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The fight behind the 9/11 vow to ‘Never Forget’

Twenty-five years after September 11, America knows how to remember the day. We know where we stood when the planes hit, how firefighters climbed the towers, how passengers fought back aboard Flight 93, and how a grieving nation came together…

Ken Paxton’s $27 million a day silence

Begin with the number, because the number is the whole story. Texas hospitals are losing an estimated $27 million a day. On the first of September, the federal government withheld approval of roughly $10 billion owed to Texas hospitals for…

The fire(s) this time

Psalm 24:1 says: “The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.” In the conclusion to his 1962 masterful book The Fire Next Time, writer James Baldwin writes: Everything now, we must assume,…

Who killed Jason Arday?

On March 6, 2023, sociologist Jason Arday became the youngest Black person to be appointed as a Cambridge University professor. Three-and-a-half years later, on Aug. 14, 2026, he was found dead in a manner police called “unnatural” but “not suspicious.”…

Gloria Steinem was inspired by Jewish heritage

Gloria Steinem, a feminist journalist and women’s rights activist, died on Wednesday at 92 years of age. Born in Toledo, Ohio, in 1934, Steinem was raised in an interfaith family — her father Jewish and mother Protestant. And while she…

Trump admin must prove it didn’t violate injunction against Baptist church

The Trump administration must prove to a federal judge that its surveillance of a Baptist church and other congregations did not violate an injunction barring the government’s clandestine efforts. U.S. District Judge Dennis Saylor in Massachusetts scheduled a Sept. 4…

Lawsuit seeks to force Trump admin to disclose use of voter database

A nonprofit housing-justice organization filed a lawsuit to force federal agencies to disclose how they are using an immigration-related database to track benefits given poor and working Americans. Democracy Forward announced the litigation filed Aug. 26 in the U.S. District…

The role of white Christian voters in 2026 midterms

There is good reason to believe female voters may be crucial to Democrats’ effort to retake control of Congress — particularly if past is prologue. In the 2018 midterms, during Donald Trump’s first term, 58% of women voted for congressional…

Perryman’s book an instant bestseller with advice for saving democracy

It’s time to pick up a shovel and stop complaining about the impending death of democracy in America, according to Skye Perryman. The president of Democracy Forward in Washington, D.C., is well known to BNG readers because she is frequently…

Why nondenominational churches aren’t Baptist churches in disguise

The data post from Ryan Burge caught my eye — as usual. But one of the comments below the post really got my attention. “Let’s be real, non-denoms are basically Baptists,” the commenter said. This was in response to Burge’s…

Baptist minister among six jailed for protesting ICE in Missouri

An 81-year-old Baptist minister, author and former Southern Baptist state organization official was one of six people recently arrested for protesting immigration enforcement at the Greene County Sheriff’s Office in Springfield, Mo. Robert Lee Perry and his fellow protesters were…

Confronting the white consensus

If you ask American voters to name their biggest concerns, kitchen table issues always head the list. It’s not a partisan issue. Everybody wants a good job, decent health care and affordable gas and groceries. But white conservatives have a…

Supreme Court blocks Trump’s attack on voting by mail

Someday …

Franklin Graham’s daughter nominated as ambassador

Christian nationalism erodes Enlightenment ideals