Jeff Brumley

Jacksonville

Assistant Editor at Baptist News Global

Grateful product of Van Nuys and Nashville. Love my Staffy, Dodgers and Vols. Orthodox Christian.

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Articles

Some Baptist leaders hopeful about Pope Leo XIV – Baptist News Global

6 days ago | baptistnews.com | Mark Wingfield |Jeff Brumley

“I did not think this would happen in my lifetime,” Baptist scholar Elizabeth Newman said of the election of an American as pope. Newman, a theologian and ethicist who serves as co-chair of the Baptist-Catholic dialogues convened by Baptist World Alliance and the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, said she was “very surprised that a pope from the United States was elected.”She expected a new pope to be from Italy or the Global South.
AU calls out 'Christian boy band' for proselytizing in NC schools

1 week ago | baptistnews.com | Jeff Brumley

A North Carolina public school system required students to attend a religious assembly that included a performance by the Christian boy band 3 Heath Brothers, according to Americans United for Separation of Church and State. The March 11 school-day event in Lexington, N.C., also included the distribution of a 104-page Bible study and children’s devotional, the nonprofit legal advocacy organization observed in a letter to Davidson County Schools officials.
Ferguson student organizer offers tips for a new generation

1 week ago | baptistnews.com | Jeff Brumley

College students involved in pro-Palestinian demonstrations must make time for academics and self-care amid the turmoil and remember protest is a marathon, not a sprint, said the author of a forthcoming book on lessons learned during the 2014 Ferguson, Mo., uprising. Jonathan Pulphus said one of his goals in With My People: Life, Justice, and Activism Beyond the University was to offer guidance to young activists on finding a balance between activism and everyday life.
Latino voters believe country is heading in wrong direction

1 week ago | baptistnews.com | Jeff Brumley

Even though more Hispanic voters swung for Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election than in either of his previous runs for office, his immigration policies remain largely unfavorable among U.S. Hispanics. “The latest poll underscores a harsh reality: Nearly two-thirds of Latino voters believe the country is heading in the wrong direction, with 70% of them holding President Trump responsible,” said Juan Proaño, CEO of the League of United Latin American Citizens.
Baylor international students safe for now – Baptist News Global

1 week ago | baptistnews.com | Jeff Brumley

The federal government temporarily reinstated the visas of three international Baylor University students just weeks after revoking them as part of President Donald Trump’s massive immigration crackdown, the Baylor Lariat reported.
House Committee wants to impose fees on immigrant children

1 week ago | baptistnews.com | Jeff Brumley

A congressional committee is contemplating steps to end legal assistance and trafficking protections for unaccompanied immigrant children and enacting oppressive regulations such as charging families $8,500 for the release of a youth from U.S. custody, child advocates warned during an recent webinar. “All the implications of the House Judiciary (Committee) reconciliation text for unaccompanied children are, in a word, catastrophic.
Dividing lines at Conclave may be different than you expect

1 week ago | baptistnews.com | Jeff Brumley

The process of choosing a successor for the late Pope Francis will certainly include maneuvering by conservative and progressive elements in the Catholic Church, but with little if any of the zero-sum scheming common among bitterly divided U.S. denominations, Vatican observers say. Francis’ April 21 death at age 88 initiates a process used since the 13th century to elect popes, namely a sequestered gathering of the College of Cardinals known as a Conclave, which will begin May 7.
Supreme Court appears inclined to establish Free Exercise Clause – Baptist News Global

2 weeks ago | baptistnews.com | Jeff Brumley

The U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority seemed open April 30 to permitting the use of taxpayer dollars to fund the nation’s first religious public charter school. Their reasoning during oral arguments about the case of St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School in Oklahoma “was most profoundly disturbing,” said Rachel Laser, president of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, after attending the session.
Clergy oppose Missouri Legislature rewriting Ten Commandments

2 weeks ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Jeff Brumley

Share A Missouri Senate committee approved legislation to place the Ten Commandments in public-school classrooms, but not before rewriting the Scriptures to conform with conservative political ideology, said Brian Kaylor, a Baptist minister and leader of a clergy coalition opposed to the measure.
Clergy oppose Missouri Legislature rewriting Ten Commandments – Baptist News Global

2 weeks ago | baptistnews.com | Jeff Brumley

A Missouri Senate committee approved legislation to place the Ten Commandments in public-school classrooms, but not before rewriting the Scriptures to conform with conservative political ideology, said Brian Kaylor, a Baptist minister and leader of a clergy coalition opposed to the measure.