GUEST TOM ASCOL Senior Pastor Grace Baptist Church Cape Coral FL The Southern Baptist Convention SBC is the largest Protestant denomination in the United States with over churches and million members The SBC also operates five seminaries the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission ERLC Lifeway Christian Resources the North American Mission Board NAMB and more So when a -page report released recently detailing sexual abuse and cover up by SBC leadership and an allegation of sexual assault by a former SBC president shock waves reverberated inside and outside the denomination This is yet another sordid situation at the SBC You [... more]

There's an emerging America where issues like children religion and patriotism are far less important And in America it's the emerging generation that calls the shots about where the country is headed That is a foreboding quote from one of the pollsters who conducted the Wall Street Journal and NBC News poll in late August about the values of Americans across generational lines The contrast between the younger and older is indeed stark [... more]

Consider for a moment that a relatively unknown -year-old mayor of South Bend Indiana is running third in the Democrat race for president behind nationally-known candidates Joe Biden former Vice President and Bernie Sanders current U S Senator So what has made this young man so attractive to voters above far more prominent candidates such as Senators Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren former Texas Rep Beto O'Rourke and others Prominent liberal writer Andrew Sullivan already sought to answer the question in a New York Magazine article titled Is Pete Buttigieg a Transformational Candidate [... more]