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The straight white men are not all right

As each day since the presidential inauguration has passed, I’ve found myself wondering more and more, “What’s wrong with straight white men?”* I feel like we’re living some version of “Revenge of the Straight White Men” because they are so…

More child sexual abuse bills filed in 6 states

In January, several bills were proposed across different states relating to child sexual abuse — many addressing statutes of limitations, nondisclosure agreements or settlement payouts. Legislators said they hope these changes will make it easier for child sexual abuse victims…

In new podcast episode, Mark and Ben try to talk about Trump

Baptist News Global’s podcast series “Stuck in the Middle with You” is back with two special episodes that introduce a second season of the show. Co-hosts Mark Wingfield and Benjamin Cole intend to devote most of season two to interviews…

American values and a tale of two islands

In a move that is more publicity stunt than workable policy, President Donald Trump has ordered his administration to prepare to house tens of thousands of “criminal aliens” at the Navy base at Guantánamo Bay. “We have 30,000 beds in…

Theologians push back on JD Vance’s view of ‘ordered love’

Vice President JD Vance is getting schooled by theologians over his inverted theology expressed in a Jan. 29 interview on Fox News. What Vance said: “There’s this old school — and I think it’s a very Christian concept, by the…

Politics, faith and mission: A conversation with Greg Jarrell

Greg Jarrell is a writer, ordained minister, jazz musician, and BNG contributor living in the intentional QC Family Tree community in Charlotte, N.C.’s, Enderly Park region — which one Reddit thread describes as noisy because of airplanes and gunshots. But…

Of ‘evangelicals,’ Jimmy Carter and Tony Campolo

“Don’t Call Him Evangelical — How to Remember Jimmy Carter’s Faith, And How Not To” was the title of the article in my email inbox. As a native Georgian, cradle roll Baptist and proud former partner in President Carter’s work…

Partners for Sacred Places helps churches see their spaces anew

Bob Jaeger and his team at Partners for Sacred Places want struggling American congregations to know there are numerous ways to preserve and use aging facilities beyond just seeing them become pieces of commercial real estate. But doing so requires…

While I’ll fight: ‘This is a fundamental matter of faith’

Truth be told, we as a nation, in our rage against immigrants, no longer trust in the great “I AM,” the Lord God who sponsored the Hebrews’ extrication from Pharaoh’s Egyptian servitude. We as a nation have become inhabited by…

‘The due penalty of their error’

I have often sat with my older LGBTQ friends and heard their stories of terror and loss during the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and ’90s. This disease spread throughout the LGBTQ community like wildfire, while many leaders in both…

Texas bill defines life as beginning at ‘fertilization’

The debate over when human life begins took a sharp turn in Texas, where a state legislator filed a bill that would define an “individual” as “a human being who is alive, including an unborn child at every stage of…

Trump starts with lowest presidential approval ratings since 1953

Despite his claim to have a mandate from voters, President Donald Trump has the lowest initial approval ratings of any president since 1953 — except for himself in 2017. Gallup reports Trump’s initial job approval rating for his second term…

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