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Against the grain: Rethinking the Whig interpretation of history

The Whig interpretation of history, famously critiqued by Herbert Butterfield in 1931, remains one of the most seductive frameworks in modern historical consciousness. It offers a narrative of inevitable progress — a story in which the past leads inexorably to…

The God I don’t believe in

Years ago while serving as a parish pastor, I visited an inactive member of my new congregation. Although he used to attend regularly, he quit coming after his wife died. By the time I arrived at the church, he had…

Jeffress is a hypocrite testifying against Johnson Amendment

Robert Jeffress testified before the president’s Religious Liberty Commission this week how he and his downtown Dallas church have been persecuted, while failing to acknowledge his own persecution of other religious groups. The pastor of First Baptist Dallas publicized in…

Trump’s new envoy wants to wage ‘pro-Semitism’ campaign

Donald Trump’s new antisemitism envoy said he plans to wage a “pro-Semitism” campaign that will aggressively challenge false narratives about Jews and Israel. “Our goal is to lower the rhetoric around the globe immediately,” Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun, U.S. Ambassador-designate to…

Trump’s HUD reverses cuts to housing aid after lawsuit threat

The Trump administration suddenly reversed course Dec. 10 on a planned shift in housing policy that would have sent hundreds of thousands of children and adults into homelessness during the winter months, according to advocacy groups. The move came just…

Affirmed yet not ordained?

As Meredith Stone of Baptist Women in Ministry announced the results of the State of Women in Ministry 2025 report, she said this: “BWIM has counted 2,856 Baptist women ordained to the gospel ministry.” My immediate reaction was, there has…

Heads spin as Kirk Cameron gives up eternal conscious torment

“It’s one of the doctrines of the Bible that atheists love to point out as one of the reasons why they could never believe in the God of the Bible,” Kirk Cameron said on his podcast last week. “It’s the God who…

Transferring from Anxiety University to Gratitude College

From the front desk of the YMCA where I work during the early morning hours, I notice a lot of interesting T-shirt designs. On Monday of Thanksgiving week, a woman approaching the check-in scanner was wearing one that read, “Anxiety…

Learning from Trump’s unnatural impatience

Maybe Donald Trump is just a rich guy who is impatient and wants to get richer. He figured out that to get really rich, Musk-rich, you need to have political power, the more the better. Specifically, he must have reasoned,…

Understanding our imperial president’s triumphal architecture

Authoritarian regimes use architecture to reshape what the public believes by saturating public spaces with political symbols, edifices and monuments. President Donald Trump’s plan to add a Roman triumphal arch to the Washington, D.C., cityscape near the Lincoln Memorial is…

What will MAGA Christianity look like in a post-Trump world?

When Donald Trump read the political tea leaves and urged House Republicans to vote for the release of the Epstein files, speculation was rampant. Did this mean Trump’s hold over the GOP was beginning to weaken? Or was his Department…

Groypers: An emerging threat to religious liberty

Following his appearance on The Tucker Carlson Show, neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes garnered mainstream attention as the leader of the “Groypers,” an emerging alt-right faction united behind the motto “America First.” Fuentes commands a large following on Rumble, a streaming platform…

Trump’s war on ‘woke’ targets federal grants and foreign relations

Reflections on In the Twilight of the Christian West

Why rural families need support now

Why do we keep sounding the alarm?