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AI is being used to abuse children, and we can do something about it

Last May, congress passed the Take It Down Act, requiring websites to remove “nonconsensual intimate visual depictions” of identifiable individuals. This includes both real and AI-generated content. But this law only addresses content publication, not the various ways in which...

Unfocused: The name of these congregations is Legion

When I say, “Hello, my name is George, and I am a Facebook addict,” the proper response from a 12-step group is, “Hello, George.” I love posting on Facebook and sharing with folks what is going on, and particularly sharing…

One-woman fundraising machine amazes friends and Baylor community

Nov. 29 was Giving Tuesday, when nonprofits, ministries and other groups who thrive on goodwill press the public and their benefactors for much-needed donations. Next time around they may want to consider getting Allison Dickson’s help to boost contributions. The…

U.S. embassy to remain in Tel Aviv, for now

President Barack Obama took action Dec. 1 to keep the U.S. embassy in Israel in Tel Aviv for at least another six months. The Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995, a pledge to relocate the embassy to Jerusalem, allows the president…

Chapel speaker terms Calvinism ‘Trojan Horse’

A Southern Baptist seminary president said Nov. 29 that Baptists who adopt Calvinistic theology and practice ought to consider joining another denomination. “I know there are a fair number of you who think you are a Calvinist, but understand there…

No longer in-valid

Invalid: “One who is incapacitated by illness or disability” In-valid: “Null; Not legally or factually valid” “Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool, called in Hebrew Beth-zatha, which has five porticoes. In these lay many invalids…

The Sunday after

A post-election lesson from Jimmy Carter.

In today’s world, the truth is losing

Richard Stengel, the State Department’s undersecretary for public diplomacy, bluntly states the problem that has been worrying him and should worry us all: “In a global information war, how does the truth win?”

Dear Ivanka Trump: Save the planet from your dad

The stakes of climate change are huge — as your dad himself once argued. So what gives?

Trump inspiring more churches to enter sanctuary movement

In the mid-1980s, members and leaders of Old Cambridge Baptist Church risked fines and imprisonment to provide sanctuary to an El Salvadoran wanted by her government and U.S. immigration authorities. Now, Pastor Cody Sanders says, a group of church members…

Tennessee CBF responds to wildfires

A Cooperative Baptist Fellowship partner church in Sevier County, Tenn., lost a youth building and van to wildfires raging through the Great Smoky Mountains that killed at least three people, scorched hundreds of homes and businesses and sent more than…

Controversial religion clause stripped from defense policy bill

A massive defense policy bill is headed for a vote in Congress minus a controversial amendment opposed by religious and civil-liberties groups who claimed it would authorize taxpayer-funded discrimination in federal contracts. Lawmakers from the House and Senate Armed Services…

The Evangelicalism of old white men is dead

As a result of the presidential election, much of the good that went by the name “evangelicalism” has been clouded over; now a new movement is needed to replace it.

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’