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Carting away your history

Strangers carted away my friend’s history yesterday, piece by piece. An auctioneer’s singsong cajoling held Dave’s life up for examination and bid. Chains, tractors, implements, house furniture, fuel tanks, rakes and hoes all appraised unemotionally for their “value” by area farmers hoping…

Supreme Court inspires Dallas man to campaign against Project 2025

When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled July 1 that former presidents have broad immunity from prosecution of criminal acts committed while in office, that was a call to action for Pat Hicks. “I knew right then and there that they’ve…

My God, not another parable!

In the powerful movie Lincoln, there is a scene in which the president and Secretary of War Edwin Stanton join other colleagues to discuss war strategies. Suddenly, Lincoln starts recalling a folksy story from his days as an Illinois lawyer,…

Gallup report highlights the impact of religion on gender inequality in Africa

Nearly three decades after the Beijing Conference on Women — where concerns about gender inequality were expressed — Africa still has a long way to go in bridging that gap, a new Gallup study has found. The report, Gender Power…

Southern Baptist megachurch pastor returns to misogyny as a text

Apparently, Josh Howerton must be getting jealous of JD Vance taking all the limelight for sacralized misogyny because he’s back in the news again with a new sermon series called “Fight For Your Family.” Earlier this year, the pastor of Dallas…

LDS members in Arizona could be key to the presidential election and control of the Senate

When the Republican mayor of Mesa, Ariz., endorsed Kamala Harris for president, the significance wasn’t just his party affiliation. Mayor John Giles also is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As anyone who pays attention…

Reminder: Join BNG live from Louisville Saturday

Baptist News Global will livestream the William M. Johnson Lecture series from Crescent Hill Baptist Church in Louisville, Ky., on Saturday, Aug. 17. The livestream will be free via Facebook Live. BNG columnist David Gushee will give the lecture on…

Authentic patriotism

Recently, my wife and I were glued to the TV, watching the return of the three U.S. citizens who had been falsely imprisoned in Russia. The hour was late, but we couldn’t pull ourselves away. It was a truly rare…

Divinity school diaries: Reflections from year 1

This past week, I watched as my social media pages were flooded with “first day of school” photos. My friends’ school-aged children stood by their front doors, or perhaps a nice tree in their yard, smiling and adorned with new…

How MLK’s questions became my questions too

When Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his “Letter from Birmingham Jail” in April 1963, I was a sophomore Bible major at a church-related college in the South, studying to become a preacher. None of my professors suggested that I read…

On secretly recorded video, leader of Project 2025 says Trump is still in on the plan

Donald Trump’s disavowal of Project 2025 is another of the Republican presidential candidate’s lies, according to the man who is the brains behind the controversial plan to reshape the federal government into a theocracy. Russell Vought told a pair of…

MAGA evangelicals cast aspersions on new Evangelicals for Harris group

Donald Trump’s evangelical supporters are not happy about a new group called Evangelicals for Harris — as in Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris. In their view, anyone who favors Harris over Trump in this year’s presidential election is forsaking the…

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