by Rebecca M. David Hensley | Jun 12, 2026 | Opinion
I was sitting in the airport last week when I came across the Good Faith Media article about the billboard near the locationof the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) Annual Meeting. The billboard reads, “God calls women to pastor, preach, and minister,” and cites...
by Rebecca M. David Hensley | May 5, 2026 | Opinion
As a teenage girl, I learned to walk through this world with a healthy sense of awareness of my surroundings: Don’t walk into a dark parking lot by yourself. Call Dad if you have car trouble at night—don’t attempt to change a flat on your own after dark. Don’t wear a...
by Rebecca M. David Hensley | Mar 4, 2026 | Opinion
United Methodists (UMC) have taken a stand for justice in many ways throughout the church’s history, from opposing slavery to supporting the labor and Civil Rights movements, as well as the 1980s sanctuary movement for Central American refugees. Methodists have also...
by Rebecca M. David Hensley | Jan 14, 2026 | Opinion
As we are all now painfully and polaristically aware, Renee Nicole Good, a thirty-seven-year-old mother of three who had dropped her six-year-old off at school last Wednesday morning, was shot three times point-blank in a residential neighborhood by ICE officer...
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...
