"The [Idaho] state prison system suspended its ability to carry out the death penalty through at least the end of the year as officials begin the transition to firing squad executions." idahostatesman.com/news/local/cri…

I believe in God is not the same as I follow the words and ways of Jesus.

A love letter, of sorts, to border czar, Tom Homan. My personal favorite line? “I realize you might be dumb as well…” nashvillescene.com/news/pithinthe… via @nashvillescene

The state of juvenile detention in the State of TN is outrageous! “What we do is treat everybody like they’re in here for murder,” propublica.org/article/richar…

Keith Gavin was promised he could recite four Islamic prayers before his execution, but only got halfway through the first. “They started the lethal injection process while I was still standing right there,” said Imam Abdul-Adarr, who led the prayers. boltsmag.org/alabama-execut…

“I hate, I despise your religious festivals; your assemblies are a stench to me… Away with the noise of your songs!…      But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!” ~God (Amos 5)

June is the month we honor #Fathers at the Death Row Soul Collective because one day is not enough. Some are incarcerated fathers, others write about their fathers in the free world. Read their poems, essays and reflections on our FB page: facebook.com/TheDRSoulColle…

Put ‘em away and look away. Should be TN’s slogan for how we address crime coming out of impoverished neighborhoods. Lord have mercy Christ have mercy

Paige Southwick Pfleger Mariam Elba WPLN News - Nashville Public Radio BUT - and this is the biggest of BUTS - the State of TN has oversight and could have shut the facility down numerous times over the years.

“Christ’s Kingdom will never be built with Caesar’s tools.” Let that one sink in…

An overnight riot reignited calls for a leadership shakeup at Trousdale Turner, one of the largest prisons in Tennessee axios.com/local/nashvill…

I hope he has some options in private practice. Tugging on the puppet master's sleave isn't going to sit well.

New from me, on the death of a Southern Baptist whistleblower as the annual convention opens in Dallas, "an annual meeting where abuse reform is dead in the water." With remembrances from Beth Moore, Karen Swallow Prior (Notorious KSP at The Priory) and others: nytimes.com/2025/06/09/us/…

Slavery was legal. Jim Crow was legal. Never limit your sense of morality to America's legal system.

May we follow Jesus into the good trouble of being peace-makers.

The President of the United States is not a king. "For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king; and there ought to be no other." --Thomas Payne

I wish more evangelicals would honestly ask themselves this question.

I am theologically & pragmatically committed to nonviolent resistance, but suggesting that protests that occasionally burst into violence are somehow unAmerican indicates a complete unfamiliarity with the United States of America. Violent protest is usually plan A here.

No mention was made of Jen Lyell, an abuse survivor who died this week, at the SBC Executive Committee meeting or at the first day of the SBC meeting religionnews.com/2025/06/10/jen…

Lord have mercy Christ have mercy