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AI is being used to abuse children, and we can do something about it

Last May, congress passed the Take It Down Act, requiring websites to remove “nonconsensual intimate visual depictions” of identifiable individuals. This includes both real and AI-generated content. But this law only addresses content publication, not the various ways in which...

Survivor of KKK Baptist Church bombing: ‘I had to forgive’

Good news for exiles

My morning routine is pretty standard. After my alarm goes off, I hop in the shower, fix some breakfast, and head to work. Sometimes I find a few minutes to read my Bible and pray, but even then, I have…

Despite ‘challenging year,’ chaplain service continues spiritual leadership role in Virginia prisons

RICHMOND — The picture window in the new office of the Chaplain Service Prison Ministry of Virginia overlooks the courtyard at the Virginia Baptist Resource Center, giving Randy Myers and his staff a view of a fountain and tranquil greenery….

HERITAGE: Class Reunion

They were together once again — teacher and pupil. It had been a long time. Bettie Woodson Weaver had been the fourth-grade teacher and Lauranett L. Lee was one of her very special students. In 1969 Chesterfield County’s public schools…

OPINION: Bearing witness to the dignity of all God’s children

Martha prepared the tomb for him, a borrowed one offered because there was no place for his lifeless body to rest. He was reviled; he was despised; political authorities spent great effort to end his life. When they succeeded many…

TRENDING: Conversion, churchmanship, discipleship

I wrote earlier this spring about the death of Dallas Willard and the impact his life and ministry had on getting the “discipleship” conversation to the forefront in North American evangelicalism. One of the ways he did this was to…

WINN RECOMMENDS: Books that matter

Some of the very best stories are the true ones. Here are two memoirs and one collection of heroic figures that would be worthy of your time. Booked, Karen Swallow Prior (T.S. Poetry Press) Prior is an English professor, so…

REVIEW: In ‘Star Trek Into Darkness,’ church can find model of apostolic boldness

J.J. Abrams returns with his second take on Gene Roddenberry’s “Star Trek.” It is clear that Abrams is a student of the series. Much of this film is taken from the lore of the series and the previous films. The…

OPINION: Questions and character, part 2

What do you do when it seems like the bottom has fallen out? How do we move forward in the wake of tragedy both nationally and personally? The only way is to root ourselves deeply in the truth. As I…

VITAL SIGNS: The oxbow lake church

A friend was recently talking about an organization that is struggling to adapt to some very necessary changes. While not a church, the observation she made about their inability to adjust to a changing world rings true for many of…

Study suggests WW II experiences led veterans to church

(RNS) — A new study has found that American veterans who had a negative experience serving during World War II attend church more frequently today than those who were less troubled by their service. The study also found that when…

An American experiment: 250 years of trying

10 reasons America is not a ‘Christian nation’

American Dominion traces deep roots of Seven Mountain Mandate

Lindsey Graham and the history of ‘widow’s succession’