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Elected officials who spread immigration lies pose a threat to public safety, rights groups say

Members of Congress who actively spread anti-immigrant conspiracy theories pose a significant threat to public safety and democracy, according to a report released by eight human, civil and immigrant rights groups. The “Bigoted Conspiracy Caucus Report” examines the power and…

Haitian-descent lawmakers have a word for Trump and Vance and their claims about pets in Springfield

Donald Trump and JD Vance are smearing Haitian immigrants in their anti-immigrant presidential campaign, according to Florida elected officials of Haitian descent. And Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is joining them, eight Floridians declared in a news release Sept. 12. Those…

ERLC trustees affirm Leatherwood’s ‘good work’ and parameters for agency’s work

Just weeks after his former board chairman tried to fire him, Brent Leatherwood kept his job as president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission yesterday. ERLC trustees, who are elected by messengers to SBC annual meetings,…

Donald Trump’s comeuppance

COMEUPPANCE (noun): a punishment or fate that someone deserves: “he got his comeuppance.” Synonyms: due, retribution, requital, recompense, just deserts, deserved fate, due reward, just punishment, castigation, wrath, chastisement. Beginning shortly after 9 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on Sept. 10,…

Several states are still fighting over ballot initiatives on abortion

Conservatives in several states have gone all out to defeat abortion-rights ballot measures before voters even get to the polls in November. In Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis has ordered state police to question residents who signed petitions to place Amendment…

Ministry jobs and more

Baptist News Global provides a free listing of ministry-related jobs for Baptist churches, theological institutions and organizations across the United States. Each free posting is for 30 days and is limited to 150 words. Postings may be extended another 30…

China halts international adoptions, surprising agencies and waiting families

China has halted its decades-long practice of allowing citizens of other countries to adopt Chinese children, surprising agencies that have worked with the communist country for decades and disappointing many families whose costly, years-long efforts suddenly have come to an…

Conservative Christian Trump supporters: I want to understand

As we move toward another presidential vote involving Donald Trump, I really am trying to understand conservative Christians’ support of him. So, in all seriousness and good faith, I’m asking you to tell me. I’m posing a number of questions…

Conservative group’s new ‘Hate Map’ targets ‘woke’ liberals

For decades, the Southern Poverty Law Center has published an annual census and “Hate Map” showing where domestic hate groups operate. Its 2023 map tracked more than 1,430 groups promoting racial hate, antisemitism and extremism. Founded in 1971, SPLC originally…

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump face-to-face tells the story

The words flying in the presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris were fierce, but the center of attention should be the visual rhetoric of Trump’s and Harris’ faces, with special attention to how images of their faces are…

As Trump praises Orbán, new polling data show who supports authoritarian rule in America

Among all Americans, Republicans and white evangelical Protestants are most susceptible to authoritarian views, according to new national polling from Public Religion Research Institute. Among that group, those most susceptible to authoritarianism are Americans who hold favorable views of Republican…

‘My teachers shot’

“My teachers shot.” That’s what a 10th grader texted her mom on Wednesday, Sept. 4, from a locked-down school room at Apalachee High School in Winder, Ga. There was “blood everywhere,” she later recounted. And another teacher “put pressure on…

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