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Whenever you think about the principled Southern Baptist leaders opposing the ascension of America’s Problem Child to the GOP presidential nomination, think of this paragraph from an NPR report on…

Islam, weddings, B’nai B’rith, and more. Oh my.

Many people are questioning whether Donald Trump’s dominance in the GOP nominating process, and his dismissal of evangelical leaders like Russell Moore, spells the end of the religious right as a key…

@drmoore Russell Moore is truly a terrible representative of Evangelicals and all of the good they stand for. A nasty guy with no heart! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 9, 2016 In the space…

Credit where credit is due. Ted Cruz has a way about him. A way that is sanctimonious, oleaginous, and false. I have been reading and hearing that there is considerable mourning among the ranks of the…

There’s Baptists and there’s Baptists; there’s politics, and there’s politics.

Ted Cruz’s abrupt exit from the race for the GOP presidential nomination after his devastating 16-point loss to Donald Trump in this week’s Indiana primary was just the latest surprise in one of the…

David Eagle reports in The Christian Century what many small-church pastors have known for a while: megachurches are where parishioners go when they want a great (big) youth program for the kids and…

Donald Trump has a way of turning things topsy-turvy, and the religious world is certainly not exempt. The Southern Baptist Convention (or some of its leaders, anyway) have joined the Never Trump…

Now that Ted Cruz’s last hope for stopping Donald Trump rests on ginning up panic and outrage over transgender women using the ladies room, we can officially say that the Republican nominating process…