“Take him out! Blow him up! Take him out! Blow him up!” the children chant during a vacation Bible school program at Mt. Olivet Baptist Church in Lexington, Ky. With eerie music looming over the scene, the viral TikTok video...
On May 19, First Baptist Church of Richmond, Va., made Baptist history by voting to leave the Southern Baptist Convention in support of women in ministry. Their decision wasn’t driven by hatred for the SBC or a desire to move…
It’s exhausting to the soul. That’s what I’m feeling as I consider all the possible stories I could write regarding what white conservative men have planned for this year’s Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Indianapolis. Capturing most headlines is…
June Williams Honeycutt died Saturday, June 8, in Louisville, Ky. She was the widow of Roy Honeycutt, former president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville. He was the last “moderate” president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s mother seminary before…
Donald Trump spoke to a group of Southern Baptists for about a minute and a half June 10 and warned them they cannot vote for Democrats because “they’re against religion” and “they’re against your religion.” Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee…
Americans continue to grow more liberal in their social views but remain more conservative on economic issues, according to Gallup. Since 2015 — coincidentally the year the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage after a sea change of public opinion…
Do not be fooled by the new Calvinists among the Southern Baptists who are stirring fears of liberals in the denomination. Lies are being told about liberal influences in one of the most conservative denominations in the nation. And the…
I’m not gay. On the Kinsey Scale, I’m a 100% heterosexual male. I don’t understand what either straight women or gay men see in men. I think we’re gross. I mean, I can say such-and-such male is “an attractive person,”…
“Pro-life” now means anti-gay for a group that calls itself the nation’s “oldest grassroots Catholic pro-life education organization.” In a June 6 news release, the American Life League took on the Young Men’s Christian Association and said the 180-year-old organization…
New York Times columnist David French laid out the story of how his family got canceled by their Presbyterian church in an explosive June 9 opinion piece published in the Sunday Times. The conservative columnist cited chapter and verse for…
Donald Trump’s conviction on 34 felony counts should not disqualify him from being elected president of the United States, Religious Right leader Ralph Reed said in a June 5 interview with the Washington Post. Reed, who leads the Faith and…
Gay pride month had just begun when the Colorado Republican Party sent out an anti-gay pride e-mail last Monday featuring: A guy with strange eyes who kind of looks like Jesus The slogan “God hates flags,” a tweak on one…
Dear Neighbors, I write you in the aftermath of the May 30 New York state court jury verdict that found Donald Trump guilty of committing 34 felony offenses of falsifying business records in order to conceal a conspiracy to interfere…
