The U.S. Supreme Court abandoned science, fairness and common sense in its June 18 decision upholding a state’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth, civil rights and legal experts said. The 6-3 ruling in U.S. v. Skrmetti found Tennessee’s…
Summerville named to lead Baptist Peace Fellowship
William Moses Summerville has been named executive director of Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America. The announcement of the organization’s first Black executive director coincided with Juneteenth, which Summerville said was a happy alignment. “Being Black American, this call to…
Does Jeff Iorg really believe Christa Brown and Tiffany Thigpen are liars?
The most persistent denier of a sexual abuse crisis in the Southern Baptist Convention now says SBC Executive Committee President Jeff Iorg agrees with him that the stories of two key abuse survivors are false. In a June 18 email…
Great Rivers Fellowship empowers churches with community engagement grants
Great Rivers Fellowship, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship regional organization made up of communities in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi, has awarded eight Community Engagement grants to local communities. These grants totaled $7,750 and support diverse local initiatives. Local churches and communities…
GOP and Christian legal group battle ‘Censorship-Industrial Complex’
“I have stopped all government censorship and brought back free speech in America,” President Donald Trump told Congress in March. “It’s back.” He was referring to one of the many executive orders he signed on inauguration day: “Restoring Freedom of…
Republican budget would tax remittances to families abroad
Foreign nationals working in the U.S. will have to pay a 5% excise tax on money they send family in other countries if Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill” becomes law. Known as remittance transfers, the transactions are a crucial way…
Most books banned from Naval Academy are back on shelves
Nearly all the 381 books pulled from the U.S. Naval Academy Library in April are back on the shelves after the Pentagon instituted its own criteria for banning books. “I am thrilled to report that, as a result of the…
Majority of Americans oppose ‘big beautiful bill’
President Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill” passed by the U.S. House of Representatives is opposed by far more Americans than approve of it, according to new research from Navigator. The national polling firm surveyed a representative sample of American voters…
Ministry jobs and more
Baptist News Global provides a free listing of ministry-related jobs for Baptist churches, theological institutions and organizations across the United States. Each free posting is for 30 days and is limited to 150 words. Postings may be extended another 30…
International student visa ban threatens bilingual mission school
Carla Cardoza, president of United Methodist-related Lydia Patterson Institute in El Paso, Texas, has been telling this story at annual conference sessions across the denomination’s South Central Jurisdiction since May 28: “Karla is a rising senior at LPI. She has…
‘Big beautiful bill’ is ugly, BJC webinar shows
President Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill” is downright ugly when it comes to education, health care and hunger, social justice advocates said during a webinar hosted by Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty. The gigantic budget measure now before the…
Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission repeats evangelical grievances
The first meeting of President Donald Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission was an exercise in airing conservative evangelical grievances, much like the first meeting of his Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias, according to observers. The religious liberty meeting was held…