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Reflections on Death of the Pastor’s Wife
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on September 1, 2026. The morning after receiving word that his wife, Mica, had died by a gunshot wound to the head, pastor John-Paul Miller declared with excitement to his congregation, “I wrote a new parody for you all today!” Cheers erupted as Miller announced that his “best […]
Christian Crusaders create chaos in Minneapolis
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on August 24, 2026. Two vehicles of Christian crusaders led by January 6 insurrectionist Jake Lang swerved “unexpectedly and abruptly” through police barriers onto the sidewalk outside Minneapolis City Hall on Saturday, according to Minnesota Police Chief Bill Peterson. “Both vehicles drove onto the sidewalk in front of […]
In Dearborn, the latest evidence of the new Crusades
Police in tactical gear pushed their way through the crowd of Christian Crusaders in Dearborn, Mich., Tuesday as January 6 insurrectionist Jake Lang and pastor Lorenzo Sewell led the flag-waving, shofar-blowing worship warriors into battle against their Muslim neighbors. Dressed in tactical gear with an American flag on his vest, Lang yelled through a megaphone about […]
Would Jesus electrocute children with shock gloves?
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on August 16, 2026. We now have reached the stage in MAGA’s descent into depravity where they respond to criticism of ICE vigilantes shooting people by opting for the more humane practice of electrocution. On Aug. 11, the Associated Press reported that Immigration and Customs Enforcement has plans to acquire […]
Sean Feucht thinks Jesus loves his invasion of a Muslim procession
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on August 10, 2026. Christian nationalist troubadour Sean Feucht is bragging about interrupting a peaceful procession of Muslims in Chicago Aug. 9. “We did a Jesus March right through the Muslim March in Chicago!!! This is crazy!!!” Feucht declared on social media Sunday. “This may be the most […]
Don’t be surprised white evangelicals still support Jesse Watters
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on August 6, 2026. Given that white evangelicals have spent the last decade largely ignoring the sexual abuse being perpetrated by their pastors and politicians and even calling such allegations a hoax, it’s no wonder they’d celebrate sexually abusive pundits as well. According to 2025 data from Public Religion […]
Beware of evangelists on airplanes
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on August 4, 2026. What could be worse than “Snakes on a Plane”? How about “Preachers on a Plane.” This is the latest trend going viral in white evangelicalism’s spiritual warfare campaign. And as Samuel L. Jackson would say, “Enough is enough!” Attention to this annoying practice has […]
Complementarians should learn from moral clarity of Congress
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on July 28, 2026. Congress has a 9% confidence rating among Americans, according to recent data from Gallup. And yet, it’s more ethical than mainstream evangelicalism’s institution of complementarian marriage. Discussion about addressing sexual ethics on Capitol Hill has grown over the past few months following the resignations of […]
Men-only gyms seek to protect Christian men from lust
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on July 22, 2026. White conservative Christian men are rising up all over the nation to take their place at the top of their families, churches and communities. We’re witnessing their rise to power through the Rededicate 250 events where men like Mark Driscoll called on young men “to get […]
How Christian nationalism shows up in patriotic worship services
“What a Sunday!” Houston First Baptist Church’s social media team celebrates on Facebook. “From worship to fellowship, Pocket Constitutions to patriotic tunes, we’re grateful for a church family that gathers with thankful hearts and points people to Jesus. Happy birthday, America!” That was a reference to the megachurch’s July 5 worship services where Senior Pastor Greg […]
There is no safe space in John Piper’s cruel theology
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on June 30, 2026. Jesus orchestrated the brutal murder of your teenage friend and her mom. So says John Piper in a recent “Ask Pastor John” podcast episode titled, “Sovereignty and My Murdered Friend.” The podcast begins by acknowledging it’s a “very heavy episode” before asking people to donate […]
At this VBS, a skit simulates a violent execution
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on June 30, 2026. “Take him out! Blow him up! Take him out! Blow him up!” the children chant during a vacation Bible school program at Mt. Olivet Baptist Church in Lexington, Ky. With eerie music looming over the scene, the viral TikTok video shows an armed soldier […]
What Disclosure Day reveals about evangelicals’ fears
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on June 25, 2026. While the Trump administration and their voters seem increasingly hostile to releasing the Epstein Files, they’re continuing to release UFO files. The images, videos and written testimony have led to a constant stream of speculation and questions over the past month, not only about […]
Behind SBC’s missions agenda: Eternal conscious torment
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on June 10, 2026. The headlines each year going into the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting seem to focus on Southern Baptists’ latest attempts to put women in their place and keep them there. Whether they were voting to remove Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church from SBC membership, voting […]
Understanding Al Mohler’s case against women
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on June 4, 2026. The so-called Mohler Amendment to prohibit women from functioning as pastors in Southern Baptist churches is being hailed by his minions as “critical for us at this juncture.” According to Brian Arnold, pastor of First Baptist Church Paducah, Ky.: “In a day and age […]
In conversation with Meredith Stone about Mohler’s amendment
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on May 28, 2026. As Southern Baptists prepare to consider Al Mohler’s so called “Truth and Unity Amendment” at their annual meeting in Orlando next month, many Baptist women are becoming weary of Southern Baptist men defining “unity” as joining together to silence women. Meredith Stone, executive director […]
At Rededicate 250, Chris Tomlin emerges as worship warrior
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on May 27, 2026. As my son and I walked through the press screening and out to the gathering space for Rededicate 250, I began having flashbacks to my years in a white evangelical megachurch. With a pre-roll video set to worship music filling the space with energy, […]
Here’s what Baptists said at Rededicate 250
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on May 20, 2026. Despite a lack of religious diversity among the speakers at the Trump administration’s “Rededicate 250” event held last Sunday on the National Mall, conservative Baptists played a prominent role. The speaker lineup for the nine-hour religious festival included two Catholics and one Jewish rabbi, […]
What I saw and heard in DC this weekend
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on May 18, 2026. Evangelicals flocked to Washington, D.C., over the weekend to attend the Trump administration’s “Rededicate 250” event on Sunday, which was billed as “rededicating” the country to being “one nation under God.” The night before Trump’s official event — funded by public money — Sean Feucht led […]
Is pluralism possible under an evangelical Christian God?
