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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…

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…

Trump’s war on ‘woke’ targets federal grants and foreign relations

Reflections on In the Twilight of the Christian West

Why rural families need support now

Why do we keep sounding the alarm?