Dec. 8 marks the celebration of Bodhi Day in Japanese Buddhism. Bodhi means enlightenment or awakening in Sanskrit. It commemorates the enlightenment of Siddhartha Gautama, who became the Buddha.
T.D. Jakes speaks to church via video week after health emergency that led to surgery
Bishop T.D. Jakes returned briefly via video to address his Dallas megachurch a week after experiencing a still-undisclosed medical incident that led to surgery.
Michigan Republican Says Gay Marriage Should Be ‘Illegal Again’
A Republican state lawmaker in Michigan said gay marriage should be “illegal again,” an inflammatory remark that prompted swift rebuke from Democrats.
ABHMS gets $1.25 million Lilly grant
American Baptist Home Mission Societies has received a $1.25 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. through its Nurturing Children Through Worship and Prayer Initiative. Over five years, grant funds will help ABHMS establish and execute its Nurturing Children Initiative, a…
India’s anti-conversion law is fine-tuned to allow policing of Christians
In July, more than two years after a Christian prayer service at his home was raided by police, a court in Uttar Pradesh in northern India acquitted Abhishek Gupta, a 41-year-old radiologist, of violating the state’s anti-conversion law.
Pope hopes to visit Turkey in 2025 to mark 1,700 years since the Council of Nicaea
Pope Francis said on Thursday that he hopes to travel to Turkey next year to commemorate the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, Christianity’s first ecumenical council.
‘We can work with him’: Abortion opponents tentatively embrace Trump, and pro-choice RFK Jr.
Anti-abortion activists are elated about Donald Trump’s return to power despite annoyances with the president-elect’s lack of appetite for national restrictions.
Border Patrol trains more chaplains as the job and polarizing immigration debate rattle agents
As immigration remains a hotly contested priority for the Trump administration after playing a decisive role in the deeply polarized election, the Border Patrol agents tasked with enforcing many of its laws are wrestling with growing challenges on and off the job.
Signing church services for the Deaf is a work of love — and a willingness to learn the Bible
At the First Baptist Church of Suitland, just across the District of Columbia border in Maryland, a typical Sunday service includes coffee and pastries, warm greetings and a sermon delivered by Pastor Quintin Few Sr., in an auditorium with a…
The truth about religious disaffiliation depends on a long view, according to BYU researchers
One of the world’s leading researchers on how to pass religion on to children, Vern Bengtson (1941-2019), walked away from his faith earlier in his life. But in his 60s, this renowned scholar found himself, as C.S. Lewis once said, “surprised by…
Adam Schiff, California’s Jewish senator-elect and Trump’s nemesis, says the US is ‘very much weakened as a democracy’
Long ago, when Adam Schiff was in Slovakia on a temporary assignment from the U.S. Justice Department, he decided to seek out his family’s ancestral home in Lithuania.
How the gladiators inspired evangelicals’ sense of persecution
With the release of Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator II,” audiences will be plunged back into the cinematic excitement of the Roman amphitheater so vividly captured in its predecessor, “Gladiator.”