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BJC’s Brent Walker urges vote on Obama’s Supreme Court nominee

A Baptist church-state expert welcomed President Obama’s March 16 announcement of a nominee for a Supreme Court seat vacated by the death last month of Associate Justice Antonin Scalia. In a Rose Garden ceremony Wednesday morning, the president announced his…

The moral vision of Bernie Sanders

Like a growing number of Americans, Bernie Sanders does not define himself within clear religious categories, even as he stays engaged with questions of morality and a just society.

‘Evangelical elite’ just doesn’t get it, claims pastor and Trump supporter

A Southern Baptist pastor who has been supportive of GOP presidential front runner Donald Trump says leaders of an “evangelical elite” vocally opposed to Trump are out of touch with people in the pew. “There is an absolute disconnect between…

The threat of ‘all or nothing’ demands

Legislative and administrative exemptions designed to protect religious liberty without harming other important interests should be encouraged.

The LGBT politics of Christian colleges

At many evangelical universities, you can be gay — as long as you don’t “act” it.

To such as these

It was the last place I wanted to be that night. It had been a long day, and now I was crammed into a hot and crowded school auditorium for my son’s school music program. I gave him a thumbs…

Baptist group welcomes latest easing of U.S. pressure on Cuba

An Alliance of Baptists leader is applauding new policies easing restrictions on travel and trade with Cuba unveiled by the Obama administration March 15.

We need to restore the Supreme Court to full strength

The prospect of a 4-4 decision on very important Supreme Court cases is unacceptable for any longer than is absolutely necessary.

‘The Seer:’ Wendell Berry and the vanishing beauty of small farms

A documentary on Wendell Berry which premiered this week at SXSW conveys the joys of living in a rural American community and the hellish changes to that manner of life wrought by massive industrialization.

Trump’s pastor friends have one thing in common: They’re all rich

While some prominent members of the Religious Right have repeatedly disavowed Trump’s candidacy, there is one group of conservative Christian clergy that has consistently called Trump a friend, and vice-versa: preachers of the so-called “prosperity gospel.

Confused by issues in the 2016 presidential campaign?

This year’s presidential campaign has taken some of the strangest twists in U.S. history. Brent Walker of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, suggests nine books that can help clear things up.

Former SBC leader claims 2016 election most important since the Civil War

The former head of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commissions says the possibility of a lesser-of-two-evils choice in this year’s presidential election cannot deter conservative evangelicals from going to the polls. “The 2016 election year is well…

Theologizing with Larkin Poe, 10 years after Reskinned

Ministry leader with tall tales wins GOP bid for Colorado governor

What Willy Rice once knew

What I learned July 5 at church