To Dismantle White Supremacy, Examine Christian Nationalism
Amanda Tyler, executive director of BJC, reflects on one moment stood that out in a chaotic and often incoherent presidential debate this week. Read full piece
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New Group of Pro-Life Evangelical Leaders Forms to Back Biden
A group of evangelicals who represent major Christian institutions who are launching a group, Pro-life Evangelicals for Biden, describing the Democrat’s overall agenda as closer to what they call a “biblically balanced agenda,” even though they disagree with Biden on abortion rights. Read full piece
Secretly Recorded Tapes Show Melania Trump Bashing Christmas Decorations
First Lady Melania Trump was secretly recorded in the summer of 2018 expressing her frustration at being criticized for her husband's policy of separating families who illegally crossed the southern border while at the same time needing to perform traditional first lady duties, such as preparing
Pizzas el Buen Samaritano Puts Refugees to Work While Waiting
A Baptist minister is confronting pandemic-induced poverty, widespread despair and menacing drug cartels by putting refugees to work baking and selling pizza in Mexico. Read full piece
U.S. Statue Removals Inspire Indigenous People In Latin America To Topple Monuments
The campaign to remove Confederate statues and other symbols of white supremacy in the United States is resonating in Latin America, where protesters have destroyed monuments to European colonizers who brutalized Indigenous populations. Read full piece
Until Black Women’s Lives Matter
I’m a white woman serving as a new pastor in a city that is literally pulsating with emotion over the unjust murder of a Black woman. Read full piece
Trump Secretly Mocks His Christian Supporters
Former aides say that in private, the president has spoken with cynicism and contempt about believers. Read full piece
Drinking Our Way through the Pandemic & Out of Temperance
The COVID-19 pandemic is changing the ways in which Americans relate to alcohol, and it might be threatening the legacy of America’s temperance movement. Read full piece
Nigerian Boy Sentenced to 10 Years for Blasphemy. Then People Started Offering to Serve Part of It.
After a religious court in northwest Nigeria sentenced a 13-year-old boy to 10 years in prison for blasphemy, the head of the Auschwitz Memorial in Poland publicly offered to serve part of that time, invoking the memory of the Holocaust's youngest victims. Read full piece
After Speaking at N.C. Trump Rally, Baptist Pastor Yells ‘White Power’ from Truck
A Baptist pastor in North Carolina spoke at a Donald Trump for president rally, then from a truck yelled "white power" at a woman holding a "Black Lives Matter) sign. Read full piece