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Both Mainline Christians and evangelicals lost relevance by seeking power, podcast emphasizes

White evangelicals have swapped cultural and religious relevance for political power in the hope of creating a society made in their own image, author and historian of religion Randall Balmer said. But faith groups enmeshed in authoritarian causes like Donald…

Abortion after birth is called a school shooting

Lately we have heard the message that our daughters have fewer rights than we did. That’s a jarringly frightening notion as many women like me were not empowered to make decisions about our own bodies coming out of a deeply…

Here’s one evangelical who doesn’t favor Harris or Trump

There are evangelicals for Kamala Harris and evangelicals for Donald Trump. And there are evangelicals for neither. Evangelical influencer Preston Sprinkle, who runs the Center for Faith, Sexuality and Gender, declared a pox on both political houses Sept. 16. Sprinkle…

The book is out

I got all hot and bothered several months ago when I heard that Richard Hays (and his son Christopher) had finally published something reversing his silly Moral Vision of the New Testament chapter (published in 1996) in which he argued the Bible is against same-sex sexual…

I grew up in Springfield; here’s the real story on what’s happening there

My old hometown rarely makes the national news, but Springfield, Ohio is in the spotlight thanks to Donald Trump, his running mate and former Buckeye JD Vance, and fact-challenged social media posters who have exploited an influx of Haitian immigrants…

Trump’s prophets ratchet up attacks against Harris after presidential debate

Some of Donald Trump’s evangelical supporters are ratcheting up their attacks against Kamala Harris in the aftermath of last week’s presidential debate, going so far as to compare her once again to “Jezebel” and calling the Democratic Party “demonic.” The…

Creators of Project 2025 now have a guide to acceptable ‘conservative’ universities

Samford University and Ouachita Baptist University, two Baptist-affiliated schools, are safe places for conservative students to attend, according to the Heritage Foundation, progenitor of Project 2025. The conservative think tank — that has taken a sharp turn to the further…

Anthea Butler explains the Catholic version of Christian nationalism

While much of the discussion about Christian nationalism focuses on white evangelical Christians, there’s a parallel and equally dangerous movement in Catholicism, Anthea Butler told a group of journalists and scholars Sept. 10. Butler, professor of American social thought at…

NAR prophets still declaring Trump is God’s man, scholar warns

Among the most ardent Christian nationalists today is a subgroup most Americans are not aware of but that is having an outsized influence on conservative politics and culture. That group, the New Apostolic Reformation, is a focus of research done…

On watching Jesus

All cannot be fully well for any of us until all is finally well for all of us. That is my less artful version of Martin Luther King Jr.’s more lyrical declaration, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere….

Opposing Trump secretly isn’t enough

On Jan. 26, 2022, my opinion piece, “Where are the Good Republicans?” was published by BNG. The article was prompted by the Senate’s defeat of two voting rights bills — the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting…

Sister Norma sees God in the crying eyes of migrant children — and wants you to as well

Sister Norma Pimentel wants Americans to see children held in detention centers along the U.S.-Mexico border as human beings. Although she has been persecuted by other conservative Christians and even her fellow Catholics — like Texas Gov. Greg Abbott —…

Republicans push through more unregulated funding for ICE and CBP

Trump admin defying court order on immigration access

What was there left to argue?

Beauty, ashes and the Southern Baptist Convention