A new film that reframes the pivotal lead-up to D-Day as a character study amid a high-stakes strategic dispute speaks to current events, illuminating how inconvenient truths clash with modern political rhetoric. Premiering last weekend at No. 7 on the...
For a bunch of America First isolationists, Donald Trump and his merry band of busybodies sure seem to enjoy interfering in the independence and sovereignty of other countries. Not in Ukraine, mind you. The ally who needs us most is…
It’s been one month since the launch of my new podcast with BNG, Highest Power: Church + State, which is currently ranking within the top 20% of all podcasts nationally. “I’m thrilled with the podcast and what you’re doing here,” BNG…
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from revoking the Temporary Protective Status of about 350,000 Venezuelans as a lawsuit against the federal government continues. U.S. District Judge Edward Chen issued a 78-page decision March 31 declaring the revocation…
Unwilling to be outdone by its neighbor to the East, the Texas Senate has passed a bill that would require the Ten Commandments be posted in all public school classrooms. The Louisiana Legislature passed a similar law last year that…
Beth Allison Barr holds the James Vardaman Chair in History at Baylor University. She is the New York Times bestselling author of the new book Becoming the Pastor’s Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman’s Path to Ministry and…
Kentucky’s Republican Legislature supports the discredited practice of conversion therapy so strongly that both houses overwhelmingly overrode Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto of a bill to allow the practice. House Bill 495 was proposed as an “emergency” measure to reinstate the…
On March 28, in the Mandalay and Sagaing district of Burma, the people there were hit with a devastating earthquake. At magnitude 7.7, hundreds — maybe thousands — have been injured or killed. Not long after the earthquake, the Burma…
As anticipated, the U.S. Supreme Court appeared sympathetic with Catholic Charities of Wisconsin March 31 in its case against the state of Wisconsin that could have national repercussions for other faith-based nonprofits. In oral hearings for Catholic Charities Bureau v….
“Pastor Johnny” will not be collecting $100 million from the Southern Baptist Convention as he had hoped. Almost all Johnny Hunt’s defamation lawsuit against the SBC, its Executive Committee and Guidepost Solutions was dismissed in summary judgment March 31 by…
Last week’s annual gathering of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina, hosted by Pritchard Baptist Church in Charlotte, centered the theme “Serving Together,” bringing forth unity in diversity among North Carolina congregations in the current political, social and economic…
Employee by employee, project by project, the U.S. Agency for International Development is inching closer and closer to extinction in all but name. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on March 28 announced a massive reorganization of USAID to drastically reduce…
Seventy days into President Donald J. Trump’s second administration, the United States already has seen sweeping changes to its domestic and foreign policy. With Project 2025, Agenda 47 and an aggressive Republican-led Congress, Trump has pushed forward a vision that…
