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A day after President Donald Trump took office, the Department of Homeland Security released a memo reversing a policy that had discouraged immigration officials from making arrests “in or near so-called ‘sensitive’ areas”—places that include churches, schools, and hospitals. Concerned about their immigrant members and the threat posed to religious liberty, some religious groups quickly Read…
As baptisms in Southern Baptist congregations increase, a growing percentage of those entering the baptismal pools are adults. In the 2025 Southern Baptist Convention Annual Church Profile (ACP), baptisms grew for the fifth straight year to reach 263,075, the highest total since 2016. This was the first time in 75 years that the SBC saw five consecutive Read more... The post The Biggest Group…
On June 9, 45-year-old Emanuel Kemboi, a long-distance truck driver in Nairobi, Kenya, woke up to see social media exploding about protests in in Nanyuki town. Local media outlets had reported that Kenya and the United States had partnered in building a 50-bed quarantine facility for Ebola patients in Laikipia County—about 185 miles north of Read more... The post Kenyan Christians Debate…
This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter. Subscribe here. Someone once came up to me, almost shaking in fear over one of Jesus’ Beatitudes. The one that troubled her was “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy” (Matt. 5:7, ESV throughout). Her problem was that she had once experienced what she considered betrayal from Read more... The post How to Forgive Someone Who…
King Saul famously courts a medium in 1 Samuel 28, summoning the ghostly figure of the departed Samuel in a moment of distress and disconnection with God. This summer, German researchers summoned new insight on this mysterious passage after uncovering medieval sermon notes from Augustine of Hippo, one of the defining voices of the early Read more... The post Newly Found Augustine Sermons Explore…
“We need a witness for a hearing. Can you get us a homeless family: mother, father—father out of work in the past four months from an industrial plant?” That’s the question many politicians and journalists addressed to “homeless advocates” in the 1990s, as described by economist Thomas Sowell in his powerful book The Vision of the Anointed. I Read more... The post Homelessness Is More Than…
Religious liberty is for everyone. It is for Christians and Muslims, Jews and Mormons, Wiccans and neopagans and observers of whatever other strange rites people are inventing these days. It is for false religion as well as true, so long as its practitioners do not harm their neighbors. This is a fundamental principle of American society and governance: Read more... The post Texas Should Not…
Kidnappers released Kevin Rideout, an American missionary pilot held hostage for nine months in Niger, last Friday, according to his missions agency, Serving in Missions (SIM). Throughout Rideout’s captivity, one missionary familiar with ministry in Niger (we’re leaving out his name to protect his work and will call him M) gathered on Zoom every Wednesday Read more... The post US Missionary Freed…
All of us are experiencing our lives through what we already know. That may seem like a simple statement, but once you start thinking about the complexity of your mind, it is hard not to feel overwhelmed by it. If you have raised children or been in a close relationship with a child from a Read more... The post Should My Attachment Style Affect My Relationship with God? appeared first on…
What is God like? Is he a harmless grandfatherly figure, comfortably reclining on a cloud? A bohemian shouting about love (or wrath) through a megaphone on a street corner? An enigmatic entity who wound up the universe like a clock and now watches, disengaged, from afar? A scowling judge with a gavel? A thunderous tyrant Read more... The post Jesus Doesn’t Govern with a Lightning Bolt appeared…
