Whenever someone has stood for honesty and just change on the basis of fact, inevitably someone will come along to oppose them on the grounds that something is lacking in their innate qualities as a person rather than the rightful…
The coat of many colors that covered the world
There are entertainers, there are legends, and then there are those rare human beings whose lives become part of the cultural fabric of a nation. Dolly Rebecca Parton was one of those people. The Tennessee-born country music legend, songwriter, actress,…
Our words matter but our lives matter more
I recently read Jordann McMahan’s powerful opinion piece at BNG about her experience as a queer student at Baylor University’s Truett Seminary. Jordann writes with remarkable vulnerability about an experience that is complicated. She does not paint every professor, student…
Hayden Panettiere, Lindsay Clancy and support for mothers
In her 2026 book This is Me: A Reckoning, Hayden Panettiere disclosed the brand Neutrogena discontinued her 10-year working relationship after she spontaneously spoke in 2015 on Live with Kelly and Michael identifying with her character on the show Nashville…
Dorie Miller: Give honor where honor is due
There are moments when changing a name is simply administrative. This is not one of them. The U.S. Navy is reportedly considering removing the name of Doris “Dorie” Miller, one of America’s most important World War II heroes, from the…
What comes after ‘Post-Evangelicalism’?
I am sometimes asked why post-evangelicals have created and are retaining an identity and name that carries forward the religion we have left behind. Doesn’t that just reinscribe the trauma? Doesn’t it confuse the effort to define ourselves now? Doesn’t…
Missing Black children deserve national attention
Many white Americans are questioning — even resenting — the continued focus by Black America on the disappearance and death of Nolan Wells. To them, he’s just a teenager who made some bad choices. To us, he’s another Black child…
Practicing gospel dissent: LIKE NOW?
One of the greatest Christian dissenters I’ve ever known was James M. Dunn, late chief executive of Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty and founding faculty member of Wake Forest University School of Divinity. Like his dissenting Baptist forebears, James…
I’m a mother asking the court to block Texas’ Ten Commandments law
I am a Baptist pastor in Texas, the mother of an elementary-school child and one of the plaintiffs in Nathan v. Alamo Heights Independent School District, a lawsuit challenging a Texas law (SB-10) that requires public schools to post the…
What The Dr. Daf Show reveals
Scroll through YouTube and you will find them — the “1 vs. 20” debates hosted by Michelle Daf on The Dr. Daf Show. One atheist, one Muslim, one New Age adherent sit across from 20 Christian women, and for five…
I shook hands with a transgender woman, and I’m fine
I shook hands with a transgender woman. I did not get cooties. I did not fear she would take over the plane. I did not have Satan ease into my being. Every July since 2013, I travel to San Diego…
I broke up with my alma mater
I broke up with my alma mater this week. Irreconcilable differences. A couple of my friends already have gone through this process. It’s a bit disjointing. A few weeks ago, I attended a fundraising luncheon hosted by my faith-based alma…