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on May 15, 2026. What does pluralism mean for people who believe there’s only one way to God, who believe God reigns, but who live in a nation that values liberty and justice for all? This is the question many Christians are wrestling through. As evangelical Christians gain […]
End-times prophets say we’re about to find out aliens are demons
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on May 8, 2026. “The rumors are real,” pastor Mike Signorelli wrote on X. “I was brought into a private briefing with other pastors. No phones, no cameras, no recordings. We were told plainly: Disclosure is coming, and what follows will shake the faith of many. If pastors […]
Newsboys lawsuit exposes underlying finances of CCM business
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on May 5, 2026. In the summer of 2001, I risked getting expelled by Bob Jones University for the chance to watch Michael W. Smith in concert at a Franklin Graham crusade at Wofford College in Spartanburg, S.C. This was just one year removed from the university […]
How bad theology has set us up for sexualized AI deepfakes
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on May 1, 2026. Given the research I conduct for writing, the ads my algorithm sends me can be all over the map. Nothing ever surprises me. But after looking into the recent story about 62 million visits to a website that contained instructions on how to sexually […]
When it comes to religion, question everything
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on April 24, 2026. Surrounded by FBI agents attempting to coax them into their vehicles, five of Samuel Bateman’s underaged wives huddled tightly. With trembling arms around one another, they sang, “And he will come again, and one by one we’ll rise, to praise his holy name.” Then […]
Why was the AI image of Trump as Jesus the last straw?
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on April 15, 2026. The AI image President Donald Trump posted of himself as Jesus is a sobering reminder not of how much Trump is obsessed with himself, but of how white evangelicals serve a higher power than Trump, and what that higher power may be like. We […]
The GOP has a transgender fixation, and Democrats aren’t helping
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on April 10, 2026. While the man in charge of the most powerful military in world history threatened to blow an entire civilization into oblivion, “never to be brought back again,” many of us wondered how his Christian followers would respond. Back in 2016, when white evangelicals refused […]
What happens when fools are elevated into highest power?
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on April 1, 2026. April Fools’ Day is a time for jokes and pranks and hoping your kids, partners or coworkers don’t take things too far. The goal is to have a few laughs while making it through the day relatively unscathed. There are multiple theories about the […]
Sometimes reading the Bible isn’t as wholesome as it sounds
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on March 26, 2026. In the latest example of a failed Republican candidate for Congress turned worship warrior, Bunni Pounds is heeding the Trump administration’s call to celebrate the nation’s 250th anniversary by pretending we’re a theocracy. After graduating from Dallas Baptist University with a degree in political […]
One thing complementarian ministries share with Epstein Files
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on March 20, 2026. One of the most disturbing revelations of the Epstein Files is how similar the power dynamics of the men at Epstein’s Little Saint James Island were to the men in mainstream complementarian ministries. Of course, most pastors aren’t actively assaulting children. So conservative evangelicals […]
Why are evangelicals freaking out over James Talarico?
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on March 12, 2026. He’s being called “Pastor Pornhub” and “the living embodiment of Satan on earth” by Christians on the religious and political right. So who is this terrifying figure? Is he a Dallas megachurch pastor who had to step aside for a “restoration process” after some […]
SBC influencer William Wolfe wants an America of white people
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on March 10, 2026. “My boys all look like me. And I want my children to grow up in a country where they’re not minorities,” William Wolfe said out loud in a video now posted online. “I want my boys to grow up in a country where they don’t look […]
Are US military commanders really talking about Armageddon?
