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LDS Church puts strict bans on transgender participation

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, known as the Mormon church, has taken one of the harshest formal positions against transgender identity of any faith group in America. Last month, LDS leaders rolled out new policies that bar…

New Colorado center for study of evangelicals debuts with talk by Tim Alberta

Professors who believed Colorado Springs — home to dozens of national and international evangelical parachurch ministries — should help people better understand evangelicalism finally got their wish. The Center for the Study of Evangelicalism at the University of Colorado Colorado…

The far right is building ‘aligned communities’ while looking for a Red Caesar

My father is Tennessee’s unofficial welcoming committee. A Virginia native who retired with my mother to her home state, he enjoys swapping stories with other newcomers at the lake near his home in Lenoir City. Lately, he’s been meeting a…

Me and Mrs. Womble

Her last name was several feet tall. Spelled out in chipped bold letters that had seen more hurricane winds than fresh coats of paint. Colored red as if Jesus had spoken them. WOMBLE the sign read above the hardware store….

Join Amanda Tyler and Mark Wingfield for free webinar on Christian nationalism

Join Amanda Tyler and Mark Wingfield for BNG’s next “change-making conversations” webinar about Tyler’s new book, How to End Christian Nationalism. The free webinar is scheduled for 1 p.m. Central Time Wednesday, Oct. 9. It’s free but advance registration is…

In Helene’s path, churches swing into action with relief ministries

People and institutions of faith from Florida to North Carolina are kicking into high gear to help the victims of Hurricane Helene even as they struggle assessing the human need and the scope of physical damage. Even in the most…

Gladys the Baptist paved a way for women

Perhaps the greatest moniker Gladys Lewis ever was given was when the comedian Grady Nutt called her “Gladys the Baptist.” This Oklahoma City woman is not someone most contemporary Southern Baptists and Cooperative Baptists have heard of, but she helped…

Donald Trump and the story of the magical phone app for immigrants

Donald Trump wants everyone to believe immigrants are bad. The formula is simplistic, misleading and false, but it is the sum total of his immigration policy. The simplicity, the impulsivity, and the emotionalism make Trump so tempting: Immigrants are bad….

Trump’s flip-flops on abortion have cost him nothing, observers say

Donald Trump’s high-profile flip-flops on abortion have riled pro-life supporters yet without a political cost for the former president and his campaign, Robert P. Jones said during “The Convocation Unscripted” webinar. “That would have been unthinkable in any other era,…

Project 2025 isn’t as scary as Kamala Harris, Heritage Foundation president says

Project 2025 isn’t the scary playbook Democrats have portrayed it as being and actually will be “good for America,” the president of the Heritage Foundation wrote in USAToday Sept. 29. The Heritage Foundation’s 900-page plan for the next conservative administration…

House Speaker Mike Johnson is latest GOP leader to receive warm welcome on Focus broadcast

Mike Johnson, the 56th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, discussed his family origins, his Christian faith, abortion, the “so-called” separation of church and state, attacks on American Christians and his love for his political opponent Hakeem Jeffries in…

How the party of business came to embrace anti-immigrant policies bad for business

Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant policies have so reshaped the Republican Party that the party once known as being driven by business interests nearly wholeheartedly favors a policy that would wreck the U.S. economy. That policy is mass deportation of immigrants living…

Except for white evangelicals, Americans have soured on Trump’s leadership

CBF approves $16 million budget, leaders challenge more mission

The Black Church was not meant to save America

Caner sues Truett-McConnell for wrongful firing