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American Baptist agency issues pastoral letter on mass deportations

American Baptist Home Mission Societies issued a pastoral response to federal deportations July 3, saying the denomination will not back down from ministry. “The Church as Refuge: A Pastoral Response to Mass Deportations” is a brief letter to the congregations…

The fireworks we need this Fourth of July

In 1989, I stood on a pee-wee football field, my skin the color of a fresh beet and close to blistering. Done so by the beams of a luminous ball of gas floating in space, some 93 million miles away….

Will Trump pardon Sean Combs like he pardoned Jack Johnson?

On May 24, 2018, then-President Donald J. Trump issued a long-overdue posthumous pardon to Jack Johnson, the first Black world heavyweight boxing champion, convicted in 1913 under the Mann Act — a federal law originally intended to crack down on…

Supreme Court says ACA can continue to provide HIV-prevention meds

The Affordable Care Act will continue to provide free preventative services and medications to millions of people who rely on that provision of the law, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled June 27. The 6-3 decision in Secretary of Health and…

Fight against federal school vouchers isn’t dead yet

Organized opposition to federal school vouchers in “the big beautiful bill” was so effective it nearly derailed the program altogether, an education advocate said after the U.S. Senate’s 51-50 passage of the legislation July 1. “Thousands of Americans took action…

Why churches should care about creation justice

“Everyone has an ecological story,” said Derrick Weston, director of theological education and formation at Creation Justice Ministries during a CBF General Assembly learning lab last week. With a small group of assembly attendees, Weston discussed the important distinction between…

How to reinforce impoverishment

Give a man a fish, you’ll feed him for a day. Teach a man how to fish, and he and his family will eat for generations. Judge a man for the circumstances surrounding his need and accuse him of being…

Politicized pastor seeks library limits to ‘protect children’

Bill Bolin, the Michigan pastor who politicized his pulpit and was profiled by author Tim Alberta, now leads a local library board and is intent on “changing the sexual tone and nature of some library policies and practices.” Bolin was…

Two lawsuits target Texas Ten Commandments law

Two Texas Baptists — including a BNG staff member — are among 16 multifaith and nonreligious Texas families who filed suit in federal court today to oppose the state’s new Ten Commandments law. This is the second lawsuit filed against the…

Prestonwood celebrates Trump and Supreme Court in morning worship

“This is a time for us to celebrate America,” Prestonwood Baptist Church Pastor Jack Graham declared in his all-white suit in a scene reminiscent of a Jesse Gemstone sermon in HBO Max’s The Righteous Gemstones. “Just because you love America…

God didn’t give me this message for Christian musicians and preachers

I’m so over musicians saying, “God gave me this song.” No, I’m not saying God didn’t give you the song. You just don’t need to say it. When you say, “God gave me this song,” it’s like you’re saying, “You…

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