An Ohio city was wrong in using zoning laws to bar a resident from hosting a Jewish prayer gathering in his home in 2021, says Amanda Tyler, executive director of Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty. “Being free to exercise...
I threw my paint brush down and demanded my mother explain why she didn’t like my fiancée. It was summer between my junior and senior year in college. Mom and I were painting a bathroom in my parents’ house. She…
A man resigned from his job last week, and the reason he gave should be read slowly. Jacob Coxon spent three years doing research at two of the companies building the most advanced artificial intelligence in the world. When he…
Not too long ago, I met a man on a dating app. We hit it off quickly, exchanging jokes about the 1990s elementary-school publishing juggernaut Animorphs. We also noted you can use jokes about the Animorphs as a very quick…
There are Christians in America who can tell you exactly what righteousness looks like in somebody else’s bedroom but cannot recognize injustice in their own neighborhood. They know which sins keep a person out of the pulpit. They know which…
I’ve written multiple times about Donald Trump’s obsession with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and his authoritarian motivations to control the arts and culture institutions in this country. The president’s obsession is now threatening the country’s…
On September 14, I did something I’ve never done in nearly two decades of ministry when I presided over the funeral of a member of the search committee that called me to my current pastorate. Roger Crittenden was a retired…
Vice President JD Vance mischaracterized the views of U.S. Senate candidate Adam Hamilton and the work of his United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Sept. 14 drawing an unusual rebuke from the bishop of Hamilton’s conference. Vance appeared at…
In a move supporters consider common sense, Thomas Paine is one step closer to getting his own memorial in Washington, D.C. On Wednesday, Sept. 16, the House Natural Resources Committee unanimously approved a bill to erect a memorial to Paine near…
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom now has its full contingent of nine members, with President Donald Trump naming three new members. USCIRF is comprised of nine private sector commissioners, with three selected by the sitting president, two by…
American death penalty abolitionists are raising concerns about two executions with troubling humanitarian and moral implications. One involves double-murderer Jeffrey Lee, an Alabama Death Row inmate scheduled to die by lethal injection Sept. 17. His jury’s 7-5 vote for life…
An Ohio city was wrong in using zoning laws to bar a resident from hosting a Jewish prayer gathering in his home in 2021, says Amanda Tyler, executive director of Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty. “Being free to exercise…
We’ve written more about the ecclesial abstention doctrine this year than I have in my entire career in religious journalism. Increasingly, secular courts are appealing to this doctrine to dismiss — or avoid — cases that present thorny debates among…
