by Scott Stearman | Mar 24, 2021 | Opinion
In the summer of 1988, I was the subject of great racial curiosity. I was in the middle of the most land locked city on earth. The capital of Xinjiang, Urumqi, holds a population of over one million people. My impression then was that none of those one million people...
by Scott Stearman | Dec 10, 2020 | Opinion
Nike, Coca-Cola and Apple are among the major companies lobbying Congress to weaken a bill. This is hardly news, but what makes it surprising is that this bill would ban imported goods made with forced labor in China’s Xinjiang region, according to a Nov. 29 report in...
by Scott Stearman | Aug 20, 2020 | Opinion
As a lifelong Baptist, I’ve been rightly appreciative of our tradition of promoting religious liberty. In my youth, at a conservative Southern Baptist Church in central Oklahoma, I was taught all people should be free to worship as they choose. It was acknowledged...
by Scott Stearman | Jun 19, 2020 | Faith Freedom 2020, Opinion
Some good news came out of Washington, D.C., in early June. We can all be forgiven for missing it in light of the global pandemic and amid the intense social unrest that followed the murder of George Floyd. And I hope you’re sitting down because this good news came...
by Scott Stearman | Jul 26, 2019 | Opinion
We talk a lot today about religious freedom. Sometimes, the conversation devolves into the discussion of being forced to provide appropriate accommodations in the public space (like a business baking a “gay” wedding cake). Sometimes, it’s about religious displays on...
