A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order April 1 requiring the Trump administration to resume funding legal services for unaccompanied minors with cases in immigration court. This on-again, off-again drama has taken multiple turns in the past month, including…
US needs to be ‘born again’ from fear and anger, Sojourners leader says
The United States must be transformed to find the moral compass it needs to survive the deep-seated fear and anger dividing Americans and threatening constitutional democracy, Sojourners President Adam Russell Taylor said. “Part of what we need in this moment…
Trump declares he has power over U.S. elections
Donald Trump, who claims he never lost an election that wasn’t rigged or stolen, issued an executive order last week declaring his authority to determine which American citizens can vote, how they vote, when they vote and how results are…
Some Baptist churches embrace Trail Life as alternative to Boy Scouts
Trail Life USA, a “boy-centered” and “Christ-centered” alternative to the Boy Scouts launched in 2014, has grown to 65,000 members, thanks in part to church partners, especially Baptists. Trail Life has 1,309 troops, 400 of them in Baptist churches. For…
Raushenbush will keynote BNG/AWAB breakfast in St. Louis
Baptist News Global and the Association of Welcoming and Affirming Baptists will co-sponsor a breakfast featuring Paul Raushenbush during the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship General Assembly this June. Raushenbush, an ordained Baptist minister, leads Interfaith Alliance, a Washington, D.C.-based group founded…
Judge picks apart Johnny Hunt’s claims against SBC point by point
With academic precision, a federal judge’s 74-page opinion picks apart Johnny Hunt’s lawsuit against the Southern Baptist Convention, SBC Executive Committee and Guidepost Solutions. The full decision was published April 1, the day after Judge William Campbell granted summary judgment…
Federal judge finds Trump TPS ruling ‘lacking in evidentiary support’
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from revoking the Temporary Protective Status of about 350,000 Venezuelans as a lawsuit against the federal government continues. U.S. District Judge Edward Chen issued a 78-page decision March 31 declaring the revocation…
Texas Senate passes Ten Commandments bill
Unwilling to be outdone by its neighbor to the East, the Texas Senate has passed a bill that would require the Ten Commandments be posted in all public school classrooms. The Louisiana Legislature passed a similar law last year that…
Kentucky Legislature overrides governor’s veto on conversion therapy bill
Kentucky’s Republican Legislature supports the discredited practice of conversion therapy so strongly that both houses overwhelmingly overrode Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto of a bill to allow the practice. House Bill 495 was proposed as an “emergency” measure to reinstate the…
High court appears sympathetic to Catholic Charities case against Wisconsin
As anticipated, the U.S. Supreme Court appeared sympathetic with Catholic Charities of Wisconsin March 31 in its case against the state of Wisconsin that could have national repercussions for other faith-based nonprofits. In oral hearings for Catholic Charities Bureau v….
Most of Hunt’s lawsuit against SBC thrown out by federal judge
“Pastor Johnny” will not be collecting $100 million from the Southern Baptist Convention as he had hoped. Almost all Johnny Hunt’s defamation lawsuit against the SBC, its Executive Committee and Guidepost Solutions was dismissed in summary judgment March 31 by…
CBFNC focuses on diversity, inclusion and ‘serving together’ amid trying times
Last week’s annual gathering of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina, hosted by Pritchard Baptist Church in Charlotte, centered the theme “Serving Together,” bringing forth unity in diversity among North Carolina congregations in the current political, social and economic…