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on March 6, 2026. Are U.S. military commanders really telling the soldiers fighting in Iran that President Donald Trump has been “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth”? In a piece published Monday on Substack, independent journalist […]
‘And lead us into laughter … ‘
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on February 26, 2026. “I’ll get real big hair, marry a man, let him lead, write a book called, ’Submissive Wife, Submissive Life,’ adopt a Southern accent out of nowhere,” comedian Taylor Tomlinson joked while imagining what it might look like for her to repent and return to […]
Forget empathy, the new war is on lament
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on February 18, 2026. Ever since Joe Rigney released his book about empathy being a sin, the TheoBros of conservative evangelicalism have been piling into his bus, demonizing empathy for those they run over as “the greatest rhetorical tool of manipulation in the 21st century,” and as “the […]
Kid Rock and evangelicals’ obsession with celebrity
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on February 12, 2026. In a world where everyone cycles through being an expert, the week after the Super Bowl typically turns into everyone posing as professional semioticians, offering their artistic analysis of the Super Bowl halftime show and the game. Most often, this devolves into conservatives fussing […]
Josh Howerton redefines following Jesus as becoming empire
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on February 5, 2026. Josh Howerton is an authoritarian theocrat who thinks his penis, pulpit and piety give him the right to rule the world. In a recent episode of his “Live Free” podcast, Howerton accuses YouTuber Rhett McLaughlin of gaslighting Christians. And in doing so, Howerton demonstrates how white […]
Alex Pretti’s murder lays bare the lie of patriarchy
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on February 1, 2026. Tragic acts of violence often lay bare the gap between what a system claims to be and what it actually enables. In the story of Alex Pretti’s murder, we come face to face with whether patriarchy — long sacralized as a system of safety […]
The TheoBros are getting the war they want in Minnesota
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on January 24, 2026. John Piper’s Minnesota minions are apparently rejoicing in answered prayers tonight as yet another one of their neighbors has been shot dead by ICE. Two weeks ago, Andy Naselli, pastor of Christ the King Church in Stillwater, Minn., and professor of systematic theology and New […]
Let’s talk about how Cities Church treats women
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on January 21, 2026. “David Easterwood is a pastor here. He is also the director of the Field Office for ICE in St. Paul. So someone who claims to worship God, teaching people in this church about God, is out there overseeing ICE agents,” civil rights lawyer Levy […]
Calvinist pastor prays for God to smite the people of Minneapolis
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on January 13, 2026. A professor at John Piper’s Bethlehem Seminary prayed on Sunday not for God to protect the terrified people of Minneapolis, but for God to protect ICE from the violent people of Minneapolis. “I’m a pastor in Minnesota. Here’s how I prayed for ICE yesterday,” […]
There’s a reason more women seek help from therapists than pastors
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on January 9, 2025. The Gospel Coalition’s New Year’s resolution apparently is shoring up pastoral power by shaming conservative evangelical women for seeking therapy. “In my role as a women’s ministry director over the past 15 years, I’ve observed an increase in church women struggling with emotional and […]
Minneapolis clergy rally for justice after ICE shooting
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on January 8, 2025. It was a time set aside for mourning, remembrance and moral clarity as hundreds of pastors gathered in Minneapolis Jan. 8 for a clergy press conference one day after an ICE agent shot and killed a woman protesting their actions. “It is a day where Minnesotans […]
Of course, evangelicals are complaining about Stranger Things
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on January 5 2025. “Being gay is not a superpower,” one person wrote on social media. Immediately, my heart sank. Although I was still catching up on Stranger Things episodes, my gut told me we were on the precipice of yet another conservative panic attack over the existence of gay […]
When what’s ‘good for Christianity’ isn’t good for your neighbor
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on December 30, 2025. One of the most impactful storylines of 2025 was the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk on Sept. 10 and the subsequent response on the Right. As you’ll probably notice this week, a number of BNG’s most-read articles of the year were […]
‘When the wicked are in power …’
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on December 23, 2025. “Advent is the season that, when properly understood, does not flinch from the darkness that stalks us all in this world,” Fleming Rutledge says in Advent: The Once and Future Coming of Jesus Christ. In these final days of Advent, we are indeed living in […]
Hegseth plans ‘cultural shift’ for military chaplains
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on December 18, 2025. “I’m here to tell you about a real problem facing our nation’s military,” Secretary of War Pete Hegseth began in a video with a Christmas tree and a Department of War flag behind him. “It’s one you’re probably not aware of. But it’s a […]
Heads spin as Kirk Cameron gives up eternal conscious torment
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on December 11, 2025. “It’s one of the doctrines of the Bible that atheists love to point out as one of the reasons why they could never believe in the God of the Bible,” Kirk Cameron said on his podcast last week. “It’s the God who creates the eternal barbecue […]
Now AI Trump reads Bible stories for children
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on December 9, 2025. ’Tis the season when Christians flock to theaters or streaming services to watch the latest children’s cartoon movie about the birth of Jesus. But in the world of Christian nationalists, 2025 has been the year of utilizing AI. After Charlie Kirk was murdered, white […]
These ‘regular people’ promote a dangerous view of marriage and gender
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on December 4, 2025. “I’m just a regular guy,” Speaker of the House Mike Johnson told Katie Miller with his wife, Kelly, sitting next to him for the Katie Miller Podcast. “We’re simple people,” Johnson later added as the couple discussed everything from how Mike doesn’t like mayonnaise, […]