The Salt & Light Council has created a new political resource to help biblically-minded voters parse through the candidates’ positions in line with a biblical worldview.

“Biblical Voter”, created two years ago by the council, has information on local, state, and national candidates for every government election.

The website informs voters by providing handouts, showing videos, and comparing Democrat and Republican candidates’ policy positions to what the Bible teaches. The website even has links to the four major Christian and Conservative Congressional Scorecards to showcase how each candidate aligns with a biblical worldview.

The scorecards come from a libertarian think tank Freedomworks, The Family Research Council, The Heritage Foundation, and Christian Coalition, which was co-founded by Pat Robertson.

The website also provides links to help visitors register to vote and find out where their polling place is.

There is also a link to help register others to vote by helping them with a voter drive. On the voter drive page there is a biblical voter pamphlet one can order online in addition to a voter registration kit.

In statements to The Christian Post, Salt & Light Council President Dran Reese explained, “If pastors aren’t making voting a priority treated equal to other priorities of the church, people are not going to…

Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett on Tuesday stood by her signing of a newspaper pro-life ad and her membership in a faculty pro-life group, although she did not disclose to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee how she may rule in future abortion cases.

If confirmed by the full Senate, Barrett would replace the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg and become the fifth woman to serve on the Supreme Court. She also would – according to Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) – become the first “woman who’s unashamedly pro-life” to serve on the high court.

Multiple Democratic senators, including Sens. Richard Blumenthal (Conn.) and Kamala Harris (Calif.), referenced a 2006 pro-life newspaper ad that included Barrett’s name and said the undersigned “oppose abortion on demand and support the right to life from fertilization to natural death.”

Barrett told GOP Sen. Josh Hawley (Mo.) she signed the ad while walking out of church with her family. It was sponsored by the St. Joseph County Right to Life.

“At the back of church there was a table set up for people on their way out of mass to sign a statement validating their commitment to the position of the Catholic church on life issues,” Barrett said. “… The statement that I signed, it was affirming the protection of life from conception to natural death.”

Barrett also was a member of…

(RNS) — The flagship seminary of the Southern Baptist Convention decided Monday (Oct. 12)  to maintain the names of campus buildings named for school founders who had connections to slavery. At the same meeting, the trustees of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary created a multimillion-dollar scholarship fund for African American students.

“We’re not going to erase our history in any respect or leave our history unaddressed,” said the school’s president, R. Albert Mohler Jr., in a statement. “We are seeking to respond to the moral and theological burden of history by being a far more faithful institution in the present and in the future than we’ve been in the past and in this central respect we acknowledge a special debt to African American Christians.”

Starting in the 2022-23 academic year, the school will earmark $1 million of restricted and endowed funds for the Garland Offutt Scholars Program to honor the first African American full graduate and assist Black students at the seminary. It plans to contribute an additional $1 million every three years until a $5 million goal is reached.

The seminary trustees also declared vacant the Joseph Emerson Brown Chair of Christian Theology, which was held by Mohler. Brown, governor of Georgia during the Civil War, earned a substantial part of his fortune from the exploitation of mostly Black convict-lease…

Left-leaning states may consider secession if President Trump wins the electoral college but loses the popular vote as he did in 2016, a columnist for the New York Times says in a new podcast.

Michelle Goldberg, an op-ed columnist for The Times and a contributor to MSNBC, made the comments during the Oct. 8 edition of The Argument, a podcast hosted by her and fellow columnist Ross Douthat. Much of the podcast focused on what would happen if Trump loses the election and refuses to leave office, but Douthat proposed a different scenario: What if America experiences a repeat of 2016, but “with an even bigger gap between the popular vote and the electoral college”?

Douthat suggested in his hypothetical: Trump wins Pennsylvania, Texas and Georgia narrowly and wins the electoral college but loses California “in an unprecedented blowout” and the popular vote to Biden, 53-45 percent. Douthat continued his hypothetical: “John Podesta, sort of embodying the Biden campaign and refusing to concede and literally urging California and other blue states to threaten some kind of secession if there isn’t some kind of negotiated deal that gets Trump out of office.” (Podesta served in the administrations of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.)

Goldberg said calls for secession in such a scenario would begin in the states.

“It’s not going to come from John Podesta. It’s not…

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is investigating a complaint made by an elderly resident of an apartment complex in Oklahoma after management allegedly demanded the removal of Bibles and religious decorations from a Christmas tree.

CBN News reports that Dr. Ben Carson, secretary of HUD, sent a letter to the Carriage Crossing complex in Tulsa, Oklahoma, warning the management that “barring religious materials infringes upon [religious liberty], and the Trump administration will not stand for discrimination against any group for practicing their religious traditions.” Carriage Crossing is owned by Vintage Housing, Inc. and managed by Wilhoit Properties.

The investigation will determine if there is enough evidence to violate the Fair Housing Act. If so, HUD will “seek conciliation and voluntary resolution.” The issue could also be resolved “through settlement, an administrative determination, or referral to the Department of Justice.”

According to The Oklahoman, representatives from both Vintage Housing and Wilhoit Properties have not yet responded to the statement.

“A Secretary-Initiated Complaint will result in a formal fact-finding investigation,” according to the statement. “The party against whom the complaint is filed will be provided notice and an opportunity to respond.”

Earlier this year, another senior resident…

Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett on Tuesday said the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide is not a “super precedent” of the court and also not “well-settled” like Brown v. Board of Education.

Barrett made the comments to Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar (Minn.) on the second day of questioning before the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is considering her nomination to replace the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Klobuchar asked Barrett if Brown v. Board of Education – the 1954 case that ruled school segregation was unconstitutional – was precedent that “could be overruled.” Klobuchar was referencing a 2013 article by Barrett in the Texas Law Review that distinguished between “precedent” and “super precedent.”

Barrett called Brown “super precedent.”

“People consider it to be on that very small list of things that are so widely established and agreed upon by everyone,” Barrett answered. “Calls for its overruling simply don’t exist.”

Klobuchar then asked her if Roe v. Wade, which was handed down in 1973, is super precedent. Barrett referenced her 2013 article, saying only about six Supreme Court cases can be called super precedent. Roe is not in that group, she said.

“People use super precedent differently. The way that it’s used in the scholarship and the way that I was using it in the article that you’re reading…