as part…
Most college students disagreed with Charlie Kirk
A whopping 94% of American college students had heard of Charlie Kirk before the time of his death, but only 30% of students said they agreed with his views. As the founder of Turning Point USA, Kirk portrayed himself as…
‘It’s time for America and Congress to wake up’
It’s time for America to wake up and for Congress to wake up to the devastation being wrought by the Trump administration, Skye Perryman told the Texas Tribune Festival Nov 14. Perryman, president of Democracy Forward, was among four panelists…
More turnover at Christianity Today
In a further sign of change at Christianity Today, one of the magazine’s best-known writers and editors has resigned, saying he has “significant disagreements with the new leadership, both practical and philosophical.” Senior News Editor Daniel Silliman posted news of…
Mercer names first female president
Penny Elkins has been named president of Mercer University and will assume that post Jan. 1 upon the retirement of William Underwood. Elkins has been a member of Mercer’s faculty and senior administration for more than 25 years and currently…
Look to a different future, Buttigieg advises
Things in the United States are even worse than they appear, and the hope is not in rebuilding the systems that have been destroyed by Donald Trump, Pete Buttigieg told the Texas Tribune Festival Nov. 14. The former U.S. secretary…
Camp Mystic’s owners hit with four lawsuits
Camp Mystic in Texas is the target of at least four new state lawsuits related to the deaths of 25 campers and two teenage counselors during catastrophic flash flooding July 4. An estimated 135 people in the Hill Country region…
US bishops choose leader accused of ‘enabling’ abusive priests
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops elected conservative Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City as its new president Nov. 11. The move by the American Catholic Church drew both calls for unity from the new leader and a…