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Supreme Court clears way for third-country deportations – Baptist News Global

3 days ago | baptistnews.com | Jeff Brumley

The Trump administration may deport undocumented immigrants to countries other than their own, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled June 23. The unsigned order reverses a lower court ruling granting unauthorized noncitizens an opportunity to demonstrate the risk of persecution, torture or even death in the event of “third country removal” by the U.S.“Fire up the deportation planes,” responded Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Homeland Security.
Abbott signs Texas Ten Commandments bill, setting up court fight – Baptist News Global

3 days ago | baptistnews.com | Jeff Brumley

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has signed legislation mandating Ten Commandments displays in public school classrooms beginning Sept. 1 despite the threat of litigation from civil liberties groups.
Trump supporters are weary with his 'disappearing' immigrants

5 days ago | baptistnews.com | Jeff Brumley

Americans who originally backed President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign are having a change of heart due to protests, military involvement and the targeting of immigrants without criminal histories, migrant advocates and new polling suggest. “It seems the deportation operations that set off the protests could alienate many Americans — as could Trump’s latest move to apparently involve troops in Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations,” CNN’s Aaron Blake observed.
Appeals court stops Louisiana Ten Commandments law – Baptist News Global

5 days ago | baptistnews.com | Jeff Brumley

A Louisiana law requiring Ten Commandments displays in public school classrooms was ruled unconstitutional by a unanimous federal appeals court June 20. “Parents and students challenge a statute requiring public schools to permanently display the Ten Commandments in every classroom in Louisiana. The district court found the statute facially unconstitutional and preliminarily enjoined its enforcement,” the three-judge panel of the U.S. Fifth District Court of Appeals proclaimed in Roake v. Brumley.
A Christian appreciation for The Grateful Dead – Baptist News Global

6 days ago | baptistnews.com | Tyler Hummel

The words “Deadhead” and “Christian” aren’t often spoken in the same sentence, if only because the former doesn’t seem to have much to do with the latter. But upon deeper inspection, there may be more overlap than one might think. The eclectic 1960s rock band The Grateful Dead, has no shortage of spiritual ideas that have turned its “Deadhead” followers into a traveling movement, bonded by shared ideals and a strong community.
The Upper Room turns 90 – Baptist News Global

1 week ago | baptistnews.com | Maina Mwaura

The Upper Room, a popular daily devotional guide, celebrates its 90th anniversary this year. Although the printed devotional dates to 1935, the idea goes back to 1929, when Francis Craig sought to encourage people in their daily walk after the great stock market failure. Francis was a Sunday School teacher at Travis Park Methodist Episcopal Church in San Antonio, Texas. She urged her pastor, Paul Kern, to write a collection of devotionals.
Ruling on transgender care called partisan and flawed

1 week ago | baptistnews.com | Jeff Brumley

The U.S. Supreme Court abandoned science, fairness and common sense in its June 18 decision upholding a state’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth, civil rights and legal experts said. The 6-3 ruling in U.S. v. Skrmetti found Tennessee’s 2023 measure does not violate the Fourteenth Amendment guarantee of equal protection in denying medical treatment to a certain group of people — in this case those with gender dysphoria.
Evangelicals are mean to kids, beginning at home – Baptist News Global

1 week ago | baptistnews.com | Rick Pidcock

Every Father’s Day weekend, complementarian women post on social media about how thankful they are for their husbands’ loving leadership. Photos of confidently smiling men who think the gospel requires them to be the heads of their households grace our newsfeeds. While many of these men may be generally kind and while their wives likely mean what they’re saying, their theology of male headship makes one thing clear: These people think their patriarchs are the protectors of society.
Republican budget would tax remittances to families abroad – Baptist News Global

1 week ago | baptistnews.com | Jeff Brumley

Foreign nationals working in the U.S. will have to pay a 5% excise tax on money they send family in other countries if Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill” becomes law. Known as remittance transfers, the transactions are a crucial way immigrants and other non-American citizens working legally in the U.S. help their families and, in turn, the economies in their home nations.
Most books banned from Naval Academy are back on shelves – Baptist News Global

1 week ago | baptistnews.com | Jeff Brumley

Nearly all the 381 books pulled from the U.S. Naval Academy Library in April are back on the shelves after the Pentagon instituted its own criteria for banning books. “I am thrilled to report that, as a result of the public pressure, most of the banned books have recently been returned to the shelves at the Naval Academy,” said Robert P. Jones whose book, White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity, was one of the titles initially banned and now returned to circulation.