The data post from Ryan Burge caught my eye — as usual. But one of the comments below the post really got my attention. “Let’s be real, non-denoms are basically Baptists,” the commenter said. This was in response to Burge’s...
Dissent is in my bones. I grew up in a First Baptist Church in Northeastern Oklahoma, known for rowdy business meetings. It was common for news of those meetings to spread through the community before closing prayer. Keep in mind,…
Every one of us has stood in a room where the truth needed saying and said nothing. We told ourselves it was not our place. We told ourselves someone else would speak. We studied our own shoes while another person…
On July 27, the Gordie Howe International Bridge opened to the public, traversing the Detroit River from Detroit to Windsor in Ontario, Canada. Efforts to build the bridge began back in 2012 with the formation of the Windsor-Detroit Authority. The…
About a year or so ago, actor Rainn Wilson posted on social media, “The metamorphosis of Jesus Christ from a humble servant of the abject poor to a symbol that stands for gun rights, prosperity theology, anti-science, limited government (that…
The U.S. Justice Department has charged a former Southern Poverty Law Center executive in connection with the government’s ongoing fraud case against the civil rights organization. Political extremism expert Heidi Beirich was arrested at her home in Palm Springs, Calif.,…
Confidence in the reliability of 2026 midterm elections is lower than that of any national referendum since Pew Research Center began asking the question. A recent study by Pew found just 55% of Americans believe the November elections will be…
It may be that the MAGA movement has fallen on hard times. Its president is faltering, with very poor approval ratings. The Iran war and the Epstein debacle have splintered the MAGA base. The administration appears to have little vision…
The Evangelical Press Association, which was founded in 1948 and counts more than 300 member organizations, publications and individuals that reach an audience of more than 20 million people, is weighing a name change and seeking a new executive director…
For the past year, when I’ve been in town and not traveling for work, I’ve attended a historic downtown congregation not far from where I live. Over the course of that year, I’ve gotten to know members of the church…
The federal government once employed a veterinarian as a food inspector. He inspected 75,000 chickens a week at a local poultry company. One day he made an interesting comment to a friend: “I never see a good chicken.” He went…
Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence has joined the faculty of Colorado Christian University as a visiting professor. Pence, who was vice president during Donald Trump’s first term as president but has since fallen out of favor with Trump, will…
When I was a child, my father taught me a little bit of truth can be used to camouflage a lot of falsifying. Today’s Republicans prove this every time they blame the Democratic Party for our racial divisions. Republicans like…
