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Taxpayer-funded By Dawn’s Early Light woos Trump’s evangelical base

Democratic presidents have targeted Christians and attacked religious freedom for decades, but President Donald Trump is making everything right, claims By Dawn’s Early Light, a taxpayer-funded movie starring Trump administration officials that praises the president’s Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian...

Is congregational vision written then experienced or experienced then written?

By George Bullard Is a vision best when written or best when experienced? Yes, and it depends. But, let’s go deeper. Think about your dreams during your sleep last night. Yes, you dreamed, but you may or may not remember…

Church remembers the violence inherent in Advent

By Brian Kaylor On the second Sunday of Advent, the lawn of Highland Baptist Church in Louisville, Ky., was covered with wooden crosses like one sees in a military cemetery. Each cross — about 75 of them — will represent…

State Supreme Court reverses convictions of peeping preacher

By Bob Allen The Mississippi Supreme Court has reversed 10 of the 13 counts of a traveling Southern Baptist evangelist convicted three years ago of video voyeurism. Sam Nuckolls, a former youth camp pastor for LifeWay Christian Resources, was sentenced…

More young women than you think consider becoming nuns

Evangelical leaders are frantically looking for ways to defeat Donald Trump

The real history of Hanukkah is more complicated than you thought

Catholics shouldn’t try to convert Jews, says new Vatican document

Conservative culture warrior Robert George hospitalized with serious heart problem

‘I beg to differ’

By Jayne Hugo Davis “When I light a candle at midnight, I say to the darkness, ‘I beg to differ.’” This quote is attributed to an unnamed philosopher in the first century. I don’t know what caused this person to…

Santa, Elmo and Jesus

By R. Kevin Johnson Over Thanksgiving dinner this year, our friends asked my wife and me about striking a balance between secular and sacred influences during the holidays. They wanted to know about the “magical” part of this season and…

Which cross is being embraced in Advent?

By Seth Vopat Advent is a season of tension for me. Not because I struggle to proclaim “Immanuel” — God with us — in a season marred by tragedy and violence. The tension is not the result of Christmas consumerism…

Eradicating DEI hasn’t made anything better

How Christian nationalism shows up in patriotic worship services

Dear Trump-supporting Christians, are you really OK with this?

‘Every Student. Every State’ campaign promotes school tax credit