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Trump’s impeachment: A trial of biblical proportions

No strategy has been more politically contrived than the adoption of biblical typologies to legitimate the Big Apple businessman and reality TV personality occupying the White House. This should concern all Americans who claim to revere the Bible and desire to live into its vision.

Supreme Court should protect religious liberty by guarding against government funding of religion

The principle that government should not fund religious activities or interfere in religious doctrine is deeply rooted in our country’s religious liberty tradition.

Abuse survivors protest Paige Patterson’s invitation to speak at Florida Baptist church

Sponsors and speakers are distancing themselves from an event in February at a Florida Baptist church featuring Paige Patterson, a former Southern Baptist Convention leader fired from his job as a seminary president for mishandling reports of sexual assault.

Grieving the state of the American church: We must snap out of our slumber

At the beginning of a new decade, I mourn the state of the church in America. The church is largely guilty of pushing people away from the body of Christ and from the full witness of Scripture.

Our grandchildren will curse us for dismantling democracy

Politicians who thwart reporters’ access to cover the impeachment trial erode a basic American strength and undermine democracy. Our grandchildren will curse them – and curse us for allowing them to do it.

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Oh no you didn’t: Ministers struggle with people behaving badly at funerals

Lack of knowledge about how to behave in church has reached a level sufficient to have experts offering suggestions to mourners on how to act – and more importantly, not act – when attending memorials and funerals.

What widowers wonder at night

It’s been nearly a thousand days and nights since my wife died. Yes, the Lord is with me. Yes, Hwa is with God. I just wish she were still with me.

Texas governor wrong to close state to refugees

Texas is refusing to welcome people who have been forcibly displaced from their homes by war, famine, religious and cultural persecution and who have passed through the extensive process of becoming a refugee in our country.

I was a pastor struggling with depression. The evangelical community offered virtually no helpful resources

Depression stole my soul and buried it so deeply that (with apologies to the Apostle Paul) for me, to live was not Christ at all, but to die most assuredly would have been gain.

Two days with the monks: Protestant envy, confusion and gratitude

Two days in a monastery is a gift, but so is realizing that you belong somewhere else.

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?