The stories of Graham Platner and Roy Moore, although unfolding in different parties and different eras, trace the same institutional pattern: Modern political parties elevate outsiders when they are useful and abandon them when they become inconvenient. Platner and Moore...
Nine years ago, I had nine strokes within the course of a few hours. Nine blood clots to both hemispheres of my brain. My recovery was tough, and in those early months and years of trying to find my new…
Lately as an amateur guitarist/professional theologian, I’ve been getting into the music of Larkin Poe, a Grammy Award-winning blues rock band led by guitar-playing sisters Rebecca and Megan Lovell from rural Northwest Georgia who named their band after their great-great-great-great…
Both a Democratic Socialist and a Republican ministry leader who worked with James Dobson will be on Colorado’s ballot this November. But primary voters rejected candidates affiliated with Ryan Dobson and health-and-wealth preacher Andrew Wommack in last week’s state primaries….
Back then it was Beverly LaHaye and Phylis Schlafly. Now it’s Alex Clark and Allie Beth Stuckey. To be a female conservative Christian leader is to navigate the contradictions in making careers of saying women shouldn’t have careers but “should…
At the 2022 Wild Goose Festival, historian and author Diana Butler Bass said in a sermon titled “All the Marys”: “When the women of the world take on words for themselves, when we seize our sacred texts and search them…
Americans are fascinated with megachurches, and that is leading some of the nation’s largest churches to keep getting larger, according to religion researcher Ryan Burge. Burge, a professor of practice at the Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University, has…
The world’s richest man continues to claim his destruction of USAID one year ago last week hasn’t caused a single death worldwide, but data from many reliable sources tell another story entirely. On Feb. 3, 2025, Elon Musk posted on…
The stories of Graham Platner and Roy Moore, although unfolding in different parties and different eras, trace the same institutional pattern: Modern political parties elevate outsiders when they are useful and abandon them when they become inconvenient. Platner and Moore…
God bless America, land that I love. Stand beside her, and guide her, through the night with a light from above. From the mountains, to the prairies, to the oceans white with foam, God bless America. My home sweet home….
For about a decade, I have had a book brewing that takes on the book of Job. It is now about to come out Sept. 1. It will be called Job in Exile: A Guide for Spiritual Refugees. There are…
Democratic presidents have targeted Christians and attacked religious freedom for decades, but President Donald Trump is making everything right, claims By Dawn’s Early Light, a taxpayer-funded movie starring Trump administration officials that praises the president’s Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian…
The Association of Christian Schools International is promoting a new Education Freedom Tax Credit that it lobbied for and was included in President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” he signed into law last July 4. “The OBBB included a…
