Our church has just lived through the worst natural disaster our area of California ever has experienced, and the damage is not fully comprehended yet. On Jan. 7, a fire broke out in the Eaton Canyon area, which is a...
Gay pride month had just begun when the Colorado Republican Party sent out an anti-gay pride e-mail last Monday featuring: A guy with strange eyes who kind of looks like Jesus The slogan “God hates flags,” a tweak on one…
Dear Neighbors, I write you in the aftermath of the May 30 New York state court jury verdict that found Donald Trump guilty of committing 34 felony offenses of falsifying business records in order to conceal a conspiracy to interfere…
As the Southern Baptist Convention prepares for its annual gathering next week in Indianapolis, few in the abuse survivor community hold any expectation that it will make meaningful progress toward protecting kids and congregants against clergy sex abuse. It’s now…
Dear Southern Baptist Convention: Welcome to Indianapolis! We Baptists — at least, the “normal” kind, whose pastoral leaders possess no desires of grandeur to elevate themselves to “bishop,” or “prophet,” or “apostle” — frequently joke about who might be bishop…
Both Donald Trump and Mike Pence will speak at auxiliary events during the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Indianapolis next week. Pence already was known to be a speaker at a luncheon hosted by the SBC Ethics and Religious…
The Biden administration’s latest clamp-down on immigrant asylum is less about border security and managing immigration than it is a sign of the nation’s continuing moral decline, immigration advocate Marisa Limon Garza said. “It’s an attempt to cater to the…
Of all the loud voices of protests from across the country about the unfairness of the legal system toward the former president, I have not heard a single one of them declare he is innocent. Thus, I am led to…
The Southern Baptist Convention has been at war with itself for more than 40 years, with each new battle promising uniformity that never materializes for long. This year’s SBC annual meeting, happening next week in Indianapolis, represents another major front…
On May 28, after a yearlong investigation, the Dallas Police Child Exploitation Squad arrested Matthew Harmon, 46, on charges of sexual assault of a child for an offense that allegedly occurred in 2007. The alleged incident involved a victim Harmon…
