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Project 2025 Bingo: An update

With the current administration’s effort to “flood the zone” and obfuscate their illegal and immoral shenanigans, one would be forgiven for forgetting the origins of what has become known as Project 2025. Project 2025, technically called “The Mandate for Leadership,”…

Without local journalism, accountability falters

I have profound respect for good journalism, especially from small-town newspapers. I spent a good portion of my early career in the industry doing ad sales, then transitioned to writing and eventually management. Today, my column is sent to publications…

More Americans worried about cost of raising a family

The percentage of Americans concerned about the cost of raising a family has jumped sharply during President Donald Trump’s first year back in office, according to the latest American Families Survey. Worries around the economics of family shot up 13…

Anglican schisms continue: The splintering of the splinter

The Anglican Church in North America — a denomination founded in 2009 by breaking away from the Episcopal Church — is now facing its own splintering. Bishop Derek Jones, the embattled leader of the Jurisdiction of the Armed Forces and…

In 2025, US forfeited history of climate science and leadership

The last three years saw the world’s hottest temperatures on record. Storms intensified. Financial losses mounted. Sea levels rose. But President Donald Trump is waging a holy war against “climate ideologies” while making it easier to “Drill, baby, drill.” Trump,…

Most-read opinion piece called out evangelicals’ hypocrisy

Baptist News Global’s most-read opinion pieces this year were connected in various ways to President Donald Trump and authoritarianism. Readers also showed interest in articles about Calvinist preacher John MacArthur and Christian nationalist Charlie Kirk, both of whom died in…

The uninvited guest

Grief is most unwelcome when it arrives unannounced. Neither our lack of invitation nor our lack of preparation discourages it. It is the unforeseen guest at the family gathering, barging in unbidden and heralded by tears. Yet, grief serves a…

Fort Worth pastor sues county leader for stifling free speech

A Fort Worth, Texas, pastor is suing the far-right elected leader of Tarrant County government after he was removed from a public meeting for comments County Judge Tim O’Hare didn’t like. O’Hare, a Southern Baptist deacon who was elected to…

What’s the difference between the Kennedy Center and a wedding cake?

So, what’s the difference between the Kennedy Center and a wedding cake? The First Amendment rights of wedding cake decorators are more secure than those of the center’s performing artists. Let me explain. In the same week President Donald Trump…

Trump’s Nigeria strikes: A misleading narrative

On Christmas Day, President Donald Trump announced the United States had launched airstrikes in Sokoto State in Northwestern Nigeria “to protect the country’s Christian population from the terrorist group (ISIS).” Although Nigeria’s Foreign Ministry acknowledged collaboration with the U.S., many…

Remembering Stephanie

On the third Sunday in Advent in 1991, as we returned home from Crescent Hill Baptist Church in Louisville, Ky., 16-year-old Stephanie Erin Leonard announced to us: “I think it’s time for me to be baptized.” It was the first…

Braxton Wade named BNG Clemons Fellow

Braxton Wade has been named a Clemons Fellow with Baptist News Global. Beginning Jan. 5, he will join the group of regular BNG writers producing news, analysis and opinion pieces. A Richmond, Va., native, Wade currently is a business leader seeking…

‘Be careful of Scripture heavy in law but light on grace,’ Wesley warns

‘Show up and do something,’ ACLU leader urges

From the South Side to the South Lawn and back again

Democracy as a moral practice, not just a system