The stories of Graham Platner and Roy Moore, although unfolding in different parties and different eras, trace the same institutional pattern: Modern political parties elevate outsiders when they are useful and abandon them when they become inconvenient. Platner and Moore...
A rich Samaritan came upon a poor family by the side of the road. Their home had been destroyed, and they could not afford a new one. They needed medical care and vaccinations and schooling for their children. For that…
The narrative that Ukraine started the war in 2022 or even 2014 is a fabrication of Russian propaganda. As someone who has spent more than half her actual life as a missionary in Eastern Europe, I would offer the following…
Immigration advocates are denouncing a U.S. House budget resolution for siphoning billions of dollars from social safety net programs into increases in defense spending, border security and ongoing deportation efforts. “If passed, this budget bill would leave millions of Americans,…
Malcolm Foley is a historian whose doctoral work centered on lynchings and the church’s response to them. The pastor of Mosaic Waco and special advisor to the president for Equity and Campus Engagement at Baylor University is helping to drive…
Editor’s note: Late Friday, Feb. 21, the Trump administration appears to have rescinded its stop-work order and will allow legal representation for unaccompanied minors to resume. We will update this story as more information becomes available. As part of…
Dear Editor: Let’s retire the term “Christian nationalism.” No, not a respectful, good-memory-laden retirement event. Make it a forceful dismissal with suitable ceremonies of utter disgust and disgrace. I will henceforth use the terms “religious nationalism” and “religious nationalists.” Of course, it…
I have many reasons for not getting what a somnologist or sleep doctor would describe as a full night’s rest. For one, I have children. This means my ears are attuned to any sound slightly resembling a croup-like cough. In…
Sometimes writing a news story is not sufficient to convey the importance of an event. This is one of those times. The emotion of what I witnessed in Little Rock, Ark., today cannot be conveyed in a cut-and-dried news story….
Recently someone suggested I should “lighten up” on my criticism of Donald Trump and his regime. That’s not going to happen. To be silent is to be complicit. Throughout my career I’ve been threatened, trolled, falsely accused, defamed, shamed and…
President Donald Trump issued an executive order Feb. 18 seeking to expand access to in vitro fertilization, opening a potentially controversial debate among his core constituency of evangelical Christians. The “pro-life” movement is divided on IVF, with some seeing it…
Update: Christopher Sepulvado died in prison Feb. 21 before the state could execute him. On Feb. 17, an interfaith group of religious leaders gathered at Touro Synagogue in New Orleans for a prayer vigil in protest of Louisiana’s plan…
Evangelical leaders did not jump to President Donald Trump’s defense when he declared Feb. 19 Ukraine provoked Russia’s invasion and ought to accede to Vladimir Putin. His most ardent evangelical supporters were mysteriously silent, and evangelical leaders who have called…
