by Craig Nash | Apr 10, 2026 | Opinion
On Friday afternoon, the Baptist General Convention of Texas (Texas Baptists) issued a statement regarding “strong concerns” they are hearing from “members of the Texas Baptists family” about an event planned for April 22 at Baylor University. The event, titled...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Apr 10, 2026 | Opinion
The rise of the U.S empire was due to multiple factors, one of which was a “brain gain” of immigration. Both the U.S. immigration system and top research institutions have historically attracted the best of the best. Today, we stand at the threshold of a possible...
by Craig Nash | Apr 9, 2026 | Opinion
Fusing national and religious identities has often been problematic at best, and dangerous at worst. This is true whether the entanglement is official, such as in the Holy Roman Empire or the Islamic Republic of Iran, or more descriptive or aspirational, as in...
by Randall Balmer | Apr 9, 2026 | Opinion
It’s a good rule of thumb that if Tony Perkins lines up on one side of an issue, it’s better to be on the other side. This is not merely because of Perkins’s history of entanglements with the Ku Klux Klan and the Council of Conservative Citizens, also known as the...
by Jamie Marich | Apr 8, 2026 | Opinion
Every clinical organization I follow on social media issued a statement expressing its “disappointment” the day after the Supreme Court ruling that overturned Colorado’s ban on the unethical and clinically unfounded practice of “conversion therapy.” The court cited...
by Delaney Metcalf | Apr 8, 2026 | Opinion
Some people grow up emotionally held, mirrored and known. Then there are those like me who grew up too fast because we had to become adults long before we ever had the chance to be a child. Any type of neglect prevents growth. It creates gaps in emotional development,...
