Baptist News Global’s podcast series “Stuck in the Middle with You” is back with two special episodes that introduce a second season of the show. Co-hosts Mark Wingfield and Benjamin Cole intend to devote most of season two to interviews…
While I’ll fight: ‘This is a fundamental matter of faith’
Truth be told, we as a nation, in our rage against immigrants, no longer trust in the great “I AM,” the Lord God who sponsored the Hebrews’ extrication from Pharaoh’s Egyptian servitude. We as a nation have become inhabited by…
Suspending PEPFAR: An emergency of our own making
I recently watched a war movie in which the threat of “friendly fire” hung over soldiers on the front lines. Those behind the lines would lob shells that took out people on their side, decimating and demoralizing the troops.
Trump starts with lowest presidential approval ratings since 1953
Despite his claim to have a mandate from voters, President Donald Trump has the lowest initial approval ratings of any president since 1953 — except for himself in 2017. Gallup reports Trump’s initial job approval rating for his second term…
Trump intends to traumatize his opponents, Perryman explains
The avalanche of Donald Trump’s first-week executive orders was intended to traumatize Americans as much as to implement new policies, according to Democracy Forward President Skye Perryman. In those first days, the president signed more than 35 directives on everything…
It’s time to become American Nazi hunters
There are Nazis in our midst. Not just Nazi flag-carrying, swastika-wearing, swashbuckling Nazi-saluting members of American neo-Nazi groups, but ordinary Americans who will swear they are not Nazis. It’s now obvious that MAGA has Nazi leanings. Psychologist Keith Payne, in…
Maybe this is why Trump wants to reboot American imperialism in Greenland
From the Smurfs to Superman, 2025 will be the year of the reboot in movie theaters across America. It’s common, during times of economic crisis and social upheaval, for Hollywood to trot out familiar favorites, playing on nostalgia for a…
Catholic leaders and JD Vance spar over immigration doctrine
Vice President JD Vance and the Catholic Church — of which he is a member — are at odds over U.S. immigration policy. With less than a week in office, President Donald Trump has begun swiftly implementing anti-immigrant and anti-refugee…
Now the US House wants to censor a preacher?
When politicians act like preachers, we get members of the House of Representatives falling over themselves to sponsor House Resolution 59 condemning Bishop Mariann Budde, the Episcopal bishop of Washington, D.C. Imagine the House of Representatives taking time away from…
Preacher’s Kid Refocused the World Health Organization on Social Justice
With a flurry of executive orders in the hours after assuming the presidency on Monday (Jan. 20), President Donald Trump made some moves that dominated the headlines — especially his pardon of people arrested for their actions during the Jan….
Franklin Graham says Trump ‘stands with truth’
Donald Trump is a truth-teller and Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde is a liar, evangelist Franklin Graham told hosts of the Newsmax show “American Agenda” yesterday. “Trump stands with truth,” Graham declared. “As president, if Trump tells you something, he’s going…
Trump vs. MLK: Drawing inspiration for the struggle ahead
It is one the glaring ironies of modern American history that Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States at noon on the Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday. This was not the first time…