A bill pending in the Illinois senate that would require pastors to take state-regulated classes in child protection raises important questions: Shouldn’t pastors do all they can to protect children? That’s how one colleague phrased it. Yes, obviously, but at what risk to religious communities’ First Amendment rights? And, as important is this question: Why […]
Reporter’s Notebook
Free speech for churches
“The old adage says there are three things you should never talk about in polite company—money, religion, and politics. We already break two of those three rules every Sunday in church. Are we ready to break the third—politics?
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How will we treat the messenger?
Russell Moore has the hardest job in the Southern Baptist Convention…when someone dares to speak for all of us, and says something we might disagree with, we bristle. Some are bristling over Moore’s anti-Trump stance during the election. Read…
Linda Darden: Finding grace in the gridlock
His attitude toward Chicago was that it was THAT place, but God used this time to show him the faces of people in THAT place, and now he has a desire to bring what he has learned back to little old Waverly New Life. Read…
My visit to Philly: Let hope ring
We’re tired of listening, tired of arguing, tired of walking to an end that will inevitably leave at least half the nation unsatisfied, and maybe angry. But in Philadelphia on a bright October morning, my husband, Chris, and I found hopeful people. Perhaps it’s the reminder that the people who gathered at Independence Hall 240 years earlier to sign first the Declaration of Independence and, later, the U.S. Constitution, fought for something larger than themselves—a truly free society, a democracy that embraced good for all while also committing itself to invaluable individual liberties. Read…
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