The church bodies of conservative Protestantism are seeing the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7 for the unspeakable and indefensible outrage that it is and are justifying Israel’s militant response as a legitimate application of “just war” doctrine. To…
Rev. Dr. Rebecca Todd Peters, an ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church-USA (PC-USA), recently treated a Unitarian Universalist congregation to a fiery sermon. Was it about heaven, hell, salvation, and the need to repent and believe the Gospel — messages…
It is no secret that American colleges and universities are increasingly becoming Orwellian dystopias. Those who dissent from the prevailing orthodoxies often survive by keeping their mouths shut and their heads down. Concerns about the transformation of much of higher…
The holy month of Pride, as it has been called, gave us plenty of lowlights during its 30-day run of infamy. There were the Bud Light, Target, and Kohl’s fiascoes, on the secular side, not to mention the Pride flag…
When my Dad met my Mom for the first time, he threw her straight into a lake without a single word. Debbie Bailey came up sputtering mad. “You jerk!” she called him, among other things. That is not what one…
Jesus’ “transgressive move from death to life” in his resurrection “def[ied] expectations and social norms” and “stoke[d] the flames” of a new “possibility”: You, too, can be transgender. At least, that’s according to Eric Busby and Brendan Nee, students at…
I watched King Charles’s coronation on Saturday as avidly as I watched his mother’s obsequies last September. And I was as dazzled with the second ceremony as with the first. Not because I’m a royalist or anything, but because I…
Recently, a dozen archbishops from the Global South Fellowship of Anglican Churches signed a letter rejecting the traditional notion that the Archbishop of Canterbury is the “first among equals” and the “focus of unity” in the Global Anglican Communion. They’d…
While most of mainline Protestantism — whether Lutheran, Episcopal, Presbyterian, or United Church of Christ — has declared victory in the gay-marriage wars and moved on to bigger, juicier heresies, like installing transgender bishops and assigning new, preferred pronouns to…
People from across the country have gathered at Asbury University to join students who have been praying, singing, and worshiping the Lord for hundreds of hours straight. The small Christian college is located in Wilmore, Kentucky, which is just outside…