Former Baylor University basketball superstar Brittney Griner has been released from captivity in Russia in a prisoner swap involving a Russian arms dealer, President Joe Biden announced Dec. 8. “She’s safe. She’s on a plane. She’s on her way home…
In Ukraine, Baptists speak most often of ‘prayers’ and ‘gratitude’ amid the horrors of war
Reading through Facebook posts and updates from the Ukrainian Baptists, the two words most commonly used are “prayers” and “gratitude.” There are abundant reasons for our brothers and sisters to cry out in need to God and to give thanks….
Dear Baylor, how long will you ignore Brittney Griner’s plight?
Dear Baylor administration: What could possibly be so difficult about acknowledging one of your alumnae who brought great fame to your school through a national basketball championship now languishing in a Russian penal colony and who needs to be brought…
Baylor women’s coach signals her love and support for Brittney Griner, while the former coach remains silent
Baylor University’s head women’s basketball coach, Nicki Collen, was loud and clear Sept. 26 about her support for Brittney Griner, the former Bears and WNBA superstar currently serving a nine-year sentence in Russia on a questionable drug charge. “BG, first…
Why aren’t we defending Brittney Griner?
Brittney Griner is a professional basketball player. Her story reads like the all-American girl she is, but now she is in a Russian prison, and her critics are saying she is “unpatriotic,” “un-American,” and not worthy of our mercy and…
Amid the refugees waiting in Mexico due to Title 42, a Russian nurse who opposes the war in Ukraine
A Fellowship Southwest-backed ministry in Mexico is housing a Russian asylum seeker who fled her country for protesting Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine. The organization recently announced that Red de Albergues para Migrante — or the Migrant Shelter Network in…
Why American democracy is threatened in Ukraine
American democracy is endangered in the most unlikely of places: Ukraine. Events swirling around the Russian invasion of Ukraine have implications for our own freedom. I have no interest in conjuring the apocalyptic visions of rapture believers, but I do…
Moldova, one of the poorest countries in Europe, opens its doors and hearts to Ukrainians
The fact that Moldova is one of the poorest nations in Europe has not kept it from being one of the most welcoming and generous to hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees fleeing the Russian invaders. And Baptists have been…
The solution to a peaceful world is respecting other people’s religious freedom, U.S. leader says
Nadine Maenza is nearing the end of a two-year term as chair of United States Commission on International Religious Freedom and a four-year term as a commissioner. USCIRF is an independent, bipartisan government agency that monitors religious freedom worldwide and…