• Letter: Exchanging Great Commission for politics

  A letter this week ponders the implications of Christians’ temptation to strive politically rather than influence spiritually.

• Letters: Hate, police, religious liberty

  Letters this week focus on law enforcement, evangelicals’ tendency to whine and church-state separation.

• Letters: National healing; CBF and biblical authority

  Letters this week deal with Baptist response to racial discrimination in America and the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s stand on biblical authority.

• Letter: Little hope for SBC awakening

  A letter writer questions how the Southern Baptist Convention can achieve “awakening” without self-examination.

• Letters: Confederate flag, Old North/Union Church, awakening

  This week’s letters focus on the Confederate battle flag, the name of a church and the Southern Baptist Convention’s plea for “awakening”

• Letters: Confederate flag, evolution

  Readers oppose the Southern Baptist Convention’s resolution against the Confederate battle flag.

• Letters: Briles, Trump, Starr, handguns, Muslims

  Letters this week focus on Art Briles, who was fired as Baylor University’s football coach; Donald Trump, whose followers include some Southern Baptists; Ken Starr, who was fired as Baylor’s president; and handguns

• Letters: Tributes to Lynn Craft, Golden Gate Seminary

  Writers express gratitude for the life and ministry of Lynn Craft and for the ministry-training platform of Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary

• Letter: Vote to “further God’s purpose”

  “Social injustice and immigration reform can only be addressed when the lives of the most innocent are protected first.”

• Letters: Baylor, voting, education

  Letters this week include commentary on the sexual abuse scandal at Baylor University, as well as editorials on Texas’ school-funding system and Christian voting.

• Letter: Need to know the whole story

  Reader challenges editor to examine “what’s even more immoral” about public education and the Texas Legislature.

• Letters: Politics, politics, politics, politics, pope

  Loud on Trump; quiet on Clinton I’m pretty tired of the apparently liberal Baptist Standard feeling that this anything negative about Trump is worthy of news is worthy of news…