Social media was abuzz this week with reaction to Southern Baptist Convention leader Al Mohler appearing on a podcast with Christian nationalist Doug Wilson. The mere fact of them being in conversation is the most notable thing, because what they...
All the comments below were either said publicly or posted on social media by Charlie Kirk, many of them in the last weeks of his life. Kirk called Martin Luther King Jr. “not a good person.” At Turning Point…
Over the past several weeks, my mind has called back to the words of 1 Corinthians 13:6 over and again as high-profile death announcements flash across my feeds: “Love does not delight in evil but rejoices in the truth.” I…
We are living in what can only be called an Age of Rage — a moment when political violence has become as normalized in public life as school shootings, homicides among Black men and the loss of civil rights once…
Editor’s note: BNG previously reported on the influence of Doug Wilson in Moscow, Idaho, and his influence in advocating for Christian nationalism. The following opinion piece offers an alternative perspective from someone who saw the events differently. It is BNG’s…
If Charlie Kirk had been a Democratic activist and Joe Biden were still president, the right-wing conspiracy theories would have taken over the conversation already. But today, on the morning after Kirk’s dreadful assassination with a single shot to the…
Donald Trump and his allies wasted no time after Charlie Kirk’s murder Sept. 10 blaming the “radical left” as the source of political violence in America. In an address from the Oval Office, Trump said liberals’ criticism of conservatives is…
The devastating news that Charlie Kirk has been murdered at an event at Utah Valley University seems beyond belief. The evening news carried the awful news. A single bullet ended Kirk’s life. Perhaps Shakespeare’s most famous lines weigh heavily on…
The Trump administration recently issued a sweeping executive order on homelessness that dismantles support for the “housing first” model. The order pushes communities back toward punitive approaches, tying housing to mandatory treatment or abstinence, expanding involuntary institutionalization and even encouraging the criminalization…
I know activists who have protested every American military action since the Korean War. They’ve spent decades hitting the streets to try and end needless death and destruction. Their moral determination is powerful, and they’ve kept resistance alive when others…
From BNG’s coverage earlier this year, first published April 15, 2025: It seems Charlie Kirk — the Millennial founder of the Christian nationalist powerhouse Turning Point USA — is everywhere these days. He was part of a handful of…
Charlie Kirk, a 31-year-old Christian nationalist political activist and founder of Turning Point USA, was shot dead during an event he was hosting Sept. 10 at Utah Valley University near Provo. According to multiple media reports, Kirk was the only…
“I handed my son over to the devil,” Joe Alarcon told me during an interview for BNG’s upcoming podcast, “Non-Disclosure,” which features interviews from survivors and their families about the serial sexual abuse that occurred at Kamp Kanakuk. Alarcon’s son,…
