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Christa Pike back on Death Row in Tennessee

Tennessee execution survivor Christa Pike has been released from a Nashville hospital and is back in the maximum-security prison where she was imprisoned for more than three decades before her botched lethal injection last month, her attorneys said. “She is…

When justice becomes a spectacle

When did killing someone become a measure of justice? And when did watching someone die become entertainment? Let’s begin with Christa Pike. On Sept. 30, the state of Tennessee attempted to execute Pike by lethal injection. She was administered two…

Catholic and Methodist leaders condemn livestreamed firing squad

Roman Catholic and United Methodist leaders have joined the condemnation of Pete Hegseth’s planned livestreamed execution of Nidal Malik Hasan. Any Catholics assigned to the firing squad are “obliged” to request to be excused from this action, which is “contrary…

Here’s what a Baptist sees in the HPUMC legal dispute

Here’s how this looks to a Baptist outsider with more than average knowledge of The United Methodist Church: The denomination’s second-largest church intentionally changed its governing documents to allow the possibility of withdrawing from the UMC. And once the denomination…

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American Jews should ‘know their place,’ William Wolfe says

Conservative American Jews should “know their place,” a Southern Baptist influencer told a gathering in Israel last week. William Wolfe, a former Trump administration official and founder of the Center for Baptist Leadership, spoke at the first National Conservatism conference held…

I am tired of begging the church to remember Jesus

I am tired. And I need the church to hear me when I say that. I am tired in a way that a good night’s sleep will not fix. Tired of waking up wondering what this administration will say or…

Public school policies cannot serve just one kind of child

There are two children in this story, and the lawsuit can only see one of them. The one it sees is easy to love. A child whose parents are raising them, feeding them, praying over them, and who find out…

Are white evangelicals really that ignorant?

Perhaps the oddest defense of white evangelicalism in recent weeks has been to acknowledge much of the harm they’ve caused while claiming it’s not due to their theology, but due to their ignorance. During this second Trump administration, patriarchal Christianity…

A tale of two Black influencers

As you walk up the stairs to the library at the HBCU where I teach, you’ll see two 9-foot-by-5-foot photographic portraits on opposing walls. On one side, W.E.B. Du Bois, on the other, Booker T. Washington, staring at each other,…

‘Time for a theological confrontation’ with Christian nationalism, Taylor says

“It’s time for a theological confrontation,” according to one of the nation’s foremost scholars of Christian nationalism. Matthew Taylor, a visiting scholar at Georgetown University’s Center on Faith and Justice, is promoting his new book published last week. Defying Tyrants…

Salazar and the Slytherins: When fiction mirrors life

The popular fictional series of J.K. Rowling offers valuable lessons for life, along with ominous warnings about human nature. What might we learn? Harry Potter: Our kids grew up with Harry Potter, the hero of Rowling’s famous literary series. Beginning…

In conversation with Rick Pidcock about Weapons of Worship

Fake trans mailers and texts aim to scare Texans to vote for Paxton

Listen to the minor prophets as you vote

Current and past senior ministers urge HPUMC to vote for disaffiliation