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Anti-abortion activists and legislators claim Justice Department favors abortion providers and ignores violence against crisis pregnancy centers

You may not know this if you’re not tuned in to conservative media, but the FBI has an agenda to protect abortion clinics and punish conservatives generally and anti-abortion conservatives specifically. So goes the narrative believed by many anti-abortion advocates,…

Two burgers and a shake

David is in the mood to talk. Me, too. I haven’t seen him for a while. We spend at least half an hour bantering about life, God and the devil. “He’s after me,” David tells me, referring to Old Scratch….

33 House Republicans introduce bill to ban talking about sex and gender with children under age 10

The conservative evangelical agenda to define any discussion with children of sexual orientation or gender identity as sexually perverse could become federal law if a group of Republican Congressmen get their way. Rep. Mike Johnson, a Southern Baptist from Louisiana,…

Peter’s un-healing of Petronilla’s holy ‘palsy’ in the Coptic Act of Peter has a lesson for us today about disability

The Acts of Peter is a fragmented, early Christian text made up of three parts: the “Coptic Act of Peter,” the “Acts of Peter the Apostle,” and the “Martyrdom of the Holy Apostle Peter.” These writings are not included in…

Woodland Baptist Church named Church of the Year for Environmental Concern

A Baptist church at the forefront of environmental advocacy has been honored as Church of the Year for Faith-based Environmental Advocacy by Christians Caring for Creation, a national faith-based organization dedicated to addressing the critical environmental issues of the day….

How men have controlled women using the Bible

Christianity has utilized a biased reading of the sacred biblical texts to privilege men as leaders in church, home and in most vocations. From the Old Testament to the 21st century, men authored, translated and edited most of Scripture and…

Campaign calls Christians to oppose solitary confinement on moral grounds

Natasha White spent more than a quarter of a 15-year prison sentence in New York banished to solitary confinement, an experience that inflicted so much emotional and physical trauma that it has shaped the course of her life since her…

How Trump’s latest comments on Israel align with evangelical Zionism

Donald Trump is in the news again making negative statements about American Jews while flattering his evangelical fanbase. In my piece last week, I wrote about how the dispensationalist obsession with the end times led evangelicals to embrace the Christian Zionist…

Transitions for the week of 10-21-22

Please submit transitions — including staff changes, ordinations, anniversaries or deaths — to Barbara Francis. This page will be updated bi-weekly. STAFF CHANGES Nathan Adams, to First Baptist Church, Hereford, Texas, as pastor, effective Nov. 1. He comes from First Baptist…

Hooray for the hymnal!

Colossians 3:16 says, “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.” Several months…

Amid the breakup, United Methodists are still serving their communities

United Methodists’ help for others counters gloom and doom predictions of break-up. Most news coverage of The United Methodist Church these days paints a gloomy picture of a doomed denomination. While the institutional turmoil can’t be denied, United Methodists in…

Learning humility together as we read the Bible

Just as the Bible itself was a community project, so also God invites us to interpret Scripture in community. Yet anybody who has been in church for five minutes knows Christians disagree on how to apply the Bible in everyday…

‘Be careful of Scripture heavy in law but light on grace,’ Wesley warns

‘Show up and do something,’ ACLU leader urges

From the South Side to the South Lawn and back again

Democracy as a moral practice, not just a system