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A federal judge has ruled against Fellowship Southwest, the Hispanic Baptist Convention of Texas and more than two dozen other plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging the legality of immigration raids in churches and other sensitive locations.

Oct 28, 2024 · Note: This story was updated Oct. 29 with additional comments from church leaders. One of the most prominent Baptist churches in Texas quietly quit the Southern Baptist Convention Oct. 27 — part of an unnoticed trend that’s hard to document on a national level.. While updating its bylaws, Park Cities Baptist Church in Dallas removed reference to …

Two weeks after he preached a sermon calling for action to oppose the worst impulses of the incoming Trump administration, a North Carolina pastor was forced out of his prominent pulpit.. Ben Boswell, who had been senior minister at Myers Park Baptist Church in Charlotte nine years, technically resigned but a church leader acknowledged that resignation was forced by a hastily called vote of ...

Nov 7, 2024 · Southern Baptist leaders and many other evangelical leaders expressed jubilation at Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential race, while one podcaster said it’s time to revise the exhibits at the Smithsonian to reflect a different worldview.. Josh Daws, a Southern Baptist who hosts “The Great Awokening” podcast from his home in Georgia — where he and his wife homeschool their four ...

Feb 5, 2025 · This article was updated Feb. 6 to include comments from the Keep God’s Land coalition. Christian leaders were noticeably silent Tuesday as President Donald Trump shocked the world by proposing the United States “take over” Gaza and expel all Palestinians living there.. Baptist News Global searched for any national religious leader commenting on the president’s suggestion and found few ...

Mar 19, 2025 · Spiritual abuse while protecting a theological and institutional hierarchy is a common story in conservative evangelicalism today. But on Sunday night, the script appeared to flip when news broke that Godly Response to Abuse in the Christian Environment had been investigating Tim Whitaker and his organization, The New Evangelicals, who are some of the most popular names in progressive ...

Nov 8, 2024 · Donald Trump’s return to the White House is “the absolute worst case scenario,” according to religion scholar Matthew Taylor. “We’re in an epochal shift in American history of the worst sort, and while it does not spell the absolute end of American liberal democracy, MAGA is a fatal illness,” Taylor wrote on X after the Tuesday election. ...

Feb 4, 2025 · The bill asking the U.S. House of Representatives to censure Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde for her sermon at Washington National Cathedral Jan. 21 has been referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.. That powerful committee is chaired by Rep. James Comer, a conservative Republican and a Southern Baptist from Kentucky.

We were out visiting for the church, the Deacon and I, two Baptists prepared to “win the lost for Christ” on a steamy summer Sunday afternoon in Fort Worth. The Deacon was a committed soul winner, and I was a high school student, filled to the brim with evangelical zeal and adolescent testosterone, both of which can kill you.