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Jim Jordan says ICE agents are ‘doing the Lord’s work’

ICE agents who are violently rounding up children from playgrounds and parents from city streets are “doing the Lord’s work,” according to U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, Republican from Ohio. His comments came three weeks after White House staffer Stephen Miller,…

Trump plans to slash refugee admissions and only let in whites

President Donald Trump is expected to cut refugee admissions into the United States to 7,500 next year — a new low for the U.S. and half the previous record-setting low cap set during his first presidency. The administration also is…

JD Vance would deny immigrants emergency care

JD Vance converted to Catholicism in 2019 and went on to be critiqued by the last two popes on his stance of immigration. Vance, it seems, does not let the disapproval of the pope keep him from still claiming his…

What it should take for Trump to get the Nobel Peace Prize

The man who occupies a solemn office, who bears an honorable title, but whom a court of law has declared a convict on 34 counts of fraud and whom another court has declared to be a sexual offender, may have…

Join the flotilla of God’s resistance

In the spirit of reading other people’s mail, specifically 2 Timothy 2:1-14, I present a letter to the faithful when it feels like the world is on fire. To the dearest faithful, blessed doubtful, foolishly hopeful, the ragamuffins and the…

Chicago pastor sues Trump after ICE assaults him while praying

A Presbyterian minister attacked by ICE agents during the peaceful protest of a Chicago-area migrant processing center has joined a lawsuit to stop the Trump administration’s violence against demonstrators and media. David Black, senior pastor of First Presbyterian Church of…

Meet Peter Thiel, technocrat and apocalyptic preacher

Have you ever said, “I got to get me some of that apocalyptic?” I have been haunted and harmed my entire life by the apocalyptic. First, it was the wild-eyed, sweating, screaming evangelists putting on twice-annual revivals at Antioch Baptist…

Memoir reveals heart, theology of French pastor who saved Jews

He’s been called a hero for standing up to the Nazis as they unleashed Hitler’s Final Solution to kill Europe’s Jews. But André Trocmé saw himself as a devoted follower of Jesus and Protestant pastor in a small French village…

Church-state separation and separating fact from fantasy

My granddaughter Zoey loves and reads fantasy. She loves tales of dragons, wizards and elves. Me, not so much. However, I am visiting my granddaughters and the adults who spawned them. Every grandparent understands that order. My visit coincides with…

When history doesn’t rhyme: A look at the conservative-liberal spectrum

Modern Christianity is mindbogglingly diverse: 45,000 denominations, by one recent estimate. Christian history teaches us this is not new. From the beginning, Christians understood Jesus differently. In the United States of 2025, though, this diversity is on the wane —…

A letter to the broken beloved: Let’s talk about godliness

If you are a fire-baptized, Holy Ghost-filled disciple whose deepest allegiance is to Jesus Christ, then we need to talk as adopted brothers and sisters of every tribe, tongue, nation, race, language and ethnicity, who strive to worship God in…

Franklin Graham quits accountability group his father founded

Franklin Graham has quit a financial accountability group his father helped found. The son of the famed evangelist has pulled both the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan’s Purse from membership in the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability. That group…

‘Be careful of Scripture heavy in law but light on grace,’ Wesley warns

‘Show up and do something,’ ACLU leader urges

From the South Side to the South Lawn and back again

Democracy as a moral practice, not just a system