There was a time when saying a federal election was rigged would have been an extraordinary political claim. In the 2000 presidential election, with the outcome hanging by a chad and resting on only a handful of votes in Florida,...
Sometimes theology walks through the front door before we are ready for it. Before we have read the book. Before we called our seminary professor. Before the deacons have formed a committee, the pastor has prepared a sermon series or…
“The Gospel Train” promises: The fare is cheap and all can go, The rich and poor are there. No second class aboard this train, No difference in the fare. The song served as a “code song” for the Underground Railroad….
The U.S. State Department has released a 45-second video that mixes Jesus’ Great Commission to the church with American foreign policy. The video is narrated by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who begins: “Our faith calls us outwards into the…
Construction of First Baptist Church in Savannah, Ga., was completed in 1833, and the Greek Revival structure has been operating on Chippewa Square in the heart of downtown ever since. It is one of the community’s busiest addresses, as well,…
John Whitehead, an associate of the late Francis Schaeffer, pioneered America’s Christian legal movement nearly half a century ago. He applauds those defending freedom today but says some have become too partisan, too money-driven and too narrowly focused on the…
Voting is one of the most important responsibilities and privileges of our citizenship. It is an opportunity to help shape the future of our communities, our state and our nation. It also is a privilege we never should take for…
Dear Editor: To our children, they were Granddaddy and Nanna. To the world of Christian education, they were giants. The first time I met Leon Castle, I had just stepped off a plane in Richmond, Va., to visit his oldest…
In 1992, James Carville was a strategist in Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign. He was trying to keep the campaign on message, so he hung a sign in the campaign headquarters that included the now famous phrase, “The economy, stupid.” The…
Adam Hamilton and James Talarico represent the kind of theology TV personality Joe Scarborough grew up hearing in Southern Baptist churches, he said in a broadcast last week. Speaking on his MSNOW show, Morning Joe, the commentator recalled his childhood…
While much has been written about the direct link between conservative evangelicalism and support for MAGA, there’s an opposite link less talked about. These are self-identified Christians who vote MAGA despite their theology. “These things are not related,” one MAGA…
Who is the church? This is a question I have wrestled with in recent years. Not in a condemning sort of way, as if I have some ultimate authority to determine who is in or out, but in a “Have…
Every American has the obligation to vote. But in this week’s midterms, white Christians in particular have a responsibility to undo the damage they’re done by supporting Donald Trump and his MAGA movement. Christians should vote against the movement that…
