by Brian Kaylor | Jun 13, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
Editor’s Note: This analysis first ran in Word&Way’s Substack newsletter A Public Witness. This Friday (June 14) is Flag Day. Brian will be appearing in a free webinar hosted by Faithful America to discuss Baptizing America: How Mainline Protestants Helped...
by Brian Kaylor | May 5, 2021 | Opinion
The alliance between white evangelicals and Donald Trump hurt the witness of Christians in our country and around the world. While many commentators have noted this over the past few years, one area not often discussed comes with the treatment of the press. The former...
by Brian Kaylor | Jul 17, 2020 | Opinion
Last August, I stood in the pulpit of the church I attend and announced that four of the congregation’s first seven pastors were slaveholders. Audible gasps filled the air. And that’s when I realized just how much we needed an honest airing of our past. In a July 13...
by Brian Kaylor | Jul 31, 2019 | Christian Nationalism, Opinion
During one of multiple trips to the Missouri Capitol earlier this year, I listened in the car as NPR did a piece about the Tom Petty song, “I Won’t Back Down.” The story included them playing the song several times as they not only played Petty’s version but also some...
by Brian Kaylor | Jul 17, 2019 | News
Jamaican Baptist leaders raised the topic of reparations for slavery in multiple sessions of the annual gathering of the Baptist World Alliance last week in Nassau, the Bahamas. Devon Dick, a Jamaican Baptist pastor, gave a presentation on the biblical case for...