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Trump seeks to gild American history at the Smithsonian

President Donald Trump’s executive order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” targets the Smithsonian Institution — which has, he contends, “come under the influence of a divisive, race-centered ideology.” This was the 105th of 107 executive orders Trump has signed…

Authoritarian rule is ‘common denominator’ in religious persecution, USCIRF says

Authoritarian rule is the “common denominator” in the worsening of religious persecution around the world, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom said in its 2025 annual report. Last year, totalitarian regimes widened the direct oppression of minority faiths in…

The importance of listening anew to holy Scripture

How willing are you to rethink your image of God? How willing are you to hear a different perspective on the divine name than you grew up hearing in church or even studied in seminary? How willing are you to…

Allow me to rattle you a bit

At 6:57 a.m. Eastern Time on Friday, March 28, I got a message from Acharn Soonthorn Soonthorntarawong with an appeal to me saying; “Please pray for us. Today, the earthquake was quite strong (7.7) for us. Our 2 children’s buildings…

Sojourners names Tyler among ‘revolutionary women’

Amanda Tyler is one of a dozen women highlighted by Sojourners as “revolutionary women shaping the church” in 2025. Tyler leads BJC, also known as Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, based in Washington, D.C. She also leads the advocacy…

Trump codifies ‘brazen attack on immigrant children’ as groups sue to stop him

More than a dozen nonprofit legal organizations have sued the federal government to reinstate a legal services program that provides attorneys and other assistance for thousands of unaccompanied immigrant children. The White House cut $200 million from the Unaccompanied Children…

Today, vaccine hesitancy is growing and celebrated

In the five years since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, Republicans and Christians have seen a complete shift in their perspective on vaccines that is changing federal policy and affecting global charity efforts — potentially sparking a measles epidemic…

It’s time to consider once again when to disobey a presidential order

“Ya know, sometimes it takes a lot more courage to live than it does to die.” It’s one of those movie lines worth watching on repeat. In the 1961 Western Two Rode Together, the snobby townspeople want to know why…

With 42% of Project 2025 enacted, Heritage Foundation turns toward Europe

The ideologues behind the blueprint for President Trump to “dismantle the administrative state” in the U.S. are working to shake up Europe, and they hope to dismantle the European Commission and the European Court of Justice. The conservative Heritage Foundation…

The SBC’s clergy sex abuse database is dead, so why the hotline?

After years of trailing out hollow words, impotent task forces and phony dog-and-pony shows of purported reform, the Southern Baptist Convention’s top CEO straight-up admitted that a database of clergy sex abusers is “not a focus for us.” This bit…

Waiting for Madge

He stood red-faced and fuming in the courtroom at the verdict that had just been handed down. His defense had called the trial “a witch hunt,” and he would publicly denounce his conviction as a miscarriage of justice. A jury…

A Catholic vice president shouldn’t bless war crimes

Officials in the Trump administration are facing intense scrutiny this week after it was revealed that National Security Adviser Michael Waltz accidentally included Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, in a group chat on the Signal encrypted messaging app. The…

What you’re not seeing: Tens of thousands of children separated from parents

The way we were

Talarico’s pastor pushes back on Daily Wire’s claims

Spiritual formation is how churches learn whom to hear