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Oklahoma plans to execute a man who didn’t commit a murder

Death penalty opponents are bracing for the anticipated execution of an Oklahoma man who even the state acknowledges did not kill anyone. Tremane Wood has been on Oklahoma’s Death Row since 2004 for participating in a robbery-turned-homicide in which the…

Putting the wicked to rest: Creating teal steeples beyond Sexual Violence Awareness Month

I turned on the TV / And flipped it over to the news / And what I saw I almost couldn’t comprehend. I saw a preacher man in cuffs / He’d taken money from the church / He’d stuffed his…

Transitions for the week of 4-26-24

Please submit transitions — including staff changes, ordinations, anniversaries or deaths — to Barbara Francis. This page will be updated bi-weekly. STAFF CHANGES Valerie Burton, to Weatherly Heights Baptist Church, Huntsville, Ala., as senior pastor. She comes from Baptist Church of…

Most independent voters don’t believe presidential election will change their lives

In an election year where everyone already seems to have a firm opinion, independent voters stand out as different, according to a new national survey from Navigator. When asked how much thought they’ve given to who they’ll vote for in…

There’s now half a dozen pastors vying to be SBC president

This summer’s Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting already was going to be one for the history books, and now there’s another reason for that distinction: A record six candidates have now announced their intention to run for the presidency of…

Like the Quakers, can we imagine peace between Israel and Hamas?

In what may seem an exercise in futility, the Quakers have produced a peace proposal for Hamas and Israel. I have great respect for the Quakers, starting with the influence they had on President Abraham Lincoln. I have been greatly…

Wissam al-Saliby named president of 21Wilberforce Global Freedom Center

Wissam al-Saliby has been appointed president of the 21Wilberforce Global Freedom Center, following the center’s founder and now president emeritus, Randel Everett. Al-Saliby is an expert in international religious freedom and human rights who brings years of experience in advocating…

Kincaid will lead Baylor’s Institute for Faith and Learning

Elisabeth R. Kincaid has been named director of the Institute for Faith and Learning at Baylor University, succeeding Darin Davis, who led the program from 2007 to 2023. The Institute for Faith and Learning was founded in 1997 to promote the…

Disinformation campaign uses ‘phony science’ to discredit trans people, researcher says

Right-wing political and religious groups are waging a disinformation campaign based on phony science to dehumanize transgender people and deny them full political and religious status, said Royal G. Cravens III, senior research analyst at the Southern Poverty Law Center….

The 1948 Deir Yassin massacre as a prequel to today’s war in Gaza

“The compulsory transfer of Arabs from the valleys of the proposed Jewish state could give us something which we never had, even when we stood on our own feet during the days of the First and Second Temple. … We…

Why did Haynes resign as head of Rainbow PUSH? ‘He did not have the full authority to actually do the job’

Freddie Haynes has been mum on why he abruptly resigned as successor to Jesse Jackson leading the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, but a Chicago columnist is spilling the tea no one wants to talk about. “The issue is not that Haynes…

Conference organizer calls Mark Driscoll to repent over lies about men’s event

Mark Driscoll’s actions at and since the Stronger Men’s Conference are “demonic” and he must be called to repentance, according to the pastor who organized the hyper-masculine event for Christian men. “What Mark had done … was so egregious, attempting…

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