Senator Lindsey Graham is dead at 71. He died the way he lived — in motion, at full throttle, pressing some cause or another into the next news cycle. He had just returned from Ukraine, where he met with President...
Legal challenges to the Trump administration’s immigrant deportation practices are providing new — and sometimes competing — court rulings every week. On June 23, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that Green Card holders can be denied reentry into the United…
When Ethan was sitting across from me, I heard something soft in his face, something that does not match the weight he carries. His voice had the calm of a man who has known both love and loss and still…
It happened before Sunday school, the way the most interesting conversations often do — not inside the carefully prepared lesson, but earlier, during chit chat, before anyone officially called the class to order. Someone mentioned Elon Musk had become, or…
My wife, Bobbie, died of Alzheimer’s disease earlier this year. While I have been a pastor more than 45 years and have conducted more than 500 funerals, I was not prepared for the grief that overwhelmed me when she died….
According to the U.S. Parks Service, 7,000 fireworks are typically used for pyrotechnics displays in our nation’s capital. For the MAGA-aligned “Freedom 250” Independence Day celebration, Trump insisted on 850,000 fireworks — 120 times the normal amount. Ahead of the…
The president has spread abroad a kind of patriotism that is foreign to this great nation. His actions have mimicked King George III of England, for whom patriotism was obedience. In the Declaration of Independence, we (mainly white males) claimed…
Robert B. Sloan was born and raised in West Texas — in don’t fence me in West Texas. Born in Coleman, raised in Abilene, he died in Houston, America’s fourth largest city on July 4, a fitting place and day…
The is a developing story and will be updated as new information becomes available. Veteran Baptist educator Robert B. Sloan died of a massive stroke July 4, according Heights Church in Houston, where Sloan was a pastor and theologian…
Note: This article includes an explicit discussion of suicide and mental health issues. In the last 20 years, the words we use to talk about suicide have changed. We are chastised for saying that someone “committed suicide,” because in…
This Fourth of July, somewhere in America, a church will drag the American flag over to the altar and call it worship. A preacher will stand in a pulpit built for the gospel and preach nationalism instead, and no one…
“Christianity overwhelmingly was the No. 1 influence in the founding of this constitutional republic,” claims Focus on the Family in its new 20-minute video, “Faith in America: 250 Years.” “America was born only because of Christian principles and Christian Scriptures,”…
Living in Texas as a transgender woman sometimes feels like walking through your own neighborhood with three heads. People stare. People whisper. People make decisions about who and what you are before you have said a single word — decisions…
