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10 Truett McConnell trustees offer minority report praising Caner

Ten trustees of Truett McConnell University have gone public with their reasons for voting to retain Emir Caner as president while the board majority voted to fire him last Sept. 25. According to these writers, trustees are set to elect…

My prayer for Don Lemon

When I learned of the arrest of journalist Don Lemon this morning, a few things ran through my head, one being the interview I did with him back in 2024 on his faith. I still remember our conversation like it…

Letter to the Editor: Outraged

Rep. Marc Veasey wrote an article for the Dallas Morning News Jan. 27. He exposed James Rodden, who serves as a chief counsel for ICE in Dallas. The Texas Standard traced an email back to him in which he described…

Court orders are melting ICE

A federal judge in Minnesota canceled a contempt-of-court hearing for the leader of Immigration and Customs Enforcement but took the opportunity to chastise the agency for ignoring at least 96 court orders this month alone. “This list should give pause…

CBF pastor among 50 arrested in DC sit-in

A Cooperative Baptist Fellowship pastor was among about 50 clergy arrested at the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C., Jan. 29. Wayne Weathers, pastor of Vision of Hope Baptist Church in Sicklerville, N.J., was among a group of faith…

Mohler fronts campaign to overturn Obergefell

Southern Baptist influencer Al Mohler is part of a new national campaign to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage, alleging gay rights are bad for children. The “Greater Than” campaign announced this week says it is “a…

Moral courage in a time of crisis

The author delivered the following comments at “Together for Democracy” in Washington, D.C., Thursday, Jan. 29. Today is day 59 of the federal occupation of my hometown of Minneapolis. I’ve experienced 58 of those days. And let me tell…

Letitia James: ‘We’ve got the law and righteousness on our side’

“There’s more of us than there are of them, and we’ve got the law on our side and righteousness on our side,” New York Attorney General Letitia James told about 500 people gathered for a symposium on saving American democracy…

Even elected leaders are living in fear of anti-immigrant fervor

Gene Wu is the elected minority leader in the Texas House of Representatives, and he is living in fear of Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant campaign. The lawyer turned legislator was born in China but immigrated to the United States with his…

This is a fight ‘for all the marbles,’ Perryman tells democracy advocates

The current battle for democracy in America is a fight “for all the marbles,” Skye Perryman told a crowd of democracy advocates in Washington, D.C., Jan. 29. Perryman, president of Democracy Forward, was the opening speaker for her organization’s two-day…

When injustice rolls down like waters

Events transpiring in Minneapolis last week sent me back to the book of Amos 5:24: “But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream,” words worth staking one’s life on. But what happens when history takes…

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