A recent Lifeway survey of Protestant pastors shows that armed congregants protect more than 50% of protestant churches. While these security arrangements vary in their level of sophistication on a church-by-church basis, nearly the same number of pastors who report the use of armed congregants report that there is an intentional plan
Every couple of years, conservative Christians celebrate the rise of a new wave of conservative Christian politicians into the ranks of state and federal politics. In 2023, conservative Southern Baptists, in particular, celebrated the election of Dusty Deevers to the Oklahoma State Senate and the rise of Representative Mike Johnson
Children in the public school systems of the United States have been given the responsibility of understanding topics that 30 years ago would have been unspeakable in a public setting. Children as young as preschool age now receive queer theory indoctrination. Elementary students are taught to use LGBTQ pronouns and
A recent petition by the Satanic Temple of Iowa, under the guidelines of the Iowa legislature, allowed Satanists to place an idol of Baphomet, a winged, goat-headed, trans-human figure, on display in the vicinity of nativity displays on the first floor of the Iowa Capital. The display drew the ire
Former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton are the only two Southern Baptists to serve as President of the United States. Clinton became a member of a Methodist Church, along with his wife, upon taking office in 1993. However, Jimmy Carter remained a Baptist after marrying Rosalynn, a Methodist. Carter
In recent years, James Merritt, former Southern Baptist Convention President and current pastor of Crosse Pointe Church in Duluth, GA, has personally involved himself in several efforts to advance leftist causes in the SBC. At the 2021 convention, Merritt used his position on the resolutions committee to promote resolutions that allowed
November ought to be considered a religious holiday for prickly pastrixes, empathetic feminists and effeminate Big-Eva types- a hallowed season where the pronouns-in-bio muckrakers of “concerned” Julie Roys-aligned “discernment ministries” work together with the sole intent of smashing the patriarchy in Moscow, Idaho and “examining” the so-called evils of Pastor
SBC President Bart Barber was recently caught meddling in an out-of-state election with the specific intent of kneecapping the electoral chances of abolitionist SBC Pastor and Oklahoma State Senate candidate Dusty Deevers. Barber’s rhetoric against Deevers is being actively used by Larry Bush, the Democrat candidate running against Deevers, to portray Deevers
SBC President Bart Barber regularly skirmishes with abortion abolitionists, misrepresenting the views of abolitionists and carrying water for elements of the incrementalist pro-life movement that would see abortion continue into perpetuity under strict regulation. Over the past year, Barber has vocally opposed the abolitionist efforts of Pastor Dusty Deevers, who is running
If a poll asked young conservative Christian men to identify a culturally significant figure that they admire, Daily Wire co-founder Ben Shapiro would undoubtedly be near the top of the list. With Shapiro as its figurehead in the last eight years, the Daily Wire has grown from a small, relatively
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