It may now seem surprising to many United Methodists, and even more Baptists, that for most of our histories in the United States, all Methodists and Baptists were regularly designated as evangelical denominations. The most important reason is that both...
A professor at John Piper’s Bethlehem Seminary prayed on Sunday not for God to protect the terrified people of Minneapolis, but for God to protect ICE from the violent people of Minneapolis. “I’m a pastor in Minnesota. Here’s how I…
Despite what President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance are saying, most Americans do not believe an ICE agent’s killing of a Minneapolis mom was justified. In fact, that incident has pushed even more people into the camp of…
My family loves the holiday season. So much so that we listen to Christmas music year-round. Our yard is usually the most decorated on the street. We attend the Christmas Eve candlelight service at church with our daughter. On Christmas…
The troubled think tank behind the Project 2025 blueprint for the Trump administration has issued a new blueprint. “Saving America by Saving the Family” affirms heterosexual families with children as “the foundation of civilization” and calls on government to encourage…
As 2026 dawns, The United Methodist Church enters a new era much like a chasing dog that caught a passing car: Now that they’ve got it, what do they do with it? The UMC changed radically on Nov. 5, 2025,…
When Sen. Eric Schmitt gave the keynote address at the 2025 National Conservatism Conference, he hung on America a discredited sign once found on all public bathrooms in the South, “Whites Only.” In his speech, titled “What is an American?”…
A Baptist church in Frankfort, Ky., turned down a much-needed federal grant for facilities repairs because the award mandated cooperation with immigration enforcement efforts and elimination of diversity, equity and inclusion policies. First Baptist Church on St. Clair was awarded…
A dozen members of Congress are back in court because the White House quietly reinstated a rule barring unannounced inspections of immigration detention centers. The legislators filed an urgent motion in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Jan….
The ongoing effort to seek government funding for Christian public schools failed in Oklahoma last year, but advocates are trying again with Christian public schools in Colorado and Tennessee and a Jewish public school in Oklahoma. The Supreme Court deadlocked…
Dear Editor: Over the course of the previous year, Christian nationalists in Texas pushed through Senate Bill 10, which requires public school classrooms in the state to display the Ten Commandments. The rationale behind this legislation is the claim that…
Anti-Muslim sentiments have crossed the Red River, with Oklahoma now joining Texas in public fights against Muslim building projects. City Council members in Broken Arrow, a suburb of Tulsa, voted Jan. 12 to deny a rezoning request tied to a…
Ever since the Washington Post broke the story on Christmas Eve that the Trump administration is converting warehouse spaces across the country into literal human warehouses, the towns named in the story have been playing catch up. Last Friday, the…
