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A report from the Post-Evangelical Collective meeting in Boston

The momentum is growing. The Post-Evangelical Collective has a bright future, but also key issues to consider. What follows are some observations from my fourth national Post-Evangelical Collective conference. In order, they have been Denver (2023), Raleigh (2024), Nashville (2025)…

What does JD Vance think Christian ‘moral principles’ are?

Maybe like me you missed this zinger back in April. Amid the dispute between the White House and the Vatican, Vice President JD Vance posted on X April 18: “Pope Leo preaches the gospel, as he should, and that will…

What it means: SBC membership shrinks as US population grows

Although the Southern Baptist Convention remains the largest Protestant denomination in the United States, only about 3.6% of the 342 million Americans were members of SBC churches in 2025. Not only has membership in SBC churches been on the decline…

Newsboys lawsuit exposes underlying finances of CCM business

In the summer of 2001, I risked getting expelled by Bob Jones University for the chance to watch Michael W. Smith in concert at a Franklin Graham crusade at Wofford College in Spartanburg, S.C. This was just one year removed…

Experts say anti-Christian bias task force report is full of bias

A new Justice Department report accusing President Joe Biden of discriminating against Christians is “absurd” on multiple levels, said Melissa Rogers, who led faith-based initiatives under the former administration. The April 30 study, “Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias within the Federal Government,”…

What I would say to Sam Allberry

A few days ago, Immanuel Church Nashville released a statement that associate pastor Sam Allberry had resigned from his position following an “inappropriate relationship with an adult man,” the nature and extent of which he failed to fully disclose. Allberry…

The answer to who should control Palestine was obvious

“I hate Mr. Balfour’s pronouncement. … To my mind it’s a wholly artificial scheme divorced from all relation to facts, and I wish it the ill success that it deserves.” — Gertrude Bell One of the many entirely valid…

United Methodism two years after 25% of churches disaffiliated

The United Methodist Church’s experience with the disaffiliations of a number of its congregations has received widespread coverage in church media and in some secular media outlets. Because the polity of the UMC differs from that of many other denominations,…

Jesus Was a Migrant illuminates America’s theological crisis

Last fall, FaithWorks (formerly Fellowship Southwest) led a pilgrimage to the Texas-Mexico border. The pilgrims included the organization’s Racial Justice Advocates pilot cohort and a documentary film crew. Noted writer and historian Jemar Tisby also joined the group. The result,…

Y’all means all

Religious liberty ‘is not a sword to harm others,’ Laser says

The stories we tell define us

Whatever happened to heaven?

A report from the Post-Evangelical Collective meeting in Boston

What does JD Vance think Christian ‘moral principles’ are?

What it means: SBC membership shrinks as US population grows

Newsboys lawsuit exposes underlying finances of CCM business

Experts say anti-Christian bias task force report is full of bias

What I would say to Sam Allberry

The answer to who should control Palestine was obvious

United Methodism two years after 25% of churches disaffiliated

Jesus Was a Migrant illuminates America’s theological crisis

‘This is not a drill’

Where is the outrage?

Self-centeredness is having a moment

Christians Debate Drugs vs. Discipline in the Age of Ozempic

MLB warns players about altering uniforms after Giants pitchers add Bible verses on Pride Night

Jon Ossoff called his newly minted GOP opponent an antisemite. Why?

‘They have already suffered enough’: Central African clergy respond to US deportation

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Y’all means all

Religious liberty ‘is not a sword to harm others,’ Laser says

The stories we tell define us

Whatever happened to heaven?