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What would journalists and pundits do without Donald Trump? Indeed, one wonders how they ever got through our nation’s inexplicably long campaign season without him! While the Donald has inspired…

Years ago, I remember Christian right leaders fretting about pastors going to jail if they expressed their anti-gay views; when that didn’t come to pass, they fretted about churches losing their tax…

Update: On the social issues front, perhaps the most remarkable development of the debate didn’t happen last night, but today, when FoxNews apparently edited out Jeb Bush’s fumbling answer on whether…

Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” And he replied, “My name is Legion, because there are many of us inside this man” (Mark 5: 9) In the wake of the murders of nine African Americans at Emanuel AME…

The encyclical is finally here. Laudato si was officially released today and has already produced a tremendous amount of commentary online. And yet the political ramifications of the encyclical, at…

What I’d say if invited to the Southern Republican Leadership Conference.

Last week, Texas Republican Lamar Smith, chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal comparing climate change to religion. Smith argues…

The unique spectacle that is the presidential election season entered a whole new realm of fantasy last week with the dissemination of “A Different Kind of Republican Leader,” the official Rand Paul…

In an effort to promote freedom of religion, Republican State Rep. Todd Russ introduced House Bill 1125 in the Oklahoma House of Representatives which would amend certain of the state’s marriage laws…

Lifeway Research, which conducts surveys on evangelical attitudes on a variety of issues, released a new poll today, finding that a majority of evangelicals want to see Congress pass immigration…