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Chick-fil-A franchise sued by EEOC for religious discrimination

Chick-fil-A’s practice of closing on Sundays did not spare one of its franchisees from being sued for religious discrimination by the federal government. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced May 14 it has sued Hatch Trick, a Chick-fil-A franchise…

Is the SBC still haunted by the slavery hermeneutic?

Had the holding of slaves been a moral evil, it cannot be supposed, that the inspired Apostles, who feared not the faces of men, and were ready to lay down their lives in the cause of their God, would have…

American historian debunks Rededicate 250 revisionism

“The United States of America was not founded as a Christian nation,” historian Heather Cox Richardson insisted in her May 17 “Letters from an American” column. The professor of history at Boston College used her Sunday writing to comment on…

James Robison, Southern Baptist turned Pentecostal influencer

James Robison — a fiery Southern Baptist evangelist who became a Pentecostal TV personality — died May 17 at age 82. Robison began preaching as a teenager, growing up mainly in the Houston suburb of Pasadena. His official biography tells…

McDonald’s and the church

I finally gave in. In fact, three times now. I successfully navigated the self-serve kiosk at McDonald’s. With a touch of reluctance, I admit the experience was satisfying. I approached the kiosk, touched the screen, scanned my points code, placed…

Reflections on being made imago Dei

“Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule. … So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them, male and female he created…

Diversity of faith missing from Rededicate 250

Any observance of the nation’s 250th anniversary should celebrate the diversity of faith in U.S. history, but that’s not what Americans will see during the Trump administration’s prayer and worship service May 17, religious and civil rights leaders say. Rededicate…

Proposed Pell grant change misses the meaning of education

The Trump administration is proposing a new rule that would tie the availability of Pell grants and student loans to the earning potential of degree programs. This proposal is beyond terrible for a multitude of reasons. First, it ignores the actual…

Some wounds are spiritual before they are emotional

There are nights in disaster shelters when the exhaustion becomes almost physical in the air. You can feel it hanging over rows of cots and folding chairs long after midnight. Volunteers move more slowly. Children finally fall asleep. Coffee grows…

Tyler testifies for religious freedom for all people

Anti-Muslim legislation and policies violate the U.S. Constitution’s requirement that government remain neutral in matters of religion, said Amanda Tyler, executive director of Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty. Tyler offered the perspective during a May 13 House Judiciary subcommittee…

The Saint Ives Riddle and the work of moral imagination

There are moments when a simple riddle reveals more about our moral life than a shelf of political theory. The old puzzle about the traveler going to Saint Ives is one of those small, durable stories that has survived precisely…

Is pluralism possible under an evangelical Christian God?

What does pluralism mean for people who believe there’s only one way to God, who believe God reigns, but who live in a nation that values liberty and justice for all? This is the question many Christians are wrestling through….

3 views on Donald Trump held by American Christians

US megachurches report strong rebound from pandemic

Baptists need to speak up again for religious liberty

What in hell became of heaven?