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Trump’s evangelical base believes God spared him from an assassin’s bullet for a purpose

Many evangelical Christians who already have declared Donald Trump to be God’s anointed choice for president see his near-assassination last Saturday as further sign of God’s favor and protection. And other Christians who oppose Trump see his near-miss as a…

The hypocrisy of House Speaker Mike Johnson

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson said Sunday that “when the message goes out constantly that the election of Donald Trump would be a threat to democracy and that the republic would end, it heats up the environment.” Johnson called for…

‘You can’t forget history you never knew’

On July 2, I was on a Zoom gathering for a discussion of the new book by Brian Kaylor and Beau Underwood: Baptizing America, How Mainline Protestants Helped Build Christian Nationalism. During the discussion, one of the authors observed that…

What does it mean that JD Vance’s wife is the daughter of immigrants and Hindu?

The most anti-immigrant and pro-evangelical presidential candidate in modern history has chosen as his running mate a man whose wife is the daughter of immigrants and is not Christian. Donald Trump’s selection of JD Vance as his vice presidential candidate…

Some evangelicals still don’t believe climate change is real, while others believe it is God’s judgment for sin

June was the 13th month in a row to break global heat records, and the summer of 2024 already has seen more frequent and long-lived heat waves, hotter and bigger wildfires, longer lasting and more violent storms, and more heat-related…

Fellowship Southwest receives Lilly grant to engage churches in border ministries

Fellowship Southwest has received a $1.25 million grant from the Lilly Endowment to expand its existing immigration ministries across the next five years. Each year for the next five years, Fellowship Southwest will recruit churches along the U.S.-Mexico border to…

How Zionism poisoned Western Christianity

As a Semitic Palestinian Christian, I am deeply troubled by the pernicious influence of Zionist ideology on Western Christian theology. This ideology has ensnared many Western Christians, who cynically leverage the suffering of the Jewish people, especially during the Holocaust,…

New book documents how Trump administration prioritized deporting Muslims

Fear swept through the African immigrant community in Ohio when Donald Trump took office in 2017 and vowed to implement mass deportations and other hardline anti-immigration measures, activist Demba Ndiath said. Even longtime U.S. residents without criminal offenses grew increasingly…

World leaders are too slow in preparing for another pandemic, report warns

In the last four years since COVID 19 struck and devastated the world, a rash of measures have been proposed by health authorities in different countries aimed at curtailing the virus and averting new ones. Now, some experts say the…

America’s founding rejected a king and a state religion, Raushenbush and Bowen say

Juneteenth and Independence Day offer models of the kind of religious freedom America should embrace, according to Interfaith Alliance President Paul Raushenbush. “On July Fourth in 1776, the Founders declared independence from a king who was given absolute power because…

Must our quests for liberty be mutually exclusive?

There’s a strange tension in the minds of many people between the desires for independence and community. It comes up often in conversations about churches and denominations. A church may want to be independent yet participate in the community of…

The GOAT in religion

Americans love greatness. We love great wealth, great success, great possessions, great entertainers, great CEOs, great athletes. I’m old enough to remember when Muhammad Ali declared, “I am the greatest.” And in the world of boxing, he likely was. We…

Theologizing with Larkin Poe, 10 years after Reskinned

Ministry leader with tall tales wins GOP bid for Colorado governor

What Willy Rice once knew

What I learned July 5 at church