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‘Pro-family’ groups stick with Tucker Carlson

Tucker Carlson’s easygoing Oct. 27 interview with Nick Fuentes, a popular young racist and antisemite who reveres Adolf Hitler, has forced Republicans to clarify whether they oppose all antisemitism or just antisemites on the Left. So far, conservative and pro-family…

BWA, CBF and ABCUSA working together on Caribbean aid

The Baptist World Alliance and its partners must help rebuild Caribbean communities devastated by Hurricane Melissa and speak up about the human causes of catastrophic storms, said Karl B. Johnson, chairman of the Baptist World Alliance. “We have to commit…

Documentary spotlights healing for ex-cons through arts

As a former public access TV producer, I have a certain affection for low-budget documentaries. Filmmaking often is an expensive medium, and high-profile documentary filmmakers use all the same tricks and tools as blockbuster directors to great ends. They can…

Let’s change how we talk about immigrants

Conversations about immigration, especially on social media, reveal hard lines in the sand, a closed binary line of thinking, along with disgust, anger and outrage. Bring up immigration at the family Thanksgiving gathering, and the turkey may burn in the…

Fundamentalism takes another stab at the BGCT

Earlier this week, the Baptist General Convention of Texas met in Abilene, Texas. This once-robust convention used to fill convention centers in Dallas, Fort Worth or Waco. This time, they gathered at the Abilene Convention Center with 2,007 attendees, made…

The gift of a transgender child

Sarah has long been concerned with the scope of my reading, and she is right. For years I have focused my reading on history and current events. Sarah said fiction belonged in my reading diet, too. Fiction, she said, would…

Meet the ‘transvestigators’

Erika Kirk has been no stranger to online scrutiny in the months since her husband, Charlie, was murdered. When she appeared on “The Charlie Kirk Show” just five days after his memorial service, many people were surprised at how bright…

Maybe you should read the comments because they’re now reality

“Never read the comments,” the sage wisdom of the internet says. That’s especially true on X, where internet trolls thrive unregulated. But sometimes the comments give you a sense of what some segment of the population is thinking and what…

Ten Commandments displays blocked again by court order

A federal judge has ordered 14 Texas school districts to remove Ten Commandments displays from classrooms by Dec. 1 and barred them from posting any new copies pending the outcome of litigation. The Nov. 18 preliminary injunction stems from a…

Texas governor seeks to ban Muslim organizations

The Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations are “foreign terrorist organizations” and are banned from owning property in Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott declared in a Nov. 18 proclamation. “The Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR have long made their goals…

Texas Baptists elect ordained woman as convention president

Texas Baptists elected an ordained female clergywoman as convention president this week for the first time ever. Debbie Potter, children’s pastor at Trinity Baptist Church in San Antonio, was chosen as president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas in…

The push is on for evangelical time-release programs

LifeWise Academy is leading the charge to increase the number of schools nationwide required to allow off-site Bible instruction during school hours, constitutional advocates said during a webinar hosted by Americans United for Separation of Church and State. The $35…

Understanding Al Mohler’s case against women

BNG podcasts feature each SBC presidential candidate

What the church got wrong about queer people

Trump admin denies hunger strike at immigrant detention center