“They stole $77,000. And that was all of my savings.” Her voice was so soft I (Doug) had to lean in to hear her. “I’ve talked with the local police, the FBI and the Federal Trade Commission. The money is...
After a critical decline in health, Stephanie Erin Leonard passed away peacefully at the Kate B. Reynolds Hospice Home in the early hours of Nov. 26. Her parents, Candyce and Bill Leonard, were at her bedside. Stephanie was born in…
Austin Smith, the former director of Turning Point Action, the political arm of Turning Point USA, pled guilty to attempted election fraud for his effort to forge signatures while running for reelection to the Arizona Legislature. When Smith was indicted…
“We planned our funerals around that promise.” Bert Ross remembers the paperwork he signed in December 2010, when he and nearly a hundred others were pushed out of the Southern Baptist Convention’s North American Mission Board in a large downsizing….
The recent atmospheric shift felt by many across the country wasn’t hell freezing over — it was Marjorie Taylor Greene apologizing for years of participating in what she called “toxic politics,” taking responsibility for herself and her own actions. For those of…
As the nation looks to the holidays and fallout from the longest government shutdown in history, funds are slowly becoming available to fund SNAP programs for 42 million Americans. At the same time, the Make America Healthy Again movement is poised to resurrect a…
There are indications this year’s MAGA family Thanksgiving gathering may be contentious. Pre-Thanksgiving arguments and disagreements threaten to spill into scraps and splits at the family meal. After more than 10 years of party loyalty and unity, the MAGA family…
Baptist News Global provides a free listing of ministry-related jobs for Baptist churches, theological institutions and organizations across the United States. Each free posting is for 30 days and is limited to 150 words. Postings may be extended another 30…
With families traveling long distances by car this week, there’s likely to be a resurgence of one of the most beloved of all time-passing games, Twenty Questions. In that spirit, I’ve come up with 20 questions for the leadership of…
Over the last couple of weeks, I sat down to write my Thanksgiving message several times, only to scrap every draft. Try as I may, I find myself incapable of penning some sappy tribute to the season. Don’t get me…
President Donald Trump’s social media rant pledging to revoke Temporary Protected Status for Somali immigrants in Minnesota was an extension of the “Israel First” argument with American conservatism, a U.S. Muslim leader said. The “Israel First” movement holds that American…
As Thanksgiving dinner dishes clink and clatter this Thursday afternoon, millions of Americans will open their phones and begin playing Christmas music. One of the EP’s they’ll likely see is “A Soulful Christmas,” which contains four songs by a new…
Within hours of Christianity Today announcing that longtime pastor and scholar Nicole Massie Martin had been elected its next president and CEO, a familiar chorus of online racist and patriarchal critics declared the flagship evangelical magazine is no longer really…
