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Hasta la vista! Title 42, but hola! more restrictions

Immigration advocates marked the one-year anniversary of President Biden’s asylum ban by lamenting the policy’s devastating effects on migrants and by warning that even more drastic anti-immigrant actions could be on the way. “Our members have seen the immense human…

We have a teachable moment, and we’re blowing it

We haven’t seen protests on college campuses like this since the 1960s. As a professor, I’m thrilled to see a deep level of engagement by students on an important issue. I’m also horrified at the responses of many institutions to…

Christians in Palestine ask why U.S. believers ignore them

Since Hamas launched horrific attacks on Israel and Israel responded with its deadly and devastating war in Gaza, we’ve heard much about this conflict. But we’ve been deaf to the pained cries of Christian brothers and sisters caught up —…

Rise of MAGA movement derives from longtime infatuation with fascism, theologian says

The seemingly rapid rise of the MAGA movement and Christian nationalism may be shocking to some, but they in fact derive from the nation’s long-time infatuation with fascism, according to theologian Willie D. Francois III. “America has always been a…

Ezell writes state convention leaders to offer ‘helpful information’ on McRaney case

After a long period of public silence about the defamation case brought against him and the Southern Baptist Convention North American Mission Board, Kevin Ezell sent a message to state Baptist convention executives May 10 offering “helpful information in case…

A pastor’s wife’s questionable suicide sparks suspicion and highlights the fruit of abusive theologies

Mica Miller’s body was found at 3:03 p.m. April 27 in Robeson County, N.C., with a gunshot wound to the head, an hour and a half drive away from her home in Myrtle Beach, S.C., two days after serving her…

Stiver named president of Fletcher Seminary

Dan Stiver has been named president of Fletcher Seminary, the new Texas-based school created after the closure of Logsdon Seminary in Abilene. He succeeds the school’s founding dean, Donald Williford, who has retired and been named president emeritus. Stiver has…

What are they wearing in District One? The Met Gala, Gaza and another real-life connection to the Hunger Games

On May 6, celebrities waltzed into the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the year’s biggest night of fashion, extravagance and outrageous displays of wealth: The Met Gala. One ticket to the Met Gala costs around $75,000, which the BBC points…

From the Protestant Reformation to Columbia University, some thoughts on protests

Typically, historians view Oct. 31, 1517, as the beginning of the period known as the Protestant Reformation. Ordained as a Roman Catholic priest a decade earlier, Martin Luther came to a deep conviction of the need for reform in the…

Here’s the real reason Hegseth should not be confirmed

Three new bills related to child sex crimes filed in Missouri

Evangelical leaders urge Trump to preserve refugee resettlement program

Of meth sermons and puke dust