Editor’s note: On Friday, April 17, a spokesperson for the “Rededicate 250” event told BNG Driscoll will not speak at this event. On Saturday, another spokesperson told BNG Driscoll never was invited and is lying. See updates. Shock jock…
United Methodists denounce Trump’s Easter threats
United Methodists this week joined a growing chorus of faith and civic leaders denouncing President Donald Trump’s threats against Iran posted on social media. On Easter Sunday, Trump posted on his social media platform: “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day,…
The GOP has a transgender fixation, and Democrats aren’t helping
While the man in charge of the most powerful military in world history threatened to blow an entire civilization into oblivion, “never to be brought back again,” many of us wondered how his Christian followers would respond. Back in 2016,…
5 a.m. musings in Amsterdam
It is both a blessing and a curse to be an American in Amsterdam tonight. On the one hand, it is a blessed escape. On the other hand, people look at you with worry and pity. On the one hand,…
Graham and Jeffress won’t criticize Trump’s Easter Sunday screed
Two of President Donald Trump’s most reliable evangelical supporters aren’t concerned about his profanity-laced Easter Sunday post that threatened war crimes against Iran — a post that caused other elected officials to call for the president to be removed from…
Pete Hegseth and the revival of racism
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is blocking the promotion of four Army officers to be one-star generals. Two of the officers targeted by Hegseth are Black and two are women on a promotion list that consists of about three dozen officers,…
Pope Leo XIV calls Trump’s threat to end Iran ‘truly unacceptable’
Catholics across the ideological spectrum, including Pope Leo XIV, expressed alarm and condemned President Donald Trump’s threat that “a whole civilization will die tonight” unless Iran strikes a deal with the United States by 8 p.m. Eastern on April 7.
How many more signs do you need?
Every week, I get emails from readers accusing us at BNG of being the Devil’s agents for publishing articles critical of Donald Trump. Inevitably, these writers think we just don’t understand the Bible or politics or culture. They know it…
Tucker Carlson calls on Christians to abandon Trump now
Tucker Carlson helped get Donald Trump elected president in 2016, but now he’s warning Christians they should abandon support for the president as he commits immoral crimes against humanity. “If there’s one theme that spans all 66 books in the…
The Antichrist is coming and is already here
Editor’s note: This article was first published on Feb. 11, 2025, and is republished here verbatim April 7, 2026. The dragon stood on the shore of the sea. And I saw a beast coming out of the sea. It…
From Hegseth to RFK Jr., leaders are using religion as symbol — not substance
In the past several weeks, religious language has been used in American public life with unusual intensity and disturbing clarity. President Donald Trump ended an Easter morning obscenity-laced threat of violence to Iran with the mocking words “Praise be to…
Fight Over Funding Islamic Schools in Texas Exposes G.O.P. Tensions
A floor-to-ceiling image of President Trump watched over the prayer hall at Iman Academy, an Islamic private school in Houston, in the same space where students also recite the Pledge of Allegiance.