Worshiping with drug addicts and sometimes-disruptive schizophrenics wasn’t the way Jimmy Dorrell envisioned his calling while growing up in Conroe, Texas, in the 1960s.
A second Arkansas judge has ruled the state must reveal more information about drugs used in lethal injections for capital punishment. Pulaski County Circuit Judge Mackie Pierce ruled Sept. 19 that officials must disclose the labels on its new supply…
Many elements of Lost Cause religion were rooted in distorted biblical hermeneutics, interpretative methods that gave proof texts for anti-Semitism, chattel slavery, Jim Crow separatism and white privilege.
People look at the same thing, or same person, and come to widely different conclusions about the nature and significance of those things or persons. That says more about the people than the thing observed.
The first church in North Carolina to extend sanctuary to an undocumented immigrant facing deportation finds that the decision to open their doors is just the beginning of the journey.
Please submit transitions — including staff changes, ordinations, anniversaries or deaths — to Barbara Francis. This page will be updated weekly. STAFF CHANGES Cynthia Aulds, concluding her tenure as missions coordinator at Sugar Land (Texas) Baptist Church. Danielle Bridgeforth, to First…
Asking a judicial nominee to explain statements made about the relationship between her faith and the law is fair game. It is peculiar for religious conservatives to be squeamish about such questions.
Worshiping with drug addicts and sometimes-disruptive schizophrenics wasn’t the way Jimmy Dorrell envisioned his calling while growing up in Conroe, Texas, in the 1960s.
Alliance Defending Freedom has garnered its fair share of both praise and criticism from actors on both sides of the culture wars.
The high court chips away at the once impregnable wall between church and state.
Leaders of R.E. Lee Memorial Episcopal Church in Lexington, Va., voted to change the parish’s name to Grace Episcopal Church — what it was originally called when Lee moved to town after the Civil War and joined the congregation.
As a result of the growing influence of the far-right social-media ecosystem, once-moribund hate groups in both the United States and Europe are enjoying a striking uptick in recruitment.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a massive spending bill Sept. 14 that includes a provision consonant with President Trump’s stated desire to “get rid of and totally destroy” a decades-old law requiring that churches and other charities accepting tax-exempt benefits stay out of partisan politics.
Those who are spared must not simply rejoice in their seeming “chosenness,” but must use every resource to alleviate the suffering of others. Guilt may not be the best source of motivation, but if it spurs compassion, it is constructive.
Several football players at an evangelical college outside Chicago are facing arrest over actions that took place during the alleged hazing of a freshman teammate in March 2016.
