They’ve arrested a judge. Not for corruption. Not for embezzlement. Not for abuse of power. But for what some are calling an act of conscience. On April 25, Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan was taken into federal custody by…
Letter to the Editor: Second Baptist Houston should be a caution to all churches
Dear Editor: I read the article about Second Baptist Church of Houston with great interest. I am a longtime member of a Baptist church and a professional registered parliamentarian. I have served various churches and religious organizations as a professional parliamentarian…
HUD returns to ‘mission-minded focus’ in first 100 days
As Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, I’m happy to return the Department to its mission-minded focus of helping the most vulnerable and often-forgotten Americans find affordable homes. That’s why, in February, I stopped enforcement of the…
Letter to the Editor: Oklahoma case is a big deal
Dear Editor: In response to the Supreme Court’s argument on religious public schools, April 30: To students of Colonial American history and the Bill of Rights, this is a potential big deal and worthy of attention. Colonial Baptists, Quakers, Presbyterians…
100 days of narcissistic megalomania
Donald Trump’s de facto campaign slogan throughout the 2024 presidential season was, “I am your retribution.” In countless ways during his first 100 days in office as the 47th president, Trump has seemed hell-bent on proving he meant it. Sometimes…
Firing Holocaust Memorial board members is about changing history’s story
When Donald Trump abruptly fired Doug Emhoff and other Biden appointees from the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, it wasn’t just a petty political maneuver — it was a warning flare about how empire behaves when it fears truth-tellers. This is…
This isn’t ‘their’ problem; it is ‘our’ problem
In June 2015, my wife and I were on a mission trip with students at a church where I previously served as a youth pastor. The trip had all the makings of a typical youth excursion; students leaving things behind,…
The church is what we do next
Toward the end of the movie Conclave, members of the College of Cardinals regroup following a series of bomb explosions that have rocked the Vatican. After a seasoned cardinal demands militant action against Muslims, a younger Cardinal speaks: No, my…
Trump’s tariffs are bad medicine
President Donald Trump’s tariffs are difficult to parse as viable economic policy. While he claims they will be good for the country, the obvious conclusion is that they are bad medicine that will not cure us but make us more…
Concerning diversity, equity and inclusion
“Love casts out fear,” says 1 John 4:18, concerning which the late John Claypool once observed, “As surely as love casts out fear, fear casts out love.” Fear casting out love may help explain the current national obsession with dismantling…
How to read the Bible through the eyes of thousands of languages
If you’re anything like me, you may regularly look up Scripture in more than one English translation, perhaps to get a fresh take on an otherwise familiar text, or maybe when a word in our most trusted English Bible seems…
Are you liberal or conservative?
These two words may be the most politically charged words in the English language. One of the problems is we have let politics, instead of the dictionary, define these words. The primary way to communicate is by the use of…