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, […]
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, […]
Conservatives’ agenda for America is starting to read like my Bob Jones University student handbook
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on February 29, 2024. Perusing the news is beginning to feel like reading my Bob Jones University handbook a quarter century ago. Every page unveils another clutching of control that mortifies and confounds until the reader doesn’t know whether to laugh, cry or rage. This isn’t a new […]
Is it weird that Mike Johnson’s underage son is his porn accountability partner?
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on November 13, 2023. The latest theater of conservative evangelicalism’s multiple-front spiritual warfare cosplay is being dubbed the “War on Technology” by Cypress Baptist Church of Benton, La. It began as a gathering in October 2022 that promised to “help families win the technology battle in their homes.” […]