“They stole $77,000. And that was all of my savings.” Her voice was so soft I (Doug) had to lean in to hear her. “I’ve talked with the local police, the FBI and the Federal Trade Commission. The money is...
Just prior to the 2008 presidential election, 52% of American adults attended worship. As the 2024 election approached, only 31% of the white American population was regularly in church, a decline of 21 percentage points. In 2008, 68% of 18-…
Jesus’ death on the Cross was not a limited act only for his family, the 12, the other followers and some of the rest of the world that was salvageable. Imagine Jesus saying from the Cross, “Father, forgive my disciples,…
News that President Donald Trump is preparing to sign an executive order dissolving the U.S. Department of Education has riveted attention on Trump’s adherence to Project 2025, a conservative evangelical blueprint for dismantling the federal government. The Wall Street Journal…
It’s no secret politics divides America. The growing hostility between Republicans who support Donald Trump and the Democrats who oppose him is fracturing friendships, families and churches. Each side wonders at the rationale of the other: “How can they possibly…
Editor’s note: In rare circumstances, BNG will publish an opinion piece without a byline to protect the identity of the author. In this case, all identifying information has been removed to protect the seminary as well. The point of the…
The quest for conformity in opposing women in ministry is so strong in the Southern Baptist Convention that a state convention executive director has resigned after his own church was expelled from the SBC. Randy Covington resigned as executive director…
“There’s nothing I can do,” two people lamented yesterday. Somewhere a Trump minion got their wings, or horns, more likely. Overwhelming us, discouraging us, and depressing us — that’s one goal of the flurry of executive orders, pronouncements and outrages…
The push to place Bibles in every public school classroom in Oklahoma has a new funding mechanism. Lee Greenwood’s Bibles for USA has launched a website where individuals may donate the $59.99 required to purchase a so-called “Trump Bible” that…
Not since Y2K have we had a year whose mere mention conjures up so much anxious uncertainty. The Heritage Foundation ensured that with their infamous Project 2025 that launched a full-blown blitzkrieg on the federal government. There’s another way of…
Elie Wiesel, who as a teenage prisoner in two Nazi concentration camps watched his family taken away to be killed, wrote out of that experience one of the most important books of the last century, Night. How he began has…
Religious communities in the U.S. cannot sit idly by as the Trump administration persecutes immigrant families and cuts assistance programs to pay for it, said Bishop Dwayne Royster, executive director of Faith in Action. “We are truly living in unprecedented…
Last Wednesday, Kanakuk survivors and other activists spoke at the Missouri House of Representatives in front of a Judiciary Committee hearing on one of multiple bills currently being considered related to child sexual abuse. The bill under discussion is part…
