Baylor University and the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship have announced a joint venture that will place three CBF field personnel — missionaries — on campus to guide students in responding to God’s call to ministry. Baylor is a Baptist heritage university…
Radical Christian theology appears to have shaped Minnesota shooter
The Minnesota man accused of shooting two state legislators and their spouses may have been driven by anti-abortion views shaped by some of the nation’s most radical and potentially violent Christian movements, educated observers say. Vance Boelter, 57, has been…
Post-COVID, church-shifting has created more ideological agreement
The COVID pandemic facilitated a greater sorting of churchgoers into more ideological groups than before, according to new nationwide data from Hartford Institute for Religion Research. This is one of several key findings from the National Survey of Church Attenders…
Trump is sending Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans packing
The Trump administration has begun terminating temporary legal status for more than 500,000 migrants awaiting immigration proceedings. The Department of Homeland Security started issuing termination notices June 12 to Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans enrolled in the CHNV parole program….
‘All the Buried Women’ podcast weaves a story of women and abuse in the SBC
Beth Allison Barr is well-known for her two bestselling books — The Making of Biblical Womanhood and Becoming the Pastor’s Wife — but now she’s added podcaster to her resume. Baylor University students know Barr as a history professor, but…
Truett McConnell faculty chairs went straight to trustees
The jury is out on the long-term damage to Truett McConnell University brought by a sexual abuse scandal, but the next few weeks will prove critical. News broke May 29 that a former coed had accused a former vice president…
Arkansas parents say, ‘Thou shall not’ to Ten Commandments law
A group of Arkansas parents has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to block a new state law requiring Ten Commandments displays in public school classrooms. Seven families with students in public schools filed the litigation June 11 in the U.S….
Indiana attorney general targets DePauw and Butler over DEI
United Methodists in Indiana have officially backed UMC-related DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind., for its continued support of diversity and inclusion in the face of a threat from the state’s attorney general to strip its nonprofit status unless it complies…
Americans United sues over Anti-Christian Bias Task Force
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is refusing to respond to a Freedom of Information Act request from Americans United for Separation of Church and State, prompting AU to sue the Trump administration. The lawsuit contends the VA is violating federal…
Trump administration says it will deport abused and neglected children
The federal government can now deport abandoned, abused and neglected children even if they have been granted Special Immigrant Juvenile status. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced the change June 6, the same day it went into effect. The action…
Trump’s actions in LA are popular only with Republicans
Nearly half of Americans are opposed to the deployment of U.S. Marines and National Guard troops to Los Angeles to quell protests against President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign. A June 9 CBS News/YouGov poll found 45% of adults surveyed…
Supreme Court sides with woman alleging discrimination as a heterosexual
The U.S. Supreme Court sided with an Ohio woman who claimed to be the victim of reverse discrimination because she is heterosexual. Justices ruled unanimously June 5 that a federal appellate court erred in determining Marlean Ames’ majority-status sexual orientation…