I woke up this Election Day with an unusual urge. I wanted to go back and reread Jamar Tisby’s The Color of Compromise: The Truth About the American Church’s Complicity in Racism. I’m not entirely sure why that particular book...
Robert Jeffress escalated his attack on James Talarico in a Sept. 30 podcast conversation with Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick. Jeffress, pastor of First Baptist Church of Dallas, said Talarico, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate from Texas, “is not a…
Follow the money. That’s one of journalism’s most fundamental maxims. So what does it mean for voters who try to follow Jesus’ teachings in their civic lives that the Republican Party has poured $122 million into advertising on behalf of…
My arm jolted in pain as the needle slid into a vein in my right arm. It momentarily interrupted my response to the other nurse on the left of my gurney in a surgical suite at a Christian hospital in…
Fiscal conservatism has died, replaced by an open season of corruption in the Trump administration. For example, on her last day as director of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company…
While most Americans have opinions on the Cornell Seven — the frat boys accused of rape and sexual assault at Cornell University — you know who hasn’t said a darned word publicly about any of this? Russell Moore, Beth Moore,…
“Trans athletes have ‘stolen’ nearly 2,300 gold medals from women and girls in the US” blared the New York Post headline. The official social media accounts for the U.S. Department of Education picked up the story, sharing a screenshot of…
Bob Agee, the second-longest-serving president of Oklahoma Baptist University, died Sept. 26 just four days shy of his 88th birthday. Agee led the Shawnee, Okla., school from 1982 to 1998 and is credited with shaping the school amid political and…
Christa Pike remained in critical condition in a Tennessee hospital Oct. 1 after surviving two execution attempts and numerous agonizing efforts to insert IVs during her failed lethal injection the day before. Tennessee Republican Gov. Bill Lee responded by announcing…
These days, in the land of the free and the home of the Ten Commandments in classrooms, the story of the Golden Calf as described in Exodus 32 and Deuteronomy 9 keeps coming to mind. Exodus says: The Lord said to Moses,…
Another day and another news report of Trump administration cruelty related to immigrants and immigration policies. Yesterday it was 2-year-olds left to represent themselves before immigration judges. Today it was another hard-working immigrant legally living in the United States snatched…
Tina Peters, a Christian election-denying felon, has traveled the country raising doubts about voting since June when she left prison seven years early thanks to President Donald Trump’s successful pressure campaign against Colorado officials. Peters thanked Trump in the Oval…
“Either we surrender to the demonic forces … or we defeat them in a landslide,” said Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during a 2024 rally in Waco. Texas. Such partisan “conspiratorial demonology” contributes to Americans’ perennial “demon problem,” says a…
