Messengers to next week’s Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting who arrive in Orlando by plane will be greeted by a surprising billboard on their drive from the airport to the convention center. Baptist Women in Ministry has purchased space on...
The trial for a former youth pastor at four Texas churches has been reset to April 20, 2026, granting both the prosecution and defense more time to prepare for what is expected to be a contentious case. Luke Cunningham, 43,…
A federal judge has permanently dismissed Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary from the long-running defamation lawsuit filed by Jane Roe, while leaving the door open for a jury trial against former seminary President Paige Patterson in the summer 2026. This lawsuit,…
“Set in stone” is an expression that conveys permanence. Perhaps some versions are not worth keeping forever. The Trump administration has continued its attack on history and representation with the recent seizure of monuments honoring World War II Black soldiers…
An opinion column titled, “Fun-loving Commies spend big to sponsor ‘No Kings’” was recently brought to my attention. The author was not entirely unknown to me. He once was on my media list in his capacity as a newspaper editor….
What would it have been like to be on a fishing trawler in the Atlantic in the perfect storm? A “perfect storm” is a meteorological event aggravated by a rare combination of circumstances. The phrase became the title of a bestselling book in…
After the turkey had been carved and the pie had been sliced, my family concluded this year’s Thanksgiving celebrations in an unexpected way: We sat together and watched the 1961 Spencer Tracy drama Judgment at Nuremberg. The film follows Spencer…
A group of 18 multifaith and nonreligious Texas families filed a class action lawsuit Dec. 2 to stop displays of the Ten Commandments in all Texas public school districts not already subject to an injunction. Already, two federal judges in Texas have…
I was in Charlotte and attended several protests against the presence of ICE in the city. One I went to was made up of largely left-leaning white protesters, which you would see at many Indivisible or No Kings rallies. These…
Half a century after Christian abortion opponents founded the first crisis pregnancy centers, the centers receive hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars. But a powerful legal group is working to shield them from taxpayer oversight. Alliance Defending Freedom, the Christian…
Members of Gen Z are committed to missions but insist on changes to old models before they sign on, says a survey from InterVarsity as the campus ministry prepares for this year’s Urbana Student Missions Conference Dec. 28-31 in Phoenix….
Efforts to combat global poverty remain unchanged for the second consecutive year in part because of severe cutbacks in American international aid, according to the director of the newly released “2025 Fordham Pope Francis Poverty Report.” “Something has shifted, and…
The president of the United States continued his pattern of using key holidays to lob false accusations at his opponents and enemies, this time throwing in a slur that drew international headlines. In his Thanksgiving Day post on Truth Social,…
