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Trump needs to be stopped with ballots, not bullets

The attempted assassination of Donald Trump is an attack on American democracy. Which is pathetically ironic because Trump himself remains an attack on American democracy. We must denounce the would-be assassin while reminding the nation that making Trump a victim…

Aaron Weaver to lead Baptist History and Heritage Society

Aaron Weaver has been named executive director of the Baptist History and Heritage Society, an 84-year-old group devoted to helping Baptists discover, conserve, assess and share their history. Weaver succeeds longtime Georgia pastor John Finley, who retired in June. BHHS…

Do I belong here? A first timer reflects on the CBF General Assembly

As a first timer to the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship General Assembly, I was new to name tag ribbons. After checking in, I paused with my name tag at the table strewn with colors, examining the various identities like “Chaplain,” “El Familia” and…

Maybe we are the sharks

We fear shark attacks despite being far, far more likely to die in a car wreck while driving to the beach than being bit by a shark once at the beach. Shark attacks make the national news precisely because they…

Health care is a human right

No person’s health care outcome should ever be determined by their financial income. That is the sort of clear moral truth concerning which people who are Jews, Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Buddhists and Christians, along with people of no faith but…

What if everyone forgets?

Remember Tiananmen Square? I was reminded of those halcyon and tragic days last week when I ran across an article in the New York Review of Books from May 20, 2014. It marked the 25th anniversary of that fervent outbreak…

Trimmed down GOP platform sounds a lot like a Trump campaign speech

As Democrats debate whether President Joe Biden should run for another term, Republican officials back Donald Trump and his agenda for the next four years, according to the party’s recently released platform, which is expected to be approved at the…

Yes, there’s a double standard but Biden still must leave the 2024 race

President Joe Biden’s news conference at the conclusion of the NATO summit tonight wasn’t the train wreck of his debate two weeks ago, but it did nothing to assuage his friends who believe he should not run for reelection. What…

Matt Chandler’s father confessed to sexually abusing a child then years later was given free reign of a church property

“Let me be completely, completely honest with you,” Dallas megachurch pastor Matt Chandler said in a May 2006 sermon titled “What Faith Does,” one year before The Village Church Denton Campus hired his sex abuser father as a janitor and handed him…

Presidential monarchy and judicial infallibility: America 2024

Reading the recently released Supreme Court verdict in the case of Trump v. United States, I couldn’t help thinking that before we put the Ten Commandments in “every classroom,” nationwide, we’d best post them in every room of the White…

Being holistically ‘pro-life’ is about more than abortion, Vineyard pastor says

Many evangelicals oppose abortion while supporting the death penalty because churches have failed to teach what it means to be holistically pro-life, Ohio minister Rich Nathan said during a webinar hosted by Equal Justice USA. Nathan is the founding pastor…

Remember Randall Terry of Operation Rescue? Now he’s running for president and doesn’t want to win

Some hardcore anti-abortion voters hope to boost Donald Trump and the Republican Party in November by getting Blacks and Catholics not to vote for Democrats. The Constitution Party is running a presidential ticket headed by notorious anti-abortion activist Randall Terry,…

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