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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…

Seven religion-influenced cases pending before US Supreme Court

The Supreme Court soon will hear arguments about tax breaks for charities, school policies on LGBTQ material, Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood, and Oklahoma’s proposed Catholic charter school. The high court also agreed to hear a case on gay conversion…

In Kentucky, a Confederate statue sparks protest and spawns podcast

A Kentucky history professor has launched a new podcast exploring how issues of race, religion and community are symbolized by a Confederate memorial in a rural town near Lexington. “Rebel on Main” also presents a historical and sociological inquiry into…

If Jesus loves me, why is Donald Trump ruining everything?

I heard one of those televangelists preaching at me online the other day, declaring with equal sincerity that Jesus loves me and that Donald Trump is the savior we’ve all been waiting for. I’m having a hard time reconciling these…

Josh Hawley pressured evangelical lawyer to exit Trump administration

Hilary K. Perkins, an evangelical Christian who recently was named the Food and Drug Administration’s top lawyer, already has resigned following a pressure campaign by Sen. Josh Hawley, a fellow believer, and husband to lawyer Erin Hawley, who has battled…

What will your church do, if …

On Dec. 1, 1955, a Black woman named Rosa Parks, sitting in the “no man’s land” of a Montgomery, Ala., bus, declined to relinquish her seat to a white rider as required by law. The refusal led to her arrest…

Focus on the Family bashes DEI, praises rocky economy, promotes Bible in schools

Conservative Christian “pro-family” groups that support President Donald Trump are promoting his attacks on DEI, praising his management of the economy, sending mixed messages about whether women should be leaders, and backing efforts to require Bible reading in public schools….

Now Trump’s allies want to pardon Derek Chauvin

Conservative activists, led by Elon Musk and podcaster Ben Shapiro, are pushing to pardon former Minneapolis police officer and convicted murderer Derek Chauvin. Revising negative narratives — regardless of the truth — has become a runaway train in President Donald…

What I learned at a town hall meeting where our elected officials didn’t show up

I went to a town hall tonight in Little Rock. When I walked in about 10 minutes until time to start, it was a standing room only crowd in a church sanctuary that seats 750 people. I leaned up against…

The wicked are punished — or not

What Ryan Burge sees in America’s megachurches

We are a nation of immigrants

As worldwide deaths mount, Musk insists DOGE cuts didn’t kill anyone