The ‘Lesser Magistrates’ Threat to Democracy
This issue of A Public Witness heads to the border to consider an ongoing legal controversy and an obscure theological theory some hope will migrate i...
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Prayers of the MAGA Faithful
This issue of A Public Witness analyzes two dozen Trump rally prayers to consider key themes and what this means for our current religious-political m...
The False Prophets of a Failed Insurrection
The story of this former youth pastor and Jan. 6 insurrectionist is worth highlighting because his more recent words show a person facing the prospect...
Speaker Johnson Doesn’t Know How Walls Work
This issue of A Public Witness looks back at Thomas Jefferson’s letter to Baptists penned 202 years ago this week and explores why prominent figures...
2023 in Review
In this review of 2023, we count down our most popular pieces and then reflect on some other highlights from the year.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings g...
Top Podcast Episodes of 2023
We had a lot of great podcast conversations this year. So let’s count down the top 10 most-downloaded of episodes of Dangerous Dogma in 2023.<!-- Ad...
Lessons From Unsettling Advent
This issue of A Public Witness shares some of the meaningful insights we’ve learned from Unsettling Advent this year on the topics of state executio...
Unsettling Advent 2023, Day 14
Rev. Nathan Empsall, executive director of Faithful America, writes that we begin to calm our anxieties only when we learn to accept the presence of d...
In Texas, Debate Over School Chaplains Escalates School Board Culture Wars
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Before He Was House Speaker, Mike Johnson Represented a Creationist Museum in Court. Here’s What That Episode Reveals About His Politics
Word&Way trustee and scholar of American evangelicalism William Trollinger argues that Johnson’s association with Ark Encounter makes sense given th...