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Trump will let in more refugees — as long as they’re Afrikaners

The Trump administration has raised the nation’s annual refugee admissions cap from 7,500 to 17,500 for the coming year but again dictated that the vast majority must be white South Africans. President Donald Trump slashed the 125,000 person resettlement goal…

Christa Pike and the moral case for ending the death penalty

When I worked in death-penalty communications, words such as “execution,” “death warrant,” “clemency” and “lethal injection” began to sound like the ordinary vocabulary of public policy. There is nothing ordinary about what those words mean. Last week’s failed execution of…

American Baptists offering aid to distressed Haitians

American Baptist Churches USA has administered tens of thousands of dollars in emergency assistance to Haitian communities besieged by federal immigration actions since losing Temporary Protected Status. The denomination’s American Baptist Home Mission Societies announced it has provided $135,000 through…

Trump TV ads anger Dems, frustrate GOP and may be illegal

President Donald Trump is using $20 million in Homeland Security funds to air a dozen TV ads praising him and his achievements, including “PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST,” a month before midterm elections. One ad, “Final Battle,” was used in…

Jeffress calls Talarico ‘not a Christian’ and ‘evil’

Robert Jeffress escalated his attack on James Talarico in a Sept. 30 podcast conversation with Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick. Jeffress, pastor of First Baptist Church of Dallas, said Talarico, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate from Texas, “is not a…

What could your church do with $122 million?

Follow the money. That’s one of journalism’s most fundamental maxims. So what does it mean for voters who try to follow Jesus’ teachings in their civic lives that the Republican Party has poured $122 million into advertising on behalf of…

‘Bye bitch’ and other Bible Belt reactions to execution news

My arm jolted in pain as the needle slid into a vein in my right arm. It momentarily interrupted my response to the other nurse on the left of my gurney in a surgical suite at a Christian hospital in…

Whatever happened to fiscal conservatism?

Fiscal conservatism has died, replaced by an open season of corruption in the Trump administration. For example, on her last day as director of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company…

Guess who hasn’t said anything about the Cornell Seven

While most Americans have opinions on the Cornell Seven — the frat boys accused of rape and sexual assault at Cornell University — you know who hasn’t said a darned word publicly about any of this? Russell Moore, Beth Moore,…

Let’s look more closely at the claim 2,300 trans athletes have ‘stolen’ gold medals

“Trans athletes have ‘stolen’ nearly 2,300 gold medals from women and girls in the US” blared the New York Post headline. The official social media accounts for the U.S. Department of Education picked up the story, sharing a screenshot of…

Bob Agee, former OBU president, dies days before 88th birthday

Bob Agee, the second-longest-serving president of Oklahoma Baptist University, died Sept. 26 just four days shy of his 88th birthday. Agee led the Shawnee, Okla., school from 1982 to 1998 and is credited with shaping the school amid political and…

‘Bring back the electric chair,’ Tennessee GOP candidate urges after botched execution

Christa Pike remained in critical condition in a Tennessee hospital Oct. 1 after surviving two execution attempts and numerous agonizing efforts to insert IVs during her failed lethal injection the day before. Tennessee Republican Gov. Bill Lee responded by announcing…

Go ahead and livestream that firing squad execution!

Pete Hegseth’s gospel of violence

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GOP faithful warn of communism, promote Trump’s faith policies