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...
It has been a rough spring for Jenna Ellis, the Christian attorney who worked with James Dobson, John MacArthur, Liberty University and Colorado Christian University before joining Donald Trump’s legal team and promoting his falsehoods about the 2020 election. In…
Health officials from nations around the world are meeting in Geneva this week for the World Health Assembly, organized by the World Health Organization. Their goal is to forge an agreement designed to prepare governments and protect people from the…
As I watched the announcement of Donald Trump’s conviction on 34 felony counts May 30, I thought to myself, “I’ve seen this show before.” Indeed, I was living in Louisiana in 2001 when Gov. Edwin Edwards was convicted of racketeering…
Brian McLaren has been one of the most important voices in American Christianity for a quarter-century, and his new book, After Doom: Wisdom and Courage for a World Falling Apart, is a hard and beautiful and necessary book about how…
With so many warning signs of rising theocracy being ignored, what’s one more? Metaphorically speaking, in terms of U.S. religion and politics, we might pass off our “shortness of breath” over politicians’ chronic dishonesty as our just being out of…
Four Southern Baptist theologians and pastors intend to ask messengers to this year’s Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting to adopt the Nicene Creed as part of the denomination’s official faith statement. In the sweep of Baptist history, this is an…
In 2018, I did something most people wouldn’t dare do. While making a play about guns in America, I took a group of high school students to the NRA annual meeting in our hometown of Dallas. What we saw and…
In Primitive Baptists of the Wiregrass South, author John G. Crowley writes that for those Appalachian Baptists, “the use of fermented wine, usually made by the deacons” is standard in their celebration of the Lord’s Supper, a biblical mandate they…
The rapid growth of a Florida homeschool voucher initiative says less about its actual popularity than it does about the state’s efforts to undercut public schools, faith leader and education advocate Rachel Gunter Shapard said. “Why is it that we…
