by Craig Nash | Mar 19, 2026 | Opinion
Institutions, like the humans who make them up, contain multitudes. They are never just one thing. This maxim was on full display last weekend at Baylor University, one of the nation’s most prominent evangelical research institutions. Since at least the early 1990s,...
by Craig Nash | Dec 31, 2025 | Opinion
Early this year, we asked our team of writers which stories they were keeping an eye on as 2025 unfolded. Understandably, with the presidential inauguration just around the corner, Trump 2.0 was on the top of everyone’s mind. As a faith-informed media organization...
by Colin Harris | Oct 15, 2025 | Opinion
The tragic assassination of popular conservative Charlie Kirk has prompted reflection on the oxymoron of “Christian nationalism.” Many voices have celebrated the public repetition of Jesus’ name as a kind of “revival of faith,” something they believe has been missing...
by Michael Chancellor | Oct 9, 2025 | Opinion
In 2022, Charlie Kirk, the CEO and co-founder of Turning Point USA, declared, “I can’t stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new-age term that…does a lot of damage.” I wasn’t aware of this quote until after Kirk’s assassination. The...
by Kali Cawthon-Freels | Oct 7, 2025 | Opinion
It’s been almost a month since the assassination of Charlie Kirk, leader of the far-right group Turning Point USA. Since then, American society has been in turmoil—not because people are grieving his loss, but because his death widened the ever-deepening rift in our...
