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06/18/2026

NEW PODCAST EPISODE: Juneteenth & White Supremacist Myth Making, with special guest Greg Garrett.

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06/18/2026

An average of 25 children age 3 or younger are in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody daily while no fewer than 500 infants and toddlers have been detained since President Donald Trump took office last year, according to a recent study.
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An average of 25 children age 3 or younger are in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody daily while no fewer than 500 infants and toddlers have been detained since President Donald Trump took office last year, according to a study by The Marshall Project and MS NOW. “Parents in ICE detention...

06/18/2026

OPINION: “I wonder whether we have confused being less conservative with being prophetic.”
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A few weeks ago, I sat with a Baptist leader who described himself as a "moderate Baptist." He meant it as a compliment, and most people in our circles would receive it that way. After all, "moderate" is one of the most celebrated words in Baptist life. Institutions have been built around it; confer...

06/18/2026

OPINION: “That act of faithfulness unlocked something in both of us.”
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Three years ago, I met Oliver Sakor at the baggage claim at the airport in Accra, Ghana. He was waiting there as he did most days, hoping travelers would trust him to carry their luggage for a little money. For Oliver, those tips weren't luxuries — they were survival. Each day was uncertain. Each ...

06/18/2026

"By exploring white racial mythologies, we will confront some of the worst impulses in American history, hundreds of years of attempts to enthrone white people at the expense of all others."
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Ten years ago, a priest at an inner-city Episcopal church in Delaware (Saints Andrew and Matthew in Wilmington) invited me to lead a Lenten retreat on race and film for his congregants. His parish, he told me, was made up of two congregations, a disappearing white church and a thriving Black church....

06/17/2026

“It doesn’t matter what you’ve done. It matters what you do after what you’ve done.”
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More than 30 years ago, when Terrence Minor was incarcerated, a young man began speaking to him about Jesus. Minor cannot recall the man's full name but does remember the influence he had. “Today, I couldn’t point to him in lineup,” Minor, said, “but he went by Mr. Walker.” Minor originall...

06/17/2026

Religious freedom is a radical invention that allows all Americans to believe or not believe as they choose, but on the condition that others are not harmed, said Rachel Laser, president of Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

Religious freedom is a radical invention that allows all Americans to believe or not believe as they choose, but on the condition that others are not harmed, said Rachel Laser, president of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. “That’s what religious freedom is. Here's what it’s...

06/17/2026

OPINION: "Eric Metaxas has a new book, Revolution: The Birth of the Greatest Nation in the History of the World. He is not a historian, and while there have been any number of good books written by non-historians, Revolution is not one of them."
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Eric Metaxas has a new book, Revolution: The Birth of the Greatest Nation in the History of the World. He is not a historian, and while there have been any number of good books written by non-historians, Revolution is not one of them. Metaxas has not written an American history but an evangelical pl...

06/17/2026

OPINION: “Christianity without transcendence degenerates into politics.”
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Coming to faith as a teenager in the 1970s, I inherited a more or less modern and impoverished Christian notion of heaven — heaven as the good place way out there somewhere that you hope to go to when you die. (Or whisked away to in the rapture, as the loopy eschatology of The Late...

06/17/2026

"Perhaps that is what Jesus was trying to teach all along: Y’all means all."
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I've often paused when reflecting on Jesus' enigmatic words in Matthew's Gospel: “While he was still speaking to the crowds, his mother and his brothers were standing outside, wanting to speak to him. Someone told him, ‘Look, your mother and your brothers are standing outside, wanting to speak t...