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Politics, faith and mission: A conversation with Starlette Thomas

Starlette Thomas is a preacher, an associate editor and the director of The Raceless Gospel Initiative at Good Faith Media and author of Take Me to the Water: The Raceless Gospel as Baptismal Pedagogy for a Desegregated Church. We had…

Reporters reveal power players and strategies that overturned Roe

Many Americans were caught off guard when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022. But for a group of committed Christian legal activists, the end of Roe was the fruit of a successful seven-year legislative and…

How low will they go?

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. Just when I think the so-called “Christian” enablers of Trump can’t go any lower, they do. It makes me wonder if there is any bottom to the cesspool of their devotion to…

Once again, immigrant advocates damn Biden’s new policy

President Joe Biden’s claim that congressional inaction required him to issue an executive order temporarily blocking asylum for migrants at the U.S. Mexico border did little to dampen the anger and disappointment of immigrant rights advocates. Numerous organizations released statements…

UMC faces turbulence after removing LGBTQ bans

Barely a month after a historic meeting that removed half a century of official discrimination against LGBTQ Christians, The United Methodist Church faces new turbulence as homosexuality foes opt out of the worldwide denomination. General Conference delegates voted in late…

Christian media figures may face defamation trials before November election

Christian media celebrities and the companies that platform them are getting closer to facing the legal consequences of falsehoods they spread about the 2020 elections. Christian radio host Eric Metaxas, MyPillow founder Mike Lindell, Clay Clark of the ReAwaken America…

The sad consequences of the end times theology and entertainment of my youth

When I was growing up in a Baptist church, I was fascinated with end times theology. It was not until later in life that I realized how ahistorical and unscholarly most of that theology was. I read the Left Behind…

Trump the totem

Last week’s historic verdict is worth rehearsing. On May 30, Donald J. Trump became the first former president to be convicted of a crime. Twelve ordinary citizens unanimously found Trump guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in…

Witch hunt finds Trump guilty

My children gleefully learned about labeling women “witches” from the movie The Princess Bride. In an infamous scene, while attempting to heal the mostly dead Westley, Miracle Max is accosted by his wife, Valerie. He responds with, “Get back, witch!”…

The Law Amendment is one more SBC backlash against women

Next week, the Southern Baptist Convention will hold its annual meeting in Indianapolis and vote on the second reading of what has come to be known as the Law Amendment. A proposed amendment to the SBC’s Constitution, named after the…

Rosaria Butterfield is not a model for becoming un-gay

Growing up as an independent fundamentalist Baptist, I was taught that loosening any standards meant you were getting on the slippery slope toward becoming gay. If I grew my hair out over my ears, I might eventually reject God and…

New book features transcripts of Jimmy Carter’s Sunday school lessons while president

Attending church and teaching Sunday school helped Jimmy Carter through some of the most challenging moments of his presidency, author Christi Harlan said. While in the White House, Carter and his family were members and frequent attenders of The First…

Matthew Vines sets off a debate over what it means to be ‘queer’

Dear Mike Johnson, be careful what you ask for

What, to the white Christian, is America 250?

Four years later, anti-abortionists battle on other fronts