The M.Div.X program hopes to train innovative church leaders—with no student debt, says seminary president Robin J. Steinke.
Study: U.S. churches exclude children with autism, ADD/ADHD
Children with the greatest need for a supportive community were the most likely to feel unwelcome.
Inspired by the Beatles’ love gospel, ‘submarine churches’ bucked tradition
The 1968 release of The Beatles’ Yellow Submarine film influenced fashion, graphic design, music — and even a short-lived organization of “submarine churches” based on the gospel of Lennon and McCartney: “All You Need Is Love.”
Brownback opens religious freedom summit with plea to fight persecution
