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What should stand in the way of transgender inclusion?

Christians are the least likely group of people to be accepting of transgender individuals. The most recent Pew Research Religious Landscape Study asked participants how they viewed greater social acceptance of people who are transgender. Of those who broadly identified…

The GOP has a transgender fixation, and Democrats aren’t helping

While the man in charge of the most powerful military in world history threatened to blow an entire civilization into oblivion, “never to be brought back again,” many of us wondered how his Christian followers would respond. Back in 2016,…

If you think Doug Wilson is fringe, remember Al Mohler’s influence

Don’t underestimate uber-Calvinist/Christian nationalist Doug Wilson. Recent Southern Baptist Convention history demonstrates how someone who seems far outside the mainstream eventually can wield exorbitant strength. In other words, if Al Mohler can become the most powerful person in the SBC,…

5 a.m. musings in Amsterdam

It is both a blessing and a curse to be an American in Amsterdam tonight. On the one hand, it is a blessed escape. On the other hand, people look at you with worry and pity. On the one hand,…

In conversation with Benjamin Boswell

Sixteen months ago, Benjamin Boswell was forced to leave Myers Park Baptist Church in Charlotte, N.C. “Being called to Myers Park Baptist Church was a dream,” Boswell told me in a recent conversation. “This was the church I always said,…

SACS team recommends lifting sanctions on Southwestern

A visiting team representing the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges will recommend lifting sanctions against Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Seminary President David Dockery announced the recommendation in a letter to the seminary community April 8. Sanctions…

Court again limits HUD changes on care for homeless

The U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling temporarily blocking the federal government from limiting the scope of subsidized housing grants designed to help cities and states address homelessness. “As the Trump-Vance administration continues to weaponize…

Florida’s ‘anti-Sharia’ laws called threat to religious freedom for all

Two new Florida laws Gov. Ron DeSantis described as “anti-Sharia” measures are really about limiting free speech and denying due process, a group of interfaith leaders said. “Our Florida government is lying,” said Hiba Rahim, interim executive director of the…

White House and Vatican relations reportedly strained

Even though Vice President JD Vance is a convert to Catholicism, relations between the White House and the Vatican may be at the lowest point in modern history, according to a report in The New Republic. At issue now is…

In historic first, Baylor will allow gay Christian advocates on campus

Faced with a mounting backlash against a Turning Point USA rally to be held on campus, Baylor University administrators have granted a coalition of student groups permission to hold a counter-event on campus with two well-known gay Christians as speakers….

Graham and Jeffress won’t criticize Trump’s Easter Sunday screed

Two of President Donald Trump’s most reliable evangelical supporters aren’t concerned about his profanity-laced Easter Sunday post that threatened war crimes against Iran — a post that caused other elected officials to call for the president to be removed from…

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3 views on Donald Trump held by American Christians

US megachurches report strong rebound from pandemic

Baptists need to speak up again for religious liberty

What in hell became of heaven?