I woke up this Election Day with an unusual urge. I wanted to go back and reread Jamar Tisby’s The Color of Compromise: The Truth About the American Church’s Complicity in Racism. I’m not entirely sure why that particular book...
An Oklahoma education board rejected the application of a Jewish K-12 school despite a recent federal decision enabling the project to continue. The Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board voted 4-3 against Ben Gamla Jewish Charter School. The tally was one…
People who identify as Christians but give money to Mainline churches and organizations aren’t actually Christians because they’re giving money to organizations that support LGBTQ people and abortion. So says the conservative commentator Megan Basham, who calls herself a “Christian…
Why is a Baptist-affiliated news service spending so much time writing about the Methodists these days? The answer is simple: Because the legal battle between Highland Park United Methodist Church and The United Methodist Church has implications for all churches…
Unlike his father, Andy Stanley will not hold onto his pulpit into old age. The younger Stanley, founding pastor of North Point Church in Atlanta, announced Oct. 18 he will step down as senior pastor of North Point Ministries at…
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to stop using taxpayer dollars to pay for political advertisements extolling the president’s policies ahead of the midterm elections. U.S. District Judge Jennifer Roston in New York issued a temporary restraining order…
Leaders of Highland Park United Methodist Church in Dallas have called for a rapid vote on whether to leave The United Methodist Church. That vote will take place on Sunday, Oct. 25 — just two weeks after a town hall…
Will any Republican in Congress challenge the Trump administration’s illegal and unconstitutional assault on a sitting member of the U.S. House of Representatives? For the past 20 months, the silence of Republicans in Congress — and evangelical pastors in pulpits…
What happens when the president of the United States appears more willing to offer economic incentives to an invading nation than to guarantee the security of the nation being invaded? For nearly five years, the world has watched Russia wage…
High school freshman Lucy Boyd gave up most of the summer to design, plan and organize the construction of a sensory room for special needs children at Wilshire Baptist Church in Dallas. The congregation’s new Preschool Sensory Room offers special…
A few weeks ago, I watched the Netflix documentary Death of the Pastor’s Wife. I was sad, but not surprised, that a woman’s testimony was considered so threatening it warranted death. What is it that makes women’s stories so dangerous…
I was raised in evangelical Christianity. My grandfather was an evangelist in the 1950s. My mom was the church pianist. I grew up in Sunday school and youth group, the kind designed to keep kids like me out of trouble….
The Dollywood Foundation has asked the world to “Give Like Dolly.” A month after Dolly Parton’s death, it was a fitting tribute to a woman whose generosity became almost as much a part of her public identity as her music….
