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Keep federal budget cuts coming, say 100 Christian and conservative leaders

Elon Musk has left Washington, D.C., but a who’s who of secular and Christian conservative leaders says the Trump administration should continue making chainsaw-style cuts to federal departments and programs Congress previously approved. “Conservatives are united behind the efforts of…

This is what your indifference has done

A few weeks ago, one of my dearest friends called me on a Saturday evening from the floor of his apartment closet, where he was huddled in fear of ICE breaking down his door. My friend lives on the 25th…

The attack on comprehensive sexual education, from federal law to the SBC

In initiatives to remove “woke” content from school curricula across the United States, comprehensive sexual education — or CSE — is under attack. CSE programs diverge from abstinence-only curricula by nature of the problems they attempt to solve. Abstinence-only curricula…

Why I am staying: A call to reform the SBC from within

Change can feel like the hardest thing in the world. It brings forth tension — fear, anxiety, worry and even anger. We often see change as an enemy to fight, something to survive rather than embrace. But some change is…

Equal Justice USA to shut down

Equal Justice USA has announced the “hard news” that it will shut down due to the Trump administration’s revocation of more than $3 million in federal grant funding. “After dozens of meetings and hours of analysis and deliberations, the leadership…

‘We don’t hate, but they do,’ conservative Christian activists claim

When conservative Christian activist groups are called hateful or placed on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s hate map, they claim innocence and reverse the charge: “The real haters are those people who say we’re hateful.” “You are not hateful or…

Here’s why authoritarians go after historians and journalists

“Those that don’t know any history think everything is an overreaction right now. Those that do know history think everything is an underreaction right now.” These were the words posted recently on Threads by medical physicist and musician Benito Thompson. To which…

The approaching storm: Generational shift in views of financial stewardship

Growing up in Florida and Alabama respectively, we both learned early what it means to prepare for storms. When Hurricane Andrew’s name comes up, or when someone mentions the tornado outbreak of 2011, memories surface — not just of the…

The evolving and continuing role of the U.S. church in Bible translation

For more than a century, the church in the United States has been actively involved in supporting nearly 7,400 language communities of the world by sending missionary Bible translators, praying and funding Bible translation. According to recent statistics from ProgressBible, 4,172…

Demand the United States end genocide in Gaza

More than 61,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli assaults in Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023. “The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs says that many people reportedly continue to be killed and injured, including people seeking food along…

No, MAGA supporters aren’t the same as Nazis

We humans love dichotomies. For example, when we meet someone, our brains tend to classify the person as masculine/feminine, taller/shorter, etc. Of course, false dichotomies abound. While a woman is either pregnant or not, a person can have both masculine…

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