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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…

I used to think relativism was the problem

I once loved attending apologetics seminars and cheered wildly when Christian apologists won debates with skeptics, proving that objective truth and the proclaimed good guys still triumphed. I felt affirmed to be on the right side of moral clarity, where…

How would Jesus vote?

Is Jesus liberal or conservative? Let’s turn to science to help answer that question, through a study by Jer Clifton and Nick Kerry at the University of Pennsylvania. They have continued surveying the underlying beliefs that separate liberals and conservatives….

Bobs, heartbreaks and space jellyfish

“I will ask off work if you really want me to. But I think you need to do this trip solo. And just heal.” Heeding those words from my wife, here I am, south of Daytona Beach, Fla. — in…

Health care coverage must consider cost and logic

Shortly after she shaved her head, my friend got a $1,600 bill in the mail. Just 39 years old, she was diagnosed with breast cancer recently. She had surgery to remove the cancer and both her breasts. And even though…

Supreme Court blocks Trump’s attack on voting by mail

Someday …

Franklin Graham’s daughter nominated as ambassador

Christian nationalism erodes Enlightenment ideals