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What Pope Leo’s encyclical demands of Louisiana

On May 25, Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas,” warning about the growing influence of artificial intelligence. He informs us that AI requires an increasing use of “energy and water, significantly influencing carbon dioxide emissions, and place(s)…

What you’re not seeing: Tens of thousands of children separated from parents

Tens of thousands of children in the United States have been cut off from parents in the Trump administration’s aggressive detention and deportation campaign, according to a report by the Brookings Institution. From January 2025 to April 2026, an estimated…

The way we were

“Remember the days of old; consider the generations long past,” says Deuteronomy 32:7. Once upon a time, people who called themselves Southern Baptist had a firm conviction that they were autonomous churches cooperating with other churches of what we called…

Spiritual formation is how churches learn whom to hear

A name appears on the teaching schedule. The person is not a stranger. They have sung in worship, served on committees, brought food to grieving families, asked good questions in Bible study and stayed after to stack chairs. People like…

Talarico’s pastor pushes back on Daily Wire’s claims

James Talarico’s pastor is pushing back against reports in The Daily Wire that attempt to smear the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Texas by criticizing his church. The primary criticisms of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Austin, Texas, are…

Full gospel Christianity

The Christian faith includes both personal and public ramifications. However, most churches in America overemphasize personal faith and underemphasize public faith. For example, all churches care deeply about individual moral behavior, which is obviously important. But Scripture teaches us God…

You are the plan

During one of my TikTok scrolls, a video came across my feed of a man in all yellow running onto a baseball tarp. It was pouring rain; clearly the kind of situation few people would run toward. I watched as…

What the church got wrong about queer people

The ACLU is tracking 530 anti-LGBTQ bills in state legislatures this year. Five hundred and thirty. In Kansas, a new law immediately invalidated the driver’s licenses of transgender people and authorized anyone, anyone, to sue someone they suspect of being transgender for using the…

RLC elects officers, new board members for BJC

Members of the Religious Liberty Council have elected a full slate of RLC officers in addition to representatives to the board of directors of Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty. The council is one of many supporting groups for BJC…

Trump admin denies hunger strike at immigrant detention center

More than 300 detainees at a Newark, N.J., immigration detention are continuing a hunger strike launched Memorial Day weekend to protest insufficient and spoiled food, lack of sanitation and bond denials, Human Rights Watch reported June 3. Federal officials, meanwhile,…

Colorizing the SBC’s one-paint-can resolution on euthanasia

Cancer has reduced my father’s robust frame to skin-covered bones. His bombastic voice has deflated to a chirping whisper. But his 84-year-old blue eyes still sparkled when he abruptly made a comment that, to fully appreciate, requires decades of context….

Understanding Al Mohler’s case against women

The so-called Mohler Amendment to prohibit women from functioning as pastors in Southern Baptist churches is being hailed by his minions as “critical for us at this juncture.” According to Brian Arnold, pastor of First Baptist Church Paducah, Ky.: “In…

Y’all means all

Religious liberty ‘is not a sword to harm others,’ Laser says

The stories we tell define us

Whatever happened to heaven?