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What Willy Rice once knew

Newly elected Southern Baptist Convention President Willy Rice has characterized the SBC’s clergy sex abuse crisis as a “hoax” and a “snipe hunt.” Talk like that helped get Rice elected. Apparently, it was the message many Southern Baptists wanted to…

No political victory should be worth sacrificing moral integrity

Graham Platner’s campaign to dethrone Susan Collins as one of Maine’s two senators has come to an abrupt end following allegations of sexual assault. In an 11-minute-long video on X, the progressive firebrand launched a combative defense calling the allegations…

The night I saw God’s kingdom on earth as it is in heaven

Nine years ago, I had nine strokes within the course of a few hours. Nine blood clots to both hemispheres of my brain. My recovery was tough, and in those early months and years of trying to find my new…

Theologizing with Larkin Poe, 10 years after Reskinned

Lately as an amateur guitarist/professional theologian, I’ve been getting into the music of Larkin Poe, a Grammy Award-winning blues rock band led by guitar-playing sisters Rebecca and Megan Lovell from rural Northwest Georgia who named their band after their great-great-great-great…

Ministry leader with tall tales wins GOP bid for Colorado governor

Both a Democratic Socialist and a Republican ministry leader who worked with James Dobson will be on Colorado’s ballot this November. But primary voters rejected candidates affiliated with Ryan Dobson and health-and-wealth preacher Andrew Wommack in last week’s state primaries….

Esther’s Army is fresh look at Christian women of the Right

Back then it was Beverly LaHaye and Phylis Schlafly. Now it’s Alex Clark and Allie Beth Stuckey. To be a female conservative Christian leader is to navigate the contradictions in making careers of saying women shouldn’t have careers but “should…

All the Marys and women with the power of words

At the 2022 Wild Goose Festival, historian and author Diana Butler Bass said in a sermon titled “All the Marys”: “When the women of the world take on words for themselves, when we seize our sacred texts and search them…

What Ryan Burge sees in America’s megachurches

Americans are fascinated with megachurches, and that is leading some of the nation’s largest churches to keep getting larger, according to religion researcher Ryan Burge. Burge, a professor of practice at the Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University, has…

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

The world’s richest man continues to claim his destruction of USAID one year ago last week hasn’t caused a single death worldwide, but data from many reliable sources tell another story entirely. On Feb. 3, 2025, Elon Musk posted on…

Two parallels and an outlier: Graham Platner, Roy Moore and Donald Trump

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…

We are a nation of immigrants

God bless America, land that I love. Stand beside her, and guide her, through the night with a light from above. From the mountains, to the prairies, to the oceans white with foam, God bless America. My home sweet home….

The wicked are punished — or not

For about a decade, I have had a book brewing that takes on the book of Job. It is now about to come out Sept. 1. It will be called Job in Exile: A Guide for Spiritual Refugees. There are…

Trump appeals to Supreme Court to control voter database

What made America great after 9/11

In conversation with Robert P. Jones

Responding to those who are different