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Let’s get this one thing clear

When I talk with conservative friends about immigration in America, the line I most often hear justifying President Donald Trump’s deportation bonanza is that all these people are criminals by virtue of being here without authorization. This reminds me of…

Ministry jobs

Baptist News Global provides a free listing of ministry-related jobs for Baptist churches, theological institutions and organizations across the United States. Each free posting is for 30 days and is limited to 150 words. Postings may be extended another 30…

South Carolina executes another man by firing squad

South Carolina executed convicted serial killer Stephen Bryant by firing squad Nov. 14, making him the third inmate to die by that method in the state in 2025. Bryant died after being shot by Department of Corrections employees. He was…

Christian leaders declare solidarity with Palestinian Christians

U.S. Christian leaders are circulating a declaration pledging solidarity with their Palestinian counterparts and pledging to advocate for a permanent and lasting ceasefire in Gaza. “Our Palestinian Christian siblings are telling us that they are devastated by the extreme violence…

Megyn Kelly: ‘He wasn’t into, like, 8-year-olds’

Former Fox and NBC News personality Megyn Kelly proclaimed on her Sirius XM podcast that she did not believe at first that Jeffrey Epstein was a pedophile because “somebody very, very close to this case” told her Epstein preferred the…

Will Zohran Mamdani institute Sharia law in New York?

Zohran Mamdani is the mayor-elect of New York City, the largest city in the United States, and will take office on New Year’s Day 2026. Mamdani was born in Kampala, Uganda, and became a naturalized American citizen in 2018. He…

Unpacking the Catholic bishops’ statements on immigration

Conservative Catholics in the United States have had a rough week. From the openly gay ABC news anchor Gio Benitez being publicly confirmed in New York, to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops condemning the Trump administration’s immigration policies,…

Baptist legislator rejects Trump’s redistricting scheme

President Donald Trump asked Texas Republicans in July to take the unprecedented step of redrawing five state congressional maps to favor the GOP. They complied the next month, followed by legislatures in Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio. California countered with…

If evangelicals had a pride parade

Over the last decade, advances in social justice have been rolled back by a renewed sense of evangelical pride. Donovan O. Schaefer in Whiteness and Civilization: Shame, Race, and the Rhetoric of Donald Trump, argues: “The success of Trump’s rhetoric…

Affirming women’s leadership as a pneumatological moment

“When churches do not recognize the leadership gifts of women, the whole body is impoverished.” — Elizabeth Conde-Frazier, A Many Colored Kingdom As a Latina and Baptist ordained minister, reading about the “Six Markers of Congregational Environments which are Empowering…

American Baptist leaders praise clergy protesting ICE

Leaders of the American Baptist Home Mission Societies issued a statement Nov. 18 offering support for clergy who have been arrested while protesting ICE, including an American Baptist pastor in the Chicago area. While many Mainline Protestant clergy have been at the…

MAGA’s appetite for jelly donuts a la Trump

A little more than a year ago, a slim majority of voters elected Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States. Some of those voters now find themselves experiencing buyer’s remorse. As for the rest? They’re either lying,…

‘Be careful of Scripture heavy in law but light on grace,’ Wesley warns

‘Show up and do something,’ ACLU leader urges

From the South Side to the South Lawn and back again

Democracy as a moral practice, not just a system