On Oct. 4, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland wrote a memorandum threatening to mobilize federal law enforcement because parents are expressing their opinions at taxpayer-funded school board meetings. (I apologize for knocking you off your feet.) This provocation crosses a line rarely – if ever – seen on American soil. Missouri parents, bet you never thought you would be on the FBI’s “Most Wanted” list.

While it may feel to many that America is on the eve of destruction, alas, there is hope that our nation may soon repent of one of its greatest sins: abortion.

Our mighty God is sovereign, and He alone commands the world. Like the Edomites, the Taliban are sinning against God. America has run astray, but Christians must stay loyal to God and pray for God’s intervention in Afghanistan – and America.

The federal government has made clear that states must have a process for students, parents and teachers to report violations of their rights. Such unalienable rights come from God, not from any king, emperor, president, congress, court or crowd. The government’s God-ordained job is to protect those rights.

More than ever, Southern Baptists need journalists who believe absolute truth exists – and that we can know it, just as Jesus said in John 8:32.

So, what now for Southern Baptists after the SBC annual meeting in Nashville? ... Everyone has returned to their community churches and are carrying on in their efforts to bring the good news of Jesus Christ to the far ends of the earth.

A letter by the former president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC), claiming his ouster was employing a strategy to keep him “in psychological terror,” was leaked to a liberal news organization, but was withheld from ERLC trustees for more than a year by the board chairman.

Anytime a secular journalist quotes the Bible, sirens go off in my head. With surveys showing 90 percent of donations by journalists go to liberal Democrat candidates and editorial boards advocating unbiblical behavior, we ought to take notice when a journalist uses the Bible to justify a political position.

On April 19 I testified before the Missouri House of Representatives General Laws Committee. I was surprised at how little some committee members knew about the highly controversial 1619 Project being pushed by the New York Times.