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Our love for Black children must speak louder than headlines

When I saw the recent headlines of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos being reunited with his father after being held in a Texas detention facility for more than a week, I softened at the sight of the blue bunny hat. And…

This ‘Minaj’ à trois isn’t going to end well

Editor’s note: This article includes strong sexual language. On June 20, 2018, Onika Tanya Maraj-Petty, who performs under the stage name “Nicki Minaj,” tweeted: “I came to this country as an illegal immigrant @ 5 years old. I can’t…

Maston Foundation honors Perryman and Wades

The T.B. Maston Foundation will recognize a defender of democracy and a couple who have dedicated more than six decades to Baptist leadership Feb. 26 in Arlington, Texas. Skye L. Perryman, president and CEO of Democracy Forward, will receive the…

Jesus’ cover bands: Some ‘Christians’ are making up their own songs

In 1980, I was invited to a James Taylor concert, but our church softball team was in the playoffs. If our right fielder got injured, I might get to play. I decided to put the team first and have regretted…

Seven strategies for dealing with doubt

Those who believe they believe in God but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, and not in God himself. —…

How sharing ‘that meme’ perpetuates racist harm

Donald Trump, president of the United States, shared a meme. You know the one. Despite the fact Trump is somewhat of a memelord who posts on social media an average of 18 times per day, if you’re reading this article…

Little platoons and voluntary associations: Burke, Tocqueville and the moral architecture of belonging

There are moments in the history of political thought when two thinkers, separated by time and temperament, nevertheless circle the same human truth. Edmund Burke and Alexis de Tocqueville lived in separate centuries — Burke, 18th; Tocqueville, 19th — but…

Peace ain’t what it’s cracked up to be

This past Jan. 15 — ironically, on the actual birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. — the 2025 Nobel laureate for peace, Maria Corina Machado, took her prize medal, encased in a gold (of course) and glass frame, to the…

Abuse isnʼt the result of sin; itʼs the result of omnipotence

What if power abuses are ultimately theological? Clergy abuse is so common, it has become a cliche. The new archbishop of Canterbury was accused of colluding with an abusive priest. In December, a federal judge ordered the New Orleans Archdiocese…

Survivors and advocates support Trey’s Law proposals in Missouri, Georgia and Kansas

This week, sexual abuse survivors and survivor-advocates testified in front of legislative panels in Georgia, Kansas and Missouri, supporting passage of state versions of Trey’s Law bills that impact sexual abuse cases. These and other applications of Trey’s Law are…

Jewish mass protest condemns U.S. government brutality

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…

Pastor asks attorney general to apply zero-tolerance protest policy evenly

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…

Eradicating DEI hasn’t made anything better

How Christian nationalism shows up in patriotic worship services

Dear Trump-supporting Christians, are you really OK with this?

‘Every Student. Every State’ campaign promotes school tax credit