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The Easter season brings memories joyous and painful of growing up in Palestine

Nothing has changed since a version of this column first appeared in 2020 in another publication under the title “A Lethal Virus Called Israeli Occupation: A Somber Easter in Occupied Palestine.” The original title drew on the spread of COVID in…

Palestinians join Jesus in crying, ‘I thirst,’ Lutheran pastor says in Good Friday sermon

A Palestinian minister’s Good Friday sermon portrayed Israel’s continuing massacre of Gazan civilians as a mirror image of the passion and subsequent crucifixion of Jesus at the hands of a brutal foreign power. “Today, we place the cross in the…

DeSantis’s war on woke suffers legal losses and backlash

“In Florida, we will not let the far-left woke agenda take over our schools and workplaces,” declared Gov. Ron DeSantis in 2022. GOP legislators embraced his culture war agenda, passing bills restricting drag shows and Critical Race theory that fueled…

Life lessons from being a single person at church

It was a particularly lonely moment in my life the first time I joined a church on my own. I had joined several churches up to that point (I am a pastor’s kid) but this was the first time without…

Twelve things the SBC should do now to address clergy sex abuse

The four of us have watched with dismay as Southern Baptist Convention officials repeatedly proclaim “progress” on sexual abuse reform while, at the same time, taking 10 steps backward. They bail with a thimble — and make a show of…

As UAW president, Shawn Fain believes Jesus would have been a unionist

In his first sit-down interview with a religious news outlet, United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain explained his faith and his reasoning for backing President Joe Biden in this year’s presidential election. Fain has deep roots in the union community…

Top issues for United Methodists’ Global Assembly taking shape

Delegates to United Methodists’ first worldwide legislative assembly in five years will consider three major issues known as “the three Rs” — regionalization, Revised Social Principles and removal of “harmful language” against homosexuality. This General Conference — technically considered the…

Criswell was Truett on the outside and Norris on the inside, new biography says

W.A. Criswell was George W. Truett on the outside and J. Frank Norris on the inside, according to O.S. Hawkins, whose new biography of the legendary pastor of First Baptist Church of Dallas releases today. Criswell grew up in the…

Israel’s war on Gaza and occupation policies are quietly erasing Christian culture and presence this holy season

While all eyes are on Gaza, Israel’s occupation policies continue to quietly erase the presence and identity of ancient Christian communities of the Holy Land. Israeli policies limit the ability of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank to access ancient…

Metaxas calls Bonhoeffer’s relatives ‘Jew-hating lunatics’

North Carolina pastor abruptly forced out of prominent pulpit

Responding to the militarization of immigration policy

Meddling with Methodism and domesticating the Baptists