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Tea Party politician tells Trump opponents to ‘harness their fear’

A Tea Party activist elected as Kentucky’s first African-American lieutenant governor told students at a Baptist university that Christians fearful of the Trump administration are getting a taste of how many conservatives felt under eight years of President Obama. “I…

Longtime leader of clergy victims group leaves as SNAP faces lawsuit

A fixture in the organization working for children sexually abused by Catholic priests has resigned his post, an announcement that coincides with a lawsuit from a former employee alleging the group colluded with lawyers to refer clients and profit from…

Transitions for the week of 01.27.17

Please submit transitions — including staff changes, ordinations, anniversaries or deaths — to Barbara Francis. This page will be updated weekly. STAFF CHANGES Gina M. Brock, to Ardmore Baptist Church, Winston-Salem, N.C., as associate pastor. Gerson Garros, to Trinity Baptist Church,…

Donald Trump’s immigration policies could threaten religious liberty

Religious liberty is not just about matters of conscience or how one worships. It also involves whether one has freedom to obey one’s religion’s commands, especially when it comes to serving and caring for those in great need.

Trump is creating a new form of Christian nationalism centered on himself

Donald Trump, flanked by his menagerie of loyal faith leaders, is already preaching a nationalist gospel from the largest of pulpits. And while the exact parameters of this developing theology remain to be seen, it’s clear a revival of American…

Gender wage gap: A justice issue for the Church

Philadelphia’s mayor Jim Kenney signed a bill on Jan. 23 prohibiting employers from asking applicants about their salary history. Women’s rights activists favor the bill because it will help lower the pay gap between men and women. Employers do not…

American first or Christian first? Why supporting Trump’s vision for the nation compromises our biblical mandate

Trump’s new vision for our nation is not just un-American, but it is unchristian. And either, if not both, of those shortcomings should bother you. During his inaugural address, the president announced that for at least the next four years,…

Vintage Jesus

“They have no wine,” his mother said to the Son of God, when the cabernet ran out, at the wedding in Cana of Galilee, on the edge of the kingdom of God. But Jesus of Nazareth wasn’t buying it. “Woman,”…

Supreme Court to consider government funding for faith, and BJC weighs in

Church-state issues can be emotionally, and legally, challenging subjects. They can influence the direction a municipality, state and nation can take on matters of faith and government. Now, the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case on church-state…

Tennessee GOP leader moves ‘upstream’ to ERLC

The executive director of Tennessee Republican Party has taken a new job with the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. The Tennessean newspaper in Nashville, Tenn., reported Jan. 25 the hiring of Brent Leatherwood as the…

Faith and the Trump White House

In addition to protecting fundamental human rights, the First Amendment and related principles have helped us to become a nation with remarkable religious vitality and diversity.

The power of memories

Memories are vital for human beings. They assist us in developing a sense of identity and belonging. They protect us by helping us to remember previous hurts and dangers. But they also give us a sense of hope as they move us to consider our lives, and to remember how certain experiences and events have propelled us to a better future.

An American experiment: 250 years of trying

10 reasons America is not a ‘Christian nation’

American Dominion traces deep roots of Seven Mountain Mandate

Lindsey Graham and the history of ‘widow’s succession’