Franklin Graham Espouses Debunked “Birther” Claims

On Sunday, evangelist Franklin Graham argued that President Barack Obama may not have been born in the United States, even though numerous independent fact-checkers have debunked that claim as erroneous. The White House quickly condemned Graham’s attack. Graham,...

SBC Leader Quits Group Promoting Religious Liberty

Richard Land, head of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, recently quit a group that defends the religious liberty rights of Muslims. Even as Land quit the group because of criticism from some Southern Baptists, he defended...

Confessional Politics Excommunicates Minority Groups

Over the past three decades, American presidential elections have been dominated by a confessional political style where candidates must invoke God and quote Scripture in ways more testimonial, sectarian, partisan and liturgical than in previous elections. As a...

Some Baptists Echo “Lie of the Year”

The 2010 “Lie of the Year” found a snug home among some Southern Baptist leaders. PolitiFact.com, which won a Pulitzer last year for its investigative fact-checking of political claims, announced this month that the year’s top lie was the accusation...