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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…

If you want to criticize Jasmine Crockett, you better criticize Trump first

President Donald Trump has unleashed a torrent of vileness against U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D- Texas, for calling Texas Gov. Greg Abbott “Governor Hot Wheels.” Whether you like what Crockett said or not, Trump and his allies have ceded all…

BWA calls for ‘urgent help’ to replace lifesaving foreign aid

The Baptist World Alliance is calling for “urgent help” in the form of prayer, advocacy and donations in response to cuts in U.S. overseas assistance already driving up hunger and disease around the world. “It is really a call to…

Will they know we are Christians by our love?

In church Sunday at First Baptist Asheville, the pastoral resident, Will Arledge, quoted a hymn from my childhood, closing a prayer with, “Let them ‘know we are Christians by our love.’” I was a child in the 1970s when this…

Dear federal workers: We see you and we appreciate you

Beyond the politics, my heart has been heavy as I’ve witnessed the destruction caused by President Donald Trump’s broadside attacks on our own government. The media often talks about these attacks as targeting government agencies known by their acronyms: DOD,…

Huckabee says he’ll do Trump’s bidding as ambassador to Israel

If confirmed as U.S. ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee will represent the views of President Donald Trump, not his own views, the former Southern Baptist pastor told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee March 25. Protestors interrupted Huckabee’s confirmation hearing at…

‘Be careful of Scripture heavy in law but light on grace,’ Wesley warns

‘Show up and do something,’ ACLU leader urges

From the South Side to the South Lawn and back again

Democracy as a moral practice, not just a system