Politics & Government

The President & Immigration

You May Not Know You Know Me

Mandy Smith shares the story of Marco Saavedra-Mendez, an undocumented immigrant whose experiences with belonging, uncertainty, and fear challenged her assumptions and prompted a pastoral response of listening,…

What I’ve Learned, What I Believe About Immigration

Gayla Cooper Congdon examines immigration through Scripture, Christian statements on reform, and her experience near the U.S.-Mexico border, challenging Christians to consider racism, materialism, compassion, and responsibility.

Immigration: Our Position

Christian Standard considers differing views on immigration while challenging Christians to recognize the immigrants in their communities and respond to them with compassion, practical concern, and Christian love.

The Other Side of the Fence

Fernando Soto-Dupuy examines immigration and national borders from a Hispanic pastor's perspective, challenging churches to consider their mission toward undocumented immigrants living and worshiping in their communities.

Immigration: What’s a Christian to Think?

Alan F.H. Wisdom examines the difficult moral and public-policy questions surrounding U.S. immigration, considering biblical teaching, the rule of law, refugees, border security, amnesty, and the unintended consequences…

Immigration: What Does the Bible Say?

M. Daniel Carroll R. examines immigration through global, biblical, missional, and legislative perspectives, asking how Scripture should shape Christian attitudes toward immigrants, strangers, hospitality, and public policy.

The Candidates and Causes We Worship

Drawing on Timothy Keller’s Counterfeit Gods, Mark A. Taylor considers how politics can become an idol—and why Christians can engage political issues passionately while keeping their ultimate hope…

Christians Should Care about Collective Bargaining

Troy Jackson considers collective bargaining, public employee unions, and Ohio Senate Bill 5 through Scripture, arguing for political debate shaped by biblical convictions about workers, human dignity, and…

What’s Different Now?

A decade after 9/11, two scholars assess the attacks’ spiritual impact on America, examining deepening political-religious divisions, the effects of war, and long-term trends reshaping the nation’s religious…

Cease-Fire: Rethinking the Culture Wars

Kelly Boyd argues that the culture war has distracted Christians from the Great Commission and calls the church to recover a gospel-centered witness shaped by the examples of…

And God Bless America

Drawing on years of overseas ministry, Doug Priest reflects on patriotism, America’s place in the world, and why a Christian’s primary loyalty belongs to God’s kingdom among all…

Behind Closed Doors

An Arab Christian serving in the Middle East reminds American believers not to take religious freedom for granted—and challenges the church to use that freedom to evangelize, study,…

“Same-Sex Marriage” What Should We Do?

Ben Cachiaras urges Christians to respond to debates over same-sex marriage with humility, conviction, prayer, and love while remembering the church’s primary calling.

Colorado Church Wins Long Court Fight Over Land Use

The U.S. Supreme Court declined Boulder County’s appeal in its case against Rocky Mountain Christian Church, leaving in place a final win tied to federal religious land-use protections.