A few weeks ago, I sat with a Baptist leader who described himself as a “moderate Baptist.” He meant it as a compliment, and most people in our circles would receive it that way. After all, “moderate” is one of...
More than 100 rabbis and cantors led a mass protest outside the Washington, D.C., headquarters of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Feb. 11 to demand the humane treatment of immigrants and to call for respect for human rights and dignity. The…
A megachurch pastor said he wants U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to apply her zero-tolerance stand against church protesters to situations when protesters disrupt Black churches. Jamal Bryant, senior pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Stonecrest, Ga., said…
When the Super Bowl halftime stage centered Grammy-winner Bad Bunny, Spanish was not a provocation — it was a translation of reality. What unfolded was not controversy but clarity: a portrait of the United States as it actually exists, a…
On the 101st day of the venerable monks’ Walk for Peace from Fort Worth to Washington, D.C., I was able to offer my blessing and receive theirs. They were walking up historic U.S. Route 1 not far from where we…
In a world where everyone cycles through being an expert, the week after the Super Bowl typically turns into everyone posing as professional semioticians, offering their artistic analysis of the Super Bowl halftime show and the game. Most often, this…
Attacks on the Southern Baptist Convention North American Mission Board are coming not from the left or center but also from the far right, as evidenced by an article published online Feb. 11. The Center for Baptist Leadership — a…
The Trump administration is widening its actions against immigrants by disqualifying all non-U.S. citizens and nationals, including Green Card holders, from borrowing from a key Small Business Administration loan program. Beginning March 1, eligibility for 7(a) loans will be limited…
“Behold, I stand at the door and knock.” Revelation 3:20 often is heard as a quiet, private invitation — Jesus asking politely to enter an individual heart. But to John’s first hearers, living under the pressure of empire, this image…
When I watched Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio sing on the Super Bowl stage, I didn’t just hear music. I heard a prayer disguised as rhythm, a sermon stitched together with bass and breath. In a country that often tells people like me…
In what might be considered a mild rebuke of President Donald Trump’s posting of a racist video last week, Al Mohler spins out 1,500 words before he mentions the president by name. And then he says Bill Clinton was worse….
President Donald Trump has released federal guidelines that reaffirm some Biden-era policies against school-sponsored prayers, highlight teachers’ freedom to say prayers that students can join, and dismiss the metaphor of a “wall of separation” as “legally unsound.” Trump promised new…
A bid to launch Ben Gamla Jewish Charter School as a taxpayer-funded religious charter school in Oklahoma was rejected by the state Feb. 9. In turning down the application, some members of the Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board said they…
