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Death, politics and the private faith of public power

The decision by Utah prosecutors to seek the death penalty against Tyler Robinson, accused of assassinating conservative activist Charlie Kirk, has transformed a tragic act into something more than a criminal case. It has become a litmus test for politics,…

Conservative coalition plans patriotic programs for America’s 250th birthday

The U.S. Department of Education has formed an America 250 Civics Education Coalition with 41 conservative groups in preparation for the celebration of the nation’s 250th anniversary next July 4. The coalition “is dedicated to renewing patriotism, strengthening civic knowledge…

Rod Kennedy writes a book to explain why he writes about Trump so much

Rodney Kennedy has been accused by MAGA followers of suffering from a demented fixation on every word and deed of Donald Trump. The Baptist pastor and author in Louisiana acknowledged those claims will no doubt increase with the recent publication…

SBC Executive Committee won’t pursue countersuit against Hunt

After some debate, the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee declined to accept a suggestion to go on the legal offensive against Johnny Hunt. Hunt, a former SBC president, filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the SBC for defamation after he was…

Iorg compares SBC’s diverse giving to gender dysphoria

Selective giving to the Southern Baptist Convention Cooperative Program budget is like believing children can choose their gender, Jeff Iorg told members of the SBC Executive Committee Sept. 22. Iorg, president of the Executive Committee, addressed the gathering on the…

‘Interfaith Imam’ released from ICE custody

Imam Ayman Soliman has been released from an Ohio jail after the federal government dropped its deportation case against him and fully reinstated the asylum status he was granted in 2018. The former Cincinnati Children’s Hospital chaplain and Egyptian immigrant…

14 more Texas districts sued over Ten Commandments

An additional 14 Texas public school systems are being sued to stop them from installing classroom Ten Commandments displays mandated by the state. A coalition of civil rights groups filed a federal complaint Sept. 22 against the Arlington, Azle, Comal,…

‘We are on the side of God,’ Stephen Miller says

Enemies of the MAGA movement “have nothing,” Stephen Miller said at Charlie Kirk’s memorial service Sunday morning. But conservatives, on the other hand, “are on the side of God.” Miller, who has been called the mastermind behind the most controversial…

Why Trump proudly hates his enemies

Sunday’s memorial for the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk certainly was an interesting spectacle. The five-hour event in Glendale, Ariz., attended by thousands of supporters spread across two arenas, was hardly a somber funeral so much as a combined tent…

Reflections on a five-hour memorial service

I must report a grievous theft. God’s sacred gifts to me, my words, have been stolen. They have been filched and deceptively redefined, their time-honored meanings scrapped and their hollowed sounds marshalled for cheap tricks. This switcharoo is not my…

Mississippi’s ‘strange fruit’ harvested again

Apparently strange fruit is still being harvested. That’s the chilling metaphor of Black bodies hanging from trees in the American South. Mississippi long has been the epicenter of America’s most brutal racial domestic terrorisms, lynchings. Between 1877 and 1950, according…

Abram and Sarai illustrate the danger of obedience in advance

Abram and Sarai’s story in Genesis 12 is more than an ancient moral fable. It is a prophetic mirror for our political moment. When famine strikes, Abram and Sarai flee to Egypt as refugees. On the way, Abram begins to…

Trump’s war on ‘woke’ targets federal grants and foreign relations

Reflections on In the Twilight of the Christian West

Why rural families need support now

Why do we keep sounding the alarm?