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‘If your vote wasn’t important, they wouldn’t be fighting to get rid of it’

Civil and legal rights groups are urging solidarity, courage and action as months of organizing are about to culminate in midterm elections Nov. 3. In webinars, church gatherings, bus tours and public rallies, voting rights advocates say Americans can stand…

USDA employees ask court to stop Rollins’ proselytizing before Christmas

Employees of the U.S. Department of Agriculture believe Secretary Brooke Rollins is abusing her position by proselytizing to 100,000 employees through email. Now, a union has sued her over the practice and wants it stopped before Christmas. Attorneys for the…

The heretic in the mirror: Josh Howerton’s Bible problem

Josh Howerton has made it big business to lampoon fellow Christians he believes are heretics. He mocks beliefs different from his own. He equates his own interpretations of the Bible as God’s word while he shows a shocking level of…

Investigators zeroing in on source of fake trans mailers and texts

Things got really interesting Tuesday, Oct. 27,, at a court hearing on the controversial transgender mailers and text messages sent across Texas last week. The quest to unmask whoever is behind the multimillion dollar effort to scare parents to vote…

Tracking the extremist shifts in the Republican Party of Texas

I read through this year’s platform of the Republican Party of Texas in horror. It is really, really bad. And then I wondered if it always had been this bad. Have the state party’s legislative priorities changed in any way…

Rest in love, Dolores Huerta

America lost more than a labor leader today. We lost a moral giant, a fearless organizer and one of the most influential Latina women of the 20th and 21st centuries. Dolores Clara Fernández Huerta died at her Bakersfield, Calif., home…

What patriarchy asks of men who oppose it

A Guardian column written by V (formerly Eve Ensler) has been circulating among friends. Her criticism of our nation’s patriarchy, which she calls “psychopatriarchy,” struck a chord. Recognizing the horror and anguish that women (as well as men) in my…

Ministry jobs

Baptist News Global provides a free listing of ministry-related jobs for Baptist churches, theological institutions and organizations across the United States. Each free posting is for 30 days and is limited to 150 words. Postings may be extended another 30…

Shurden Lecture highlights tension between civil rights and religious liberty

Multiracial democracy demands an understanding of the tension between civil rights and religious liberty and the willingness to engage in difficult conversations to protect the rights of everyone, according to Maya Wiley. The civil rights attorney gave the keynote address…

Were 102,000 football fans really praying to Jesus?

An angry face ranted to me after a Sunday morning worship at the church I served between 1994 and 2002 in Knoxville, Tenn. He was railing about a mutual friend who led a student ministry at the University of Tennessee…

Zach Lambert is a better model to follow than Jack Graham or Josh Howerton

If indeed the greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist, his next best trick was convincing the church to follow something other than Jesus. As evidence, look no further than the stranglehold white Christian…

Understanding the blue tsunami of the midterms

Lessons from this year’s Theology Beer Camp

Payday for MAGA

Ordinary people stepped up, and we made history