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American Jews should ‘know their place,’ William Wolfe says

Conservative American Jews should “know their place,” a Southern Baptist influencer told a gathering in Israel last week. William Wolfe, a former Trump administration official and founder of the Center for Baptist Leadership, spoke at the first National Conservatism conference held…

I am tired of begging the church to remember Jesus

I am tired. And I need the church to hear me when I say that. I am tired in a way that a good night’s sleep will not fix. Tired of waking up wondering what this administration will say or…

Public school policies cannot serve just one kind of child

There are two children in this story, and the lawsuit can only see one of them. The one it sees is easy to love. A child whose parents are raising them, feeding them, praying over them, and who find out…

Are white evangelicals really that ignorant?

Perhaps the oddest defense of white evangelicalism in recent weeks has been to acknowledge much of the harm they’ve caused while claiming it’s not due to their theology, but due to their ignorance. During this second Trump administration, patriarchal Christianity…

A tale of two Black influencers

As you walk up the stairs to the library at the HBCU where I teach, you’ll see two 9-foot-by-5-foot photographic portraits on opposing walls. On one side, W.E.B. Du Bois, on the other, Booker T. Washington, staring at each other,…

‘Time for a theological confrontation’ with Christian nationalism, Taylor says

“It’s time for a theological confrontation,” according to one of the nation’s foremost scholars of Christian nationalism. Matthew Taylor, a visiting scholar at Georgetown University’s Center on Faith and Justice, is promoting his new book published last week. Defying Tyrants…

Salazar and the Slytherins: When fiction mirrors life

The popular fictional series of J.K. Rowling offers valuable lessons for life, along with ominous warnings about human nature. What might we learn? Harry Potter: Our kids grew up with Harry Potter, the hero of Rowling’s famous literary series. Beginning…

Surely this Christian university would have banned Amos too

On May 7, Christina Littlefield, the woman who revised and updated my 2009 book, Christian America and the Kingdom of God, was banned, was banished by her Christian university, was told that for 15 months, without permission from the dean,…

Republicans falsely claim Talarico was in mental hospital

Republican apologists rushed to claim Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico lied by saying he was off the campaign trail last week due to the flu. He was instead, they insisted, receiving out-of-state mental health care for an emotional breakdown….

Tammy Sue Bakker apologizes to those hurt by her father

The daughter of Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye Bakker has broken years of silence and issued a public apology “to anyone who has been hurt by the church or my family’s ministry over the last 60 years.” Unlike her brother,…

What kind of people are we becoming?

The following comments were given by the author on Saturday, Oct. 10, at a Dallas rally against the death penalty. I speak today as a Christian, mindful of the ancient conviction expressed in Genesis that every human being is…

Dear American Christian: What did this vote mean?

Black Church and white evangelical church see midterms differently

Set a bigger, fairer table: Four ways to heal a divided nation

Christian nationalism takes a beating at the polls