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...
Another Black man was found hanging Friday. His name was Demetrius Fleming. He was 38 years old. Fleming was found Aug. 21 in Roanoke Rapids, N.C., connected to a ligature. His death remains under investigation. Police Chief Lawrence Wiggins has…
Log Cabin Republicans are removing the T from their advocacy for gay and lesbian and bisexual citizens. Ross Hemminger, president of Log Cabin Republicans, announced the change in an Aug. 20 column in Town Hall, a far-right online journal. The…
There are moments when changing a name is simply administrative. This is not one of them. The U.S. Navy is reportedly considering removing the name of Doris “Dorie” Miller, one of America’s most important World War II heroes, from the…
The Texas Fifth District Court of Appeals ruled Aug. 19 to dismiss all but two of sexual abuse survivor Cindy Clemishire’s defamation claims against Gateway Church and its elders. The lawsuit, which was filed in June 2025, names as defendants…
I am sometimes asked why post-evangelicals have created and are retaining an identity and name that carries forward the religion we have left behind. Doesn’t that just reinscribe the trauma? Doesn’t it confuse the effort to define ourselves now? Doesn’t…
Millionaire and superstar Paris Hilton has paired with congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to fight sexual deepfakes generated by AI with a piece of legislation called the DEFIANCE Act. The act, which stands for the Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits…
Many white Americans are questioning — even resenting — the continued focus by Black America on the disappearance and death of Nolan Wells. To them, he’s just a teenager who made some bad choices. To us, he’s another Black child…
One of the greatest Christian dissenters I’ve ever known was James M. Dunn, late chief executive of Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty and founding faculty member of Wake Forest University School of Divinity. Like his dissenting Baptist forebears, James…
Leaders and members of a Minnesota Baptist church were stunned and angered to learn recently that an undercover immigration agent entered their facilities to spy on the congregation in May. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer reportedly entered University Baptist…
The survival of the United States hinges on establishing a thoroughly Protestant Christian nation and encouraging young evangelical adults to marry and have a lot of babies, according to Al Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Mohler pitched his…
Johnny Hunt isn’t done with the Southern Baptist Convention. The former convention president, megachurch pastor and denominational executive is appealing recent court decisions that found his defamation claims lacking. Hunt filed suit in March 2023, alleging former SBC President Bart Barber and…
I am a Baptist pastor in Texas, the mother of an elementary-school child and one of the plaintiffs in Nathan v. Alamo Heights Independent School District, a lawsuit challenging a Texas law (SB-10) that requires public schools to post the…
