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(RNS) — Readers: I continue my service as pastor of First Baptist Church of Decatur, a predominantly white Baptist congregation outside Atlanta. When I took the pulpit yesterday, this is the statement that I offered about what happened in Charlottesville this weekend and what it means. I am happy to report that the congregational response […]

I have watched the first six months of the Trump Presidency mainly in stunned silence. In this column, what I will do is quote some of what I said about Donald Trump my Religion News Service columns during the presidential campaign. The reason for doing so should be obvious. We knew what we were doing, and we […]

“If Europe does not cooperate with Israel, it is punishing itself.” – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban In the political world, ‘hot mic’ moments are nothing new. Remember back to March 2012 when in Seoul, South Korea, Barack HUSSEIN Obama got caught in such a ‘hot mic’ moment when he told the outgoing Russian President Dmitry […]

Often in our divided world we disagree with someone about a principle. Person A says that what matters is reproductive freedom and B says that what matters is protecting the unborn. Person C says that what matters is protecting American security and D says that what matters is hospitality to refugees from tortured lands. Principles […]

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio Fact: in today’s America we have a muslim problem no matter what the left says. And while some muslims do try to at least attempt to fit into the fabric of our American society, a very vocal and ever expanding […]

(RNS) — Eugene Peterson discovered painfully that the evangelical establishment will immediately seek to destroy anyone who breaks with their understanding of orthodoxy on LGBTQ issues. Nothing he did before mattered. Nothing else he believes mattered. The guns were turned on him, posthaste, in a choreography of rejection as public and painful as possible. This […]

“Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance…”– Barack HUSSEIN Obama’s 2009 words when giving his first selling out of America speech in Cairo, Egypt, repeated again when Imam Khalid Latif and muslima Linda Sarsour welcomed him to their mosque Tolerance…a word that in today’s world seems to come in degrees for what one group of […]

Mentally ill and homeless people wander into the church that I pastor on Sunday mornings, and I don’t know the best way to handle it. There, I said it. I am going to be gut-honest in this little reflection and will totally admit my own uncertainty and discomfort. This will risk incurring the wrath of […]

My question is this: “Is there New Testament evidence we should we be speaking more about truth, and less about “believing” or “beliefs”, when we speak to non-believers?” I found all these citations where the apostles said they spoke truth, or implied they spoke it, and then they remarked about creating or not creating belief.  […]

Much of my recent career has been spent analyzing and resisting right-wing politics, often mixed with religion. But today I say that there is plenty to worry about on the left, too. There is left-wing politics and religion (or anti-religion), that also should be alarming to thoughtful people. Here are a few of the most recent examples: […]