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Colorado election clerk found guilty of fraud in 2020 election

A conservative evangelical who used her position as a county clerk in an attempt to sway the 2020 presidential election has been found guilty of seven crimes, including four felonies. Tina Peters, former elections clerk for Mesa County, Colo., is…

David French says he’ll vote for Kamala Harris to save conservativism

A high-profile conservative evangelical influencer announced Aug. 11 he’ll vote for Kamala Harris in an effort to save conservativism. New York Times columnist David French and his wife, Nancy French, already have become persona non grata in some evangelical circles…

BNG launches new podcast series on the state of the SBC

BNG debuts a new podcast series this week titled “Stuck in the Middle with You.” The podcast series features BNG Executive Director Mark Wingfield in dialogue with Benjamin Cole, also known as The Baptist Blogger. The first episode will drop…

Yandell v. Kanakuk lawsuit amended to include civil conspiracy claims

Logan Yandell’s lawsuit alleging misdeeds by Kanakuk Kamps and other relevant entities, including ACE American Insurance Co., has been amended to include civil conspiracy claims. Count 1 of the lawsuit outlines the ways leadership at the two companies allegedly committed…

Letter to the Editor: I am the unnamed source

Dear Editor: Mark, mystery solved. Please let your BNG readers know that I am the “rogue, non-professional, lone ranger source” that provided the Abuse of Faith information to Phillip Robertson that you referenced in your Aug. 5 article. It was irresponsible for…

Proposed new Texas school curriculum infused with Bible stories

A new curriculum under consideration by the Texas Education Agency threatens to turn state schools into Sunday schools and violate the religious freedom rights of children and families, education and religious liberty advocates warned during a recent webinar. The Bible-based…

Christians’ promotion of corporal punishment harms bodies, minds and the gospel

“Spanking? Well, you know, the Bible says, ‘Spare the rod, spoil the child.’” Actually, it doesn’t. The harsh teacher Ichabod Crane in Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow spoke this popular misquotation of Proverbs 13:24. Even the website of…

Promise Keepers goes all in on MAGA

Promise Keepers is back, this time with an explicitly pro-Trump agenda. At its “Daring Faith” rally in Tulsa, Okla., last weekend, the link between being a godly man and supporting Donald Trump was made explicit, according to various media reports….

A cautionary tale of celebrity pastors and family empires

Late last month, Liberty University and its former president, Jerry Falwell Jr., settled for an undisclosed amount to end a multi-year, sprawling set of multi-million dollar lawsuits brought by Falwell against the Lynchburg, Va.-based school. For the world’s “largest evangelical university,” the…

Dispirited Christians must prepare to stand in the gap, historians urge

The country I know

New book brings Baptist heroes to life for children and youth

The bathroom battles come to the U.S. Capitol