United Methodists in Indiana have officially backed UMC-related DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind., for its continued support of diversity and inclusion in the face of a threat from the state’s attorney general to strip its nonprofit status unless it complies…
Americans United sues over Anti-Christian Bias Task Force
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is refusing to respond to a Freedom of Information Act request from Americans United for Separation of Church and State, prompting AU to sue the Trump administration. The lawsuit contends the VA is violating federal…
Trump administration says it will deport abused and neglected children
The federal government can now deport abandoned, abused and neglected children even if they have been granted Special Immigrant Juvenile status. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced the change June 6, the same day it went into effect. The action…
Trump’s actions in LA are popular only with Republicans
Nearly half of Americans are opposed to the deployment of U.S. Marines and National Guard troops to Los Angeles to quell protests against President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign. A June 9 CBS News/YouGov poll found 45% of adults surveyed…
We are in dangerous, uncharted waters
“In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the people.” ― Eugene Victor Debs On Saturday, June…
Trump’s war on international students could hurt private schools too
The Trump administration’s war on blocking international students from U.S. higher education could affect not only the Ivy League but even small Christian schools and Southern Baptist Convention seminaries. While Harvard University has drawn the most attention and headlines in…
Republicans want to tax university endowments that provide scholarships
Republicans are widening the assault on higher education with a proposed tax increase on private university endowments. The “woke” tax is part of the “big beautiful bill” passed by the U.S. House in May and currently under consideration in the…
‘No vouchers, no cuts’ rally opposes ‘big beautiful bill’
A coalition of education and religious freedom groups rallied near the U.S. Capitol urging senators to defeat a Republican spending plan that would create a federal school voucher program and impose deep cuts to social service programs like Medicaid. “Today,…
New US travel ban will harm The United Methodist Church
President Donald Trump’s announced travel ban will harm members of The United Methodist Church and its far-flung ministries significantly if allowed to stand. According to the newsletter 1440: “Countries whose foreign nationals will be banned are Afghanistan, Myanmar (Burma), Chad,…
BJC leader calls Trump’s new travel ban ‘dangerous and discriminatory’
President Donald Trump’s new travel ban against nationals from a dozen countries is “dangerous and discriminatory” and is a significant threat to religious freedom, according to Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty. BJC Executive Director Amanda Tyler said the ban,…
The ‘Dogefather’ leaves the building
Elon Musk, the billionaire industrialist who donated $275 million to help Donald Trump win reelection and then served as the public face of the president’s Department of Government Efficiency, left Washington, D.C., on Friday. Trump celebrated his 130 days of…
Supreme Court clears way for Trump to deport legal immigrants
A pair of recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings have cleared the way for the deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants in the nation legally. The justices agreed May 30 to pause a lower court order preventing Department of Homeland…