Here’s why the new Texas school curriculum is so very, very bad

Last week I spent a day in Austin, Texas, to testify for the second time against the new (and newly named) “Bluebonnet Learning K-5 Reading Language Arts” curriculum. Despite significant opposition, the Bible-infused curriculum was approved, which should be unsurprising...

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Wasted resources? I beg to differ

The interview with Robert Naylor was over. I was wrapping up cords and cables and stowing them in the tote bag, basking in the glow of the vision laid out by Naylor, then president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. By…

Candace Owens out at Daily Wire over antisemitism

Candace Owens, the sharp-tongued Black conservative Christian commentator, has left the Daily Wire, the website announced Friday, following growing outcry over her continuing promotion of antisemitic claims: The week of March 18, she liked a post promoting a classic claim…

Embracing what’s sacred

As spring rain drizzles outside, I’m thinking about Easter worship and the increasing numbers of Christians (and pastors) who are leaving church. The statistics have become a modern fact of life and aren’t as shocking as they once were. For…

Open Doors report documents dangers women and men face for Christian faith in 50 countries

Christian women face appalling levels of religiously motivated sexual assault and forced marriages in countries known to be hostile to the faith, Open Doors International reports in a new study on gender-specific religious persecution. Physical and psychological violence are next…

Here comes a progressive response to demagogic and authoritarian politics

As the 2024 election looms over us like a dark cloud, many Americans are fearful of the outcome. Will Donald Trump win a second term? Even asking the question has driven me to my Bible and my bourbon (Pappy Van…

Terrorism, money and the threat to world peace

In the last couple of weeks, terrorists in Nigeria invaded and kidnapped about 300 people, including nursing mothers and children as young as 2 and 5 from schools, a highway and internally displaced peoples camp in Kaduna, Katsina, and other…

Wrong paths can still lead to right places and failed dreams can still create successful people

“What do you want to be when you grow up?” It’s a question most of us were asked in our childhood. When I was young, a lot of kids dreamed of being astronauts, doctors and firefighters. Then we grew up….

Your idea of goodness may not be kindness

Many years ago, two deacons from a church I served as pastor asked if they could take me to lunch. Was this an act of kindness? An act of thanks for my hard work? There’s always a reason for lunch….

America’s biggest wolf in sheep’s clothing

Evangelist Franklin Graham just concluded his 11th revival tour, now misleadingly named the “God Loves You Tour.” The tour was a perfect showcase of talking from both sides of one’s mouth. Graham has built his reputation by masquerading behind the…