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Two parallels and an outlier: Graham Platner, Roy Moore and Donald Trump

The stories of Graham Platner and Roy Moore, although unfolding in different parties and different eras, trace the same institutional pattern: Modern political parties elevate outsiders when they are useful and abandon them when they become inconvenient. Platner and Moore...

Todd Still named Truett Seminary dean

By Ken Camp New Testament scholar Todd Still has been named dean of Baylor University’s Truett Theological Seminary, effective June 1. Still, 49, will become the fifth dean of the Waco, Texas, seminary, where he has served on the faculty…

Supreme Court to hear religious freedom case

In Brazil, ‘Surfer Angel’ is considered for sainthood

Muslim Americans widely seen as victims of discrimination

Truly knowing people simultaneously clears and blurs your vision

This subject, about which I have thought for many years, was stimulated by a recent Pew Research Center study referenced in an article entitled Americans Are More Likely to Like Muslims if They Know One. The research report from Pew…

Army of Assyrian Christians aims to fight Islamic State

An open letter to Tennessee

EDITOR’S NOTE: In an effort to report on the prophetic witness of Christians in America today, RLC has run several posts in the past year on the Moral Movement, which began in North Carolina and has now spread to 14…

Did the President misrepresent Christianity?

President Obama spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast on February 5, as you know, and that speech unleashed considerable negative reaction-mostly from the same people that have criticized him for about everything he has said or done since 2009. Most…

Religious freedom doesn’t require risking public health

By General Counsel K. Hollyn Hollman The recent measles outbreak and ensuing conversation about immunizations is not primarily a story about religion or religious exemptions. We are learning, again, that measles is a serious, and sometimes fatal, but preventable disease….

A pro-family lobbyist searches for his missing wife

Uncoerced faith remains a burning question

By Bill Leonard On Sunday, Feb. 15, 2015, the terrorists who call themselves an Islamic State released a lurid video showing the decapitation of 21 Egyptian laborers working in Libya. Taken hostage in January, largely because they were Coptic Christians,…

The wicked are punished — or not

What Ryan Burge sees in America’s megachurches

We are a nation of immigrants

As worldwide deaths mount, Musk insists DOGE cuts didn’t kill anyone