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Somewhere along the line, HPUMC forgot an important concept

As a 21-year-old, serving my first full-time church “gig” as youth director at Calvary United Methodist Church in Paris, Texas, I quickly learned just how influential Highland Park United Methodist Church was. My first annual conference took place at Highland…

Voting is a ‘means by which we exercise our faith’

Voting is the “means by which we exercise our faith, how we change it with our hands,” a Muslim cleric told a Dallas interfaith group Oct. 23. Muhammad Abdullah, an imam at Masjid Al-Islam in South Dallas, was one of…

Muslim constituents deserve to be heard, Arkansas candidate says

Arkansas Secretary of State candidate Kelly Grappe was just doing the good candidate thing when she accepted an invitation to speak to a group of Americans who happened to be Muslims, she said. “It was just something you do when…

The birth of Christian nationalism: ‘I’ll teach them how to hate’

Editor’s note: This presentation was made to a gathering of the Forum on the Military Chaplaincy held at Brite Divinity School at TCU on Monday, Oct. 19. It has been edited only slightly for context. On a July evening in 2024,…

Dallas megachurch overwhelmingly votes to leave UMC

This is a developing story and will be updated as new information becomes available. Ninety percent of the voting members of Highland Park Methodist Church vote to leave The United Methodist Church, following a recommendation of the Church Council….

In Israel: The congregations that stayed

Ken Sehested’s column on remembering St. Francis asked how a saint gets domesticated, made comfortable, scrubbed of the strangeness that made him worth remembering. I write from Efrat, Israel, where two years of war have kept a version of that…

Trump’s Justice Department drops discrimination cases

The Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Justice Department has withdrawn from, closed or sought to end more than 36 cases of discrimination involving Black, Latino and Native American victims, Democracy Forward reported. The Washington, D.C.-based legal organization recently released…

Gov. Sanders mixes bad religion with bad politics

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders decided to play a theologian in a speech to the Women’s Leadership Summit sponsored by Turning Point USA this summer, and it wasn’t a good look. The video is now circulating on social media. She…

In conversation with Shively T.J. Smith

Shively Smith is a biblical scholar at Boston University (where Howard Thurman served as dean of chapel and a doctoral student named Martin Luther King Jr. listened to his sermons and learned at his feet). She has written two books…

Catholic bishops take heat for praying over Trump

At least two Catholic bishops have apologized for appearing to endorse President Donald Trump during an Oval Office meeting they claim was manipulated by the White House. A dozen Catholic bishops visited the White House Thursday, Oct. 22, and were…

Franklin Graham extols Republican values

Franklin Graham turned to social media not once but twice recently to urge Christians to vote Republican in in the midterm elections. The president of Samaritan’s Purse and Billy Graham Evangelistic Association posted on Facebook and X twice with variations…

Howerton calls Zach Lambert a ‘heretic’ but welcomes Bo French

Southern Baptist megachurch pastor Josh Howerton welcomed one of the most controversial Republicans on the ballot to church today while two days earlier condemning another Texas pastor as a “heretic” for supporting James Talarico. Howerton, senior pastor of Lakepointe Church…

Here’s a clue about the fake trans mailers

35 clergy and family of clergy appeal for no vote at HPUMC

Howerton calls Zach Lambert a ‘heretic’ but welcomes Bo French

Trump’s Justice Department drops discrimination cases

Somewhere along the line, HPUMC forgot an important concept

Voting is a ‘means by which we exercise our faith’

Muslim constituents deserve to be heard, Arkansas candidate says

The birth of Christian nationalism: ‘I’ll teach them how to hate’

Dallas megachurch overwhelmingly votes to leave UMC

In Israel: The congregations that stayed

Trump’s Justice Department drops discrimination cases

Gov. Sanders mixes bad religion with bad politics

In conversation with Shively T.J. Smith

Catholic bishops take heat for praying over Trump

Franklin Graham extols Republican values

Howerton calls Zach Lambert a ‘heretic’ but welcomes Bo French

Israel’s global image is deteriorating. Why isn’t it a bigger issue in the election?

Multisite churches are growing faster than leadership pipelines can keep up with, research shows

To make AI morally good, tech companies are turning to religion. But some say it isn’t that simple

Nearly Half Of Republicans See This 1 Quality As A Threat — And It Speaks Volumes About Their Priorities

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Here’s a clue about the fake trans mailers

35 clergy and family of clergy appeal for no vote at HPUMC

Howerton calls Zach Lambert a ‘heretic’ but welcomes Bo French

Trump’s Justice Department drops discrimination cases