by Craig Nash | Apr 26, 2026 | News
John Fugelsang loves “Chicago Pope.” “When I first heard the new pope was an American from Chicago, as someone raised Catholic, I was wary,” Fugelsang told a crowd gathered Sunday for the Summit for Religious Freedom (SRF), sponsored by Americans United for Separation...
by Mitch Randall | Apr 24, 2026 | Opinion
Editor’s Note: The following is adapted from remarks made by Mitch Randall to the Mainstream Coalition in Kansas City, Kansas, on April 19, 2026. The Mainstream Coalition defends the constitutional promise of religious freedom for all by standing firmly for the...
by Ryan McCord | Apr 23, 2026 | Opinion
Pastor Cortes Vasquez, a minister in New Jersey, was detained by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Newark, New Jersey, seven days before Holy Week, the most sacred time in the Christian calendar. His case was one of thousands of...
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 Daniel Bailey | Feb 9, 2026 | Opinion
As a lifelong Baptist, I have watched with growing frustration as the church I have loved all my life has been systematically dismantled by people who have cozied up to authoritarianism. Through their words and actions, its members have blatantly mocked one of the...
