WASHINGTON (AP) – House Speaker Mike Johnson, facing a choice between potentially losing his job and advancing aid for Ukraine, forged ahead Wednesday (April 16) toward a vote later this week on a package of funding that also includes Israel and Taiwan. After agonizing over how to proceed on the package for days, the Republican …

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WASHINGTON (BP) – A law criminalizing gender transition care for minors in Idaho can be applied while two anonymous teenage plaintiffs’ challenge to the law continues in court, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled April 15. In the meantime, the two plaintiffs in the case can continue to receive such care, which to date has included …

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Lifeway Research recently released a report on Southern Baptists’ views on political theology. The survey, which was sponsored by the Land Center for Cultural Engagement at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, looked at the views of Southern Baptist laity and key leaders and aimed to understand: It also explored attitudes toward specific constitutional rights and the …

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On this episode of the ERLC Podcast in the Christians and Politics series, we’re talking about the importance of your involvement in local and state politics. 2024 is a big year for politics. If you ask any person you pass on the street why this is the case, their answer would likely be because of …

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Nashville, Tenn., April 16, 2024 —The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention will host an online event, April 22 at 1:00 PM CST on “Bringing Hope to an Election Year: Christian Political Engagement in 2024 and Beyond.”  The free event will feature a conversation between ERLC President Brent Leatherwood and Daniel Darling, …

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‘When America steps back from engaging in the world, evil will fill that vacuum,’ says Leatherwood  Nashville, Tenn., April 12, 2024 —The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention sent a letter today to leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives in support of the people of Ukraine in their struggles to …

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(RNS) — Southern Baptist leaders have written to U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, a member and former official of their denomination, urging him to support Ukraine in Russia’s war against its Eastern European neighbor. Hannah Daniel, the ERLC’s director of public policy, told RNS in a statement that Southern Baptists have long opposed authoritarian regimes’ …

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Neither side of the abortion divide would probably design the exact candidate they have in 2024. In the summer of 2019, as a crowded Democratic primary was picking up speed, Joe Biden was on the defensive, pummeled by abortion-rights groups and his opponents for his support of the Hyde Amendment, a measure that prohibits the use …

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