Rick Pidcock

As my son and I walked through the press screening and out to the gathering space for Rededicate 250, I began having flashbacks to my years in a white evangelical megachurch.

As Southern Baptists prepare to consider Al Mohler's so called “Truth and Unity Amendment” at their annual meeting in Orlando next month, many Baptist women are becoming weary of Southern Baptist men defining “unity” as joining together to silence women.

The so-called Mohler Amendment to prohibit women from functioning as pastors in Southern Baptist churches is being hailed by his minions as “critical for us at this juncture.”

The headlines each year going into the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting seem to focus on Southern Baptists' latest attempts to put women in their place and keep them there.

While the Trump administration and their voters seem increasingly hostile to releasing the Epstein Files, they're continuing to release UFO files. The images, videos and written testimony have led to a constant stream of speculation and questions over the past month, not only about what the files depict but about what they might mean for our views of religion.

“Take him out! Blow him up! Take him out! Blow him up!” the children chant during a vacation Bible school program at Mt. Olivet Baptist Church in Lexington, Ky.

Jesus orchestrated the brutal murder of your teenage friend and her mom. So says John Piper in a recent “Ask Pastor John” podcast episode titled, “ Sovereignty and My Murdered Friend .”

In surveillance video that's since gone viral, Pastor Tony Spell of Life Tabernacle Church in Baton Rouge, La., is seen outside his church when he reacts suddenly to young man standing across the street.

“What a Sunday!” Houston First Baptist Church's social media team celebrates on Facebook. “From worship to fellowship, Pocket Constitutions to patriotic tunes, we're grateful for a church family that gathers with thankful hearts and points people to Jesus. Happy birthday, America!”

White conservative Christian men are rising up all over the nation to take their place at the top of their families, churches and communities.