“I have a confession.” After the opening of “Bohemian Rhapsody,” a movie about the hit rock band Queen, Hal Ostrander, professor of religion and philosophy for Wayland Baptist University, considers a Christian’s posture in a culture of entertainment.

Jana Reiss, of Religion News Service, shares seven of her favorite passages from Eugene Peterson in honor of his death.

In his timeless book, Jesus and the Disinherited, black minister and theologian Howard Thurman wrote, “There is one overmastering problem that the socially and politically disinherited always face: Under what terms is survival possible?”

In China, right now, no faith group is facing more persecution than the Uighur Muslims. For a Christian, an evangelical, and especially a Baptist—this is unacceptable.

Just when I thought I had seen gambling operators pull every trick in the book, a commercial poker club in Austin sued another commercial poker club in San Antonio.

“What does the gospel have to do with justice, particularly social justice?” … Christians, both as people of faith and citizens of this country, have pondered what to do in this current social climate.

I wonder if any of my fellow Southwestern Seminary alumni shared my roller-coaster ride related to the goings-on at our once-beloved alma mater.

The BJC carries on the historic Baptist tradition of fighting for religious liberty for all people, a mission made more difficult by the partisan jockeying over defining the term “religious liberty.”

“Our friends at this time-honored institution must determine if they wish to advance the cause of religious freedom for all or to advance the political agenda of a few.”

The religious aspects of 1968 are not quite as legendary as other events and trends of that year, but they are extraordinarily significant. What can re-examining them teach us about today?

“It may seem counterintuitive, if not downright implausible, that voting Democrat or Republican could change something as personal as our relationship with God,” Michele Margolis wrote in a recent New York Times op-ed. “But over the course of our lives, political choices tend to come first, religious choices second.”

We need to turn down the temperature in the culture wars. We need to resist the penetration of ideological polarization into matters of conscience. We should reject an insistence on consensus that subverts our national ethic of respect for minority views, and we should be suspect of the corporate machines that profit from these easy affirmations.