3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1559+ words) AnalysisMark Wingfield | 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…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago   (39+ words) The murals begin before one can even step inside. At Mercado Central on East Lake Street in South Minneapolis, the walls pulse with color: painted Virgen de Guadalupe portraits, Aztec imagery, bright lettering, and scenes from Mexican history and everyday…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (130+ words) You can take the Port Washington branch of the Long Island Rail Road, or you can drive out on the Long Island Expressway to Exit 33. And you can work hard, be successful and want a great community for your family…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (330+ words) NewsMark Wingfield | April 21, 2026 A Baptist journalist is responsible for identifying Pete Hegseth’s prayer as cribbed from Pulp Fiction, and his attention to detail has gone around the world. It was Brian Kaylor, editor of Word&Way, who broke the news…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (841+ words) NewsMark Wingfield | April 20, 2026 Because “covered wounds don’t heal,” American Christians must continue to expose the truth of their harmful past, Michael Woolf told the Alliance of Baptists annual gathering. That message was echoed in a second address by Kelly Brown…...

4+ mon, 4+ week ago   (577+ words) OpinionDavid Gushee, Senior Columnist | April 14, 2026 The recent entirely predictable online attack by Donald Trump on Pope Leo XIV has made an argument over values into a personal dispute. But the issue between the two men is not a personal dispute....

5+ mon, 6+ day ago   (834+ words) NewsJeff Brumley | April 7, 2026 Conservative Christians must impose their will and interpretation of Scripture on all other Americans, a Southern Baptist and former Trump administration official said. “We should not blink, we should not hesitate to tell people” God’s order for…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1689+ words) OpinionJosh Bledsoe | March 24, 2026 The faith experiences of many Queer Christians have unfolded in churches that once described themselves as “welcoming,” “inclusive” or “loving” yet stopped short of full affirmation. Some of those congregations have since changed. They now perform same-gender…...

6+ mon, 29+ min ago   (613+ words) OpinionBill Leonard, Senior Columnist | March 12, 2026 In the concluding chapter of American Mainline Christianity: Its Changing Shape and Future, Wade Clark Roof and William McKinney predicted this: The churches of the Protestant establishment, long in a state of relative decline, will…...