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Court hears case of parents wanting to opt out of story time

2 days ago | baptistnews.com | Mark Wingfield

Should evangelical parents be allowed to opt-out their children’s participation in public school lessons they find objectionable, and how far should those objections be allowed to go? These are some of the key questions debated at the U.S. Supreme Court April 22 in the case Mahmoud v. Taylor, which pits parental rights against approved curriculum in a large Maryland public school district.
Indiana is latest state legislature asked to endorse Christianity – Baptist News Global

2 days ago | baptistnews.com | Mark Wingfield

A bill in the Indiana House of Representatives calls on state government to acknowledge “the need for divine providence” and “submit its ways to the Lord Jesus Christ.”House Resolution 53 also declares the Indiana House of Representatives “is unified in its steadfast commitment to individually and corporately returning to God and upholding the biblical principles set forth in the word of God.”Republicans control the Indiana House with 70 seats, compared to 30 for Democrats.
Trump’s attack on Harvard is Christian universities’ 'worst nightmare’ – Baptist News Global

2 days ago | baptistnews.com | Mark Wingfield

The Trump administration’s attacks on Harvard are Christian universities’ “worst nightmare,” according to retired Christian university sociology professor John Hawthorne. What Trump and his allies are doing in demanding radical changes from Harvard could establish a precedent that could be used on other institutions, according to the former chair of the department of sociology, global studies and criminal justice at Spring Arbor University.
Burge documents Trump's gains with non-white evangelicals – Baptist News Global

2 days ago | baptistnews.com | Mark Wingfield

Donald Trump’s gains with non-white evangelical voters is one of several explanations Ryan Burge offers for what happened in the 2024 presidential election. The story of white evangelical support for Trump has been documented time and again, but what made a difference in 2024 is growing support among non-white evangelicals, says Burge, a professor at Eastern Illinois University and one of the foremost interpreters of religious trends in America today.
Trump blasts his enemies in Easter morning message

3 days ago | baptistnews.com | Mark Wingfield

President Donald Trump — hailed by his supporters for “bringing faith back to the White House” — spent Easter Sunday on the golf course and blasting his enemies on social media. “Happy Easter to all, including the Radical Left Lunatics who are fighting and scheming so hard to bring Murderers, Drug Lords, Dangerous Prisoners, the Mentally Insane, and well known MS-13 Gang Members and Wife Beaters, back into our Country,” began his message on Truth Social Sunday morning.
Trump, Harvard and Bob Jones University

3 days ago | baptistnews.com | Rick Pidcock

Donald Trump’s threat to revoke the tax-exempt status of Harvard University may be novel, but it is not new. It is, in fact, a resurrection of a previous kind of discrimination. There’s one other time in American history when a private university lost its tax-exempt status, and that’s the school where I earned an undergraduate degree — Bob Jones University.
Texas on the brink of finalizing a school voucher bill – Baptist News Global

1 week ago | baptistnews.com | Mark Wingfield

After years of opposition from rural Republicans and urban Democrats, the Texas Legislature passed a school voucher bill April 17. Texas now joins at least 15 other states with some form of taxpayer-funded vouchers for private education that critics say destabilize public education and favor evangelical Christian schools. Passing such a bill in Texas has been a top priority of Gov. Greg Abbott and of a few billionaire donors who fund him and the Texas Republican Party.
Censure of bishop stuck in committee but she explains more

1 week ago | baptistnews.com | Mark Wingfield

The Congressional attempt to censure Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde for her homily at the Washington National Cathedral appears to be going exactly nowhere. Three months after the service tied to Donald Trump’s inauguration as president, the proposed resolution remains stuck in a committee in the House of Representatives. There has been no public action on what would be an extremely rare legislative censure of a preacher.
Trump officials cite Harvard Divinity as one of university's 'schools of concern' – Baptist News Global

1 week ago | baptistnews.com | Mark Wingfield

Easily lost in the flurry of news about Harvard University refusing to bend the knee to the Trump administration is that Harvard Divinity School is one of the “programs, schools and centers of concern” cited by the administration as having “egregious records of antisemitism or other bias.”That should come as no surprise because the divinity school has been a favorite subject of criticism from political conservatives and evangelicals for decades. It is the quintessential “liberal” seminary.
Trump’s fight against international students hits home at Baylor – Baptist News Global

1 week ago | baptistnews.com | Mark Wingfield

The Trump administration’s unexplained revocation of international student visas hit Baylor University April 9. The Waco, Texas, school currently is among a select few faith-based private universities affected by the unannounced revocations of hundreds of study visas at 120 schools across the nation. Other faith-based universities known to be affected so far include Southern Methodist University, Duke University, Emory University, Gonzaga University and George Washington University.