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Robert Jeffress says schools should fight gun violence by teaching the Ten Commandments

On the heels of nationwide rallies calling for tougher gun laws, a Southern Baptist megachurch pastor and spiritual adviser to President Donald Trump suggested the real culprit behind school shootings is the separation of church and state.

‘I know I will be criticized’: The Latino evangelical who advises Trump on immigration

Mr. Rodriguez represents a singular voice in the immigration debate — the rare Latino in the small clique of evangelicals who serve as informal advisers to President Trump.

The tragedy of religious freedom

The challenge today is how to distinguish between, on the one hand, attempts to license discrimination that come cloaked in the language of religious freedom and, on the other hand, genuine disagreements about how people and institutions of vastly different convictions can live together in a pluralistic society.

A white Jesus can’t save a brown child

I was raised in a brown evangelical church in a small, predominantly white town in central Texas. Our “mother” church was one of the many First Baptist Churches in the Texas Bible Belt. Our congregation was composed mainly of poor, uneducated, largely undocumented migrants from rural Mexico. And while we were a brown church, the Jesus we worshiped was white.

Baptists come out winners — and losers — in omnibus spending bill

Causes advocated by U.S. Baptists were both winners and losers in a $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill passed by Congress that postpones another major budgetary showdown for at least six months.

Willow Creek congregation comes together to support pastor accused of misconduct, cleared in inquiries

During worship services and a two-hour gathering Friday that the church called a “family meeting,” Bill Hybels and elders walked members through three inquiries overseen by elders over the last four years, all of which cleared Hybels of misconduct.

After March For Our Lives, whisper words of wisdom, let it be

I am not ashamed to admit it. They made me do it. Cry. More than once. “They” being the uncommonly common students who led the March For Our Lives rally in Washington. The day may well be accounted as among the most significant in our nation’s history.

Frustration, fear and faith inspired youth to March for Our Lives

The diversity and scope of Saturday’s March for Our Lives was as surprising as it was inspiring, say many of the youth involved in the protests against gun violence in American schools that were held in Washington and around the nation. And for some of those, it was their Christian faith which prompted them to participate.

Poll reveals evangelical respect for Trump, Oprah and Obama

A poll conducted to gauge the importance registered voters place on political endorsements may also offer subtle hints about the state of evangelical support for Donald Trump. The Morning Consult survey, released March 15, sampled nearly 2,000 Americans to determine…

Pastor Robert Jeffress organizes ‘March for Eternal Life’

With tens of thousands of young people set to descend this weekend on the nation’s capital in a protest organized by survivors of a Feb. 14 school shooting in Florida, a Southern Baptist megachurch in Texas is planning a march…

Pressler lawsuit moved to federal court

A lawsuit alleging sexual abuse by a Houston layman active in Southern Baptist Convention politics in the 1970s and 1980s has been moved to federal court.

Supreme Court slides into partisanship

Before the fireworks, be careful what you drink

The contemptible case of Clarence Thomas

The permanent paradoxes of Christian thinking about war