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Is Scott Adams in heaven?

‘Dilbert’ cartoonist Scott Adams died Jan. 13 after a short battle with prostate cancer. Adams was known for his wry satire of white-collar office life through his long-running comic strip, which appeared in 2,000 newspapers in at least 70 countries…

This week on BNG podcasts

BNG’s reporting on financial obfuscation at the Southern Baptist Convention North American Mission Board is the topic of a new “Stuck in the Middle with You” podcast. Co-hosts Mark Wingfield and Benjamin Cole welcome to the show Jon Bullock, a…

Great Rivers Fellowship supports bombed synagogue

A network of Cooperative Baptist Fellowship churches in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi expressed grief and solidarity with a Jewish congregation targeted by an arsonist earlier this month. “An attack on a place of worship is an assault on one of…

It’s time for Christians to come together on immigration

Several years ago, I was serving as pastor of a church in rural Oklahoma. A group of women felt led to provide a baby shower for a young woman who attended our church. It was a tough situation for the…

He wanted to be a prison chaplain but was told he had to be Christian

A Maryland county and a Christian prison ministry have agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by an imam barred from serving as a jail chaplain because he is Muslim. The Council on American-Islamic Relations announced the $195,000 settlement for Edrees…

If JD Vance truly were ‘pro-life,’ this wouldn’t be happening

Vice President JD Vance calls himself “pro-life.” At the recent March for Life, he spoke with moral certainty about the sacredness of unborn life, warning that neutrality in the face of vulnerability is a moral failure and insisting a nation…

Here’s how JD Vance twists the tale

JD Vance needs to go back to school for a lesson in logic. In a recent social media post about the unrest in Minneapolis, the vice president illustrates a classic fallacy embraced by his kind of MAGA conservatives. On one…

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From immigration policy to civilian death: How far will this go?

Editor’s note: This piece was written after the death of Renee Good but before the death of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. The death of Renee Nicole Good ignited renewed street tension amid an already chaotic start to 2026. From mass deportations and controversial mis-deportations,…

Burge’s Vanishing Church shows high costs of politicized churches

Ryan Burge, perhaps our top “quantitative scholar of American religion,” makes numbers speak, and in his latest book they tell the sad story of how politics trumped creed in evangelical churches, leaving “no place for moderates,” many of whom departed….

Faith, silence and protest in Union Square

Last Friday, I joined what was estimated at 4,000 people in Union Square in New York City. We gathered to protest the murder of Renée Good and the detention of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos. But the purpose of the march…

The dawn of Apple Pie ISIS

Let’s be clear about language before we are clear about lives. The word “agent” will not be used here to describe armed, militia-style bullies with low emotional intelligence who terrorize communities, abduct children in Walmart parking lots, ambush day laborers…

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