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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
When Romans 1 is your answer to every challenge
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on May 7, 2025. Almost every political conversation with white evangelicals today eventually comes down to their fear of saying anything positive about LGBTQ people. If you have empathy, they’ll warn it’s a slippery slope toward affirming LGBTQ people. If you suggest women can preach, they’ll accuse you […]
So Paula White’s a complementarian? Really?
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on April 30, 2025. While many express concern about Paula White’s leadership in the White House Faith Office due to her adherence to the prosperity gospel and her bizarre, tongue-speaking prophecies for Donald Trump, one of the surprising developments of this past week was video of her embracing […]
Trump, Harvard and Bob Jones University: The resurrection of racism
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on April 21, 2025. Donald Trump’s threat to revoke the tax-exempt status of Harvard University may be novel, but it is not new. It is, in fact, a resurrection of a previous kind of discrimination. There’s one other time in American history when a private university lost its […]
Feeling overwhelmed? Think local, Tyler advises
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on February 18, 2025. It can be overwhelming to consider that there won’t be a presidential election for nearly four years, or even the possibility of winning either the House or Senate away from the control of Christian nationalists for another two years. One recent CNN headline said, “Democrats confront […]
Dispirited Christians must prepare to stand in the gap, historians urge
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on November 20, 2024. “We’re obviously in a very different space than we were in the last two times we had this conversation,” Robert P. Jones said to open the third “Faith and Democracy” tour event with historians Diana Butler Bass, Jemar Tisby and Kristin Du Mez. The […]