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Pressure mounts on White House to rescind another Trump immigration policy

The pressure is steadily mounting on President Joe Biden to rescind a federal health code provision allowing the U.S. to summarily expel asylum seekers and immigrants to the home countries where they faced persecution. Immigrant rights groups, including Baptist and…

Letter to the Editor: Build a bigger table

July 26, 2021 Letter to the Editor Dear Editor: Gregg Garrett, a senior columnist for Baptist News Global, wrote recently about the recent Southern Baptist Convention in Nashville. A few quotations from his essay are forthcoming. “While Litton (new president…

In latest Nigerian school kidnapping, 28 Baptist students regain freedom, but many others remain in captivity

Two weeks after more than 120 students of Bethel Baptist High School in northern Nigeria were kidnapped by gunmen, 28 of them have been released by their captors. The release of the students happened four days after the Eid-el-Kabir, a…

It is impossible to afford rent almost anywhere in the U.S. with a minimum-wage job

An individual paid minimum wage for working 40 hours a week cannot afford the cost of a modest two-bedroom rental home anywhere in the United States, according to this year’s Out of Reach report by the National Low Income Housing…

Beware the Anti-Anti-Racist Evangelical Complex

Since publication of their new book addressing a Christian view on reparations for descendants of formerly enslaved Americans, Gregory Thompson and Duke Kwon have been met with harsh criticism by the “Anti-Anti-Racist Evangelical Complex.” That’s the best name I can…

The kingdom of heaven is like the opening ceremony of the Olympics

One of Jesus’ most common didactic formulas was the phrase “the kingdom of God is like … .” Jesus told stories or parables of common illustrations that related to the experiences of his hearers and have served as timeless word…

‘Critical Race Theory is the kryptonite of white evangelicals,’ professor declares

What makes Southern Baptists and other white evangelicals so outraged about Critical Race theory isn’t their claim that it fosters a distorted view of American law and history, but that it illuminates the racist attitudes and assumptions baked into U.S….

We will continue to teach Critical Race Theory

Our schools will continue to discuss ideas such as Critical Race Theory, and we will continue to have difficult conversations about how slavery, Jim Crow (a term coined in Louisville), and the constructed notion of white superiority shaped our history…