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BGCT executive wants another study of relationship to Baylor

In the second Friday afternoon news drop in two weeks, the Baptist General Convention of Texas announced April 17 it will launch another study of the relationship between the BGCT and Baylor University. This follows a recent dialogue that concluded…

Judge says Trump may continue to target Somalis

A federal court ruled the Trump administration may continue to prioritize Somali asylum seekers for deportation while a lawsuit against the practice continues. Plaintiffs Hines Immigration Law and The Advocates for Human Rights expressed deep disappointment in the April 10…

At SBC seminary, Hawley says USA founded on covenant with God

U.S. government and society must be remade to conform with a 17th-century pact made by Protestant settlers to establish a Christian colony in America, Republican U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley said. “This country was founded on a covenant, and I don’t…

Dan Patrick is wrong again

Yesterday morning, coffee in hand, I was met with a sobering claim. Our Texas lieutenant governor, Dan Patrick, broke the news: “Separation of church and state is a lie.” Despite my “limitations” — a public-school education, a private college degree…

Graham comes to Trump’s defense and Kinzinger calls him out

Once again, Franklin Graham has come to the defense of President Donald Trump, but this time former GOP Congressman Adam Kinzinger isn’t having it. After the evangelist and Trump cheerleader posted a defense of Trump sharing an AI-generated image of…

Marjorie Taylor Greene leads the way in repentance?

On Easter Sunday, former U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene wrote: Everyone in (Trump’s) administration that claims to be a Christian needs to fall on their knees and beg forgiveness from God and stop worshipping the president and intervene in Trump’s…

Mohler and Pressley on women having a seat at pastoral table

Conservatives were “inches from losing the Southern Baptist Convention” before the “conservative resurgence,” Al Mohler told SBC President Clint Pressley in a new podcast. Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., has been a standard bearer for…

Pastors for Texas Children seeks second leader

Pastors for Texas Children, a statewide advocacy group that has become a national movement, will give its founding executive director to the national movement and seek a new state leader. Pastors for Texas Children was founded in 2013 by Charles…

A tale of genocide and preschoolers half a world apart

On April 12, the first Sunday after Easter, I led a Sunday school class of little ones through an interactive Stations of the Cross. This was an activity I had done during Holy Week, and a Sunday school teacher loved…

Insanity in the name of God

The pronouncements of President Donald Trump these days are so outrageous that it would be a form of parody if it were not for the fact that he is commander in chief of the most powerful army in the world…

‘We need the moral courage to stand where Pope Leo stood this morning’

Posting an image of himself as Jesus, making apocalyptic threats against Iran and criticizing Pope Leo XIV gave faith leaders and political strategists plenty to condemn about President Donald Trump during a recent symposium hosted by Yale Divinity School. Speakers…

In conversation with John Fugelsang

John Fugelsang is author of the New York Times bestselling book The Separation of Church and Hate, a comedian, actor and broadcaster who is the child of two parents who were in holy orders — and then, as he writes,…

Paxton dodges ethics questions while claiming Talarico isn’t Christian

Restored Voices Collective gets GRACE report on former board member

‘CatsOnACouch’ influencer sues over First Amendment rights

Court finds Trump and Blanche conspired to create sham IRS lawsuit