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Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at the National Religious Broadcasters convention at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at the National Religious Broadcasters convention at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George […]

In 2018, I was a mom and teaching pastor newly relocated to Oklahoma. That’s when I heard of Julius Jones, who was then on death row following a 2002 conviction for murder.I stumbled upon his story one night while watching The Last Defense, an ABC docuseries about people facing execution with strong innocence claims. To say I was devastated by the issues in his case can’t capture how much his […]

Cleanliness is next to godliness. Forgive and forget. Growing up in my conservative, mostly evangelical, rural Texas town, I went looking for accepted truisms in the Bible—only to discover they’d never been there at all. Gradually, I came to realize life could be more complicated than those sayings allowed, and yet I’m still surprised every now and again when I find myself clinging to some pithy proverb with the spiritual […]

Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission. A century ago the Catholic intellectual Hilaire Belloc wrote, “Europe is the faith.”Today conservative Christians, Catholic and Protestant, increasingly say, “Africa is the faith” — because the demographic future, and the strongest commitment to traditional teachings, is there.At a time when the American right is strongly opposed to immigration and globalization and the left casually portrays conservatives as racists, many Christians who […]

Indonesia’s Catholic community learned last year that thousands of dollars donated by a public official were proceeds from a multimillion-dollar telecom bribery case.Johnny Gerard Plate, a cabinet minister before he was sentenced to a 15-year prison term, had a history of donating to his religious community in Indonesia’s Christian-majority East Nusa Tenggara province.The court’s decision stated that a portion of these graft funds had been allocated to church institutions, including […]

Religious reeducation did not work on Esmaeil Narimanpour.First arrested by the Iranian government in 2021, he and seven other converts to Christianity were cleared by the state prosecutor, who stated that their change of religion was not a crime under Iranian law. The following year, he was ordered with several others to attend ten sessions with Muslim clerics to “guide” him back to Islam.Last December, Narimanpour was arrested again, this […]

Former President Donald Trump called on Christians to support his presidential bid, pledging if elected to "protect God in the public square," defend Christian broadcasters and their "pro-God" content from censorship, and appoint a task force to fight anti-Christian bias, including federal prosecutions.Trump spoke to an enthusiastic crowd of about 1,500 Thursday evening at a presidential forum at the annual conference of the National Religious Broadcasters at the Gaylord Opryland […]

It seems to me that many of us read the parable of the Good Samaritan with an unstated understanding that its basic message is “For crying out loud, just don’t be a jerk.”The Sunday school storyboard unfolds in our mind’s eye. A poor, innocent guy has been brutally beaten, and any reasonably moral person would be horrified. The priest and the Levite see him and pass by on the other […]

This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter. Subscribe here.Russian president Vladimir Putin murdered another Christian this week. It was just another day in Putin’s supposed project of protecting “the Christian West” from godlessness. After all, they tell me, one can’t create a Christian nationalist empire without killing some people.Before the world forgets the corpse of Alexei Navalny in the subzero environs of an Arctic penal colony, we ought to […]