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First episode of new BNG podcast series now available

The first episode of BNG’s new limited podcast series, “Stuck in the Middle with You,” is now available for download and streaming. Find the podcast on Podbean, Spotify, Amazon Music, iHeart Radio, Player FM, Samsung, Podchaser and BoomPlay. The podcast…

Donald Trump’s smear of Kamala Harris’ race is what people like me experience

Recently, former President Donald Trump made one of his most idiotic comments yet by saying Vice President Kamala Harris conveniently “turned Black” for political purposes. “She was always of Indian heritage, and she was only promoting Indian heritage,” Trump said…

Who are the billionaires and celebrity pastors supporting Megan Basham?

Megan Basham may have been given the 2024 Boniface Award for “fearless and faithful” journalism by the Association of Classical Christian Schools for taking “a stand for the Christian viewpoint … without bitterness and in a godly and grace-filled way.”…

BJC announces 2024 class of BJC Fellows

Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty has name eight young adults to its 2024 class of BJC Fellows. Now in its ninth year, the BJC Fellows program educates young leaders in the history and principles of religious liberty and engages…

These Olympic boxers are not transgender but their experience illustrates transphobia

Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting went to Paris to box. Instead, the Olympic fighters unwittingly became punching bags in a fresh round of controversy over transgender athletes in sports. The fact that neither athlete is transgender — or, in fact,…

What your pastor can’t tell you but really wants you to know

Your pastor wants you to know, but just can’t tell you. Your pastor knows too much transparency can be vocationally dangerous, depending on the level of honesty allowed in your church. At the same time, if you knew these things,…

From the 1960s to today: The transformed symbol of a clenched fist

“Let him begin by treating the Patriotism … as part of his religion. Then, let him, under the influence of partisan spirit, come to regard it as the most important.” (C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters) Edward P.J. Corbett, in…

Gaston Christian Center in Dallas — the place where hope lives

I remember the first Monday in February of 2010. I was on my way to Gaston Oaks Baptist Church in Dallas to serve as interim pastor to an aging congregation with a 62,000-square-foot facility. The church at that time had…

Ken Paxton and the NRA bullies are at it again

Last time I wrote about the NRA and Dallas, it was to lament the city’s tourism office getting in bed with the gun-rights-at-all-costs advocacy group. That’s a story that still needs to spread more. Now, however, the city has done…

Impossible Monsters explores earliest battles over geology, paleontology and theology

People living along England’s Dorset coast had long scavenged fossils dislodged from local cliffs. But everything changed in 1811 when young Mary Anning and her brother Joseph found a 4-foot-long skull of an unknown ancient beast. The two youngsters soon…

The grace of joy — and the sneerers

One of the astonishing differences in the new Kamala Harris-led change in the political landscape today is the unmistakable note of joy in her campaign and in her followers and, in contra-distinction, the way her political opponents are sneering at…

Can you handle the truth?

Therefore Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say correctly that I am a king. For this I have been born, and for this I have come into the world, to testify to the truth….

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