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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A question has been nagging at me lately: How do I behave like a Christian in an election year?  The world has grown exponentially negative. Anxiety lurks about. Peace is hard to find. In my experience as a pastor, I have never seen mental health at such a low point.  And all of this applies …

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For conservative, anti-abortion Christians, former President Donald Trump delivered in four years what no other Republican before him had been able to do: A conservative majority U.S. Supreme Court that would go on to overturn Roe v. Wade, a Holy Grail of the movement. With abortion rights now controlled by each state, rather than legalized nationwide by …

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Nashville, Tenn., April 9, 2024 —The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, has hired Nathan A. Finn, Ph.D., to serve as a senior fellow with an emphasis on matters related to religious liberty. Finn is a professor of faith and culture at North Greenville University in Tigerville, South Carolina, where he also …

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