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Christians Against Christian Nationalism growing with regional groups

Nearly 20 groups affiliated with Christians Against Christian Nationalism have been formed in more than a dozen states to advocate for religious freedom and to resist the religious hatred and violence sweeping the nation. And more churches or clusters of…

CBF Advocacy off and running, Hawks says

It’s been an intense year so far for the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s Advocacy ministry, Director Jennifer Hawks said. “What a year it’s been for all of us,” she said during a breakfast at the CBF’s June General Assembly in St….

Crossing that Good Ol’ Baylor Line

Monday, I shared the news with my classmates at SMU’s Perkins School of Theology, where I am pursuing a master of divinity degree, that Baylor University had received a grant from the Baugh Foundation to “foster LGBTQ inclusion in churches,”…

Baylor rejects grant to study LGBTQ exclusion in the church

The president of Baylor University appears to have burned a final bridge with a Texas-based foundation that once was a critical funder of its Baptist identity. President Linda Livingstone has rescinded a $643,000 grant awarded to the Diana Garland School…

Thin places, sacred spaces: Why our national parks matter

Driving through the fog gave the air a thickness that seemed to envelop us, to welcome us into a place that fizzled with eternity. A group of friends and I had traveled into the Cades Cove area of the Great…

Scopes at 100: The lasting legacy of the trial over human origins

Tensions between religion and science erupted in a hot and humid courtroom in Dayton, Tenn., 100 years ago this month. Fundamentalist celebrity William Jennings Bryan squared off against agnostic attorney Clarence Darrow in the trial of high school teacher John…

Trump administration says it won’t enforce Johnson Amendment

In a year already chock-full of wins for conservative evangelicals in their culture wars, the Internal Revenue Service said July 7 it no longer will enforce the Johnson Amendment that prevents churches and other nonprofits from endorsing political candidates. Although…

Florida faith leaders plead with DeSantis to slow executions

More than 100 Florida faith leaders signed a letter pleading with Gov. Ron DeSantis to pause the fast pace of executions in the state this year. Seven men have been executed already in 2025, and two more are scheduled to…

Mandrell to leave Lifeway for Memphis pastorate

Six years after taking leadership of Lifeway Christian Resources, Ben Mandrell is leaving for a prominent Tennessee pastorate. The pastor search committee at Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis has unanimously recommended Mandrell as the church’s next senior pastor, succeeding Steve…

Residents fight Andrew Wommack’s takeover

Andrew Wommack is finding it’s harder to “take over” a Colorado city than he originally believed, following the failure of his recent efforts to recall members of the Woodland Park City Council. The health-and-wealth preacher, who teaches that believers should…

Shiny Happy People season two: Teen Mania

On July 23, Prime will release its second season of Shiny Happy People, and they’ll be dragging some old bones out of the closet, including some of my bones. Back in 2008, I attended Teen Mania’s Honor Academy. If you’ve…

‘We’ve seen an explosion in state-level anti-LGBTQ laws’

The June Supreme Court ruling upholding Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors is a signal that more anti-LGBTQ legislation is on the way, said Orion Rummler, reporter for The 19th, an independent nonprofit news organization. “We’ve seen an explosion…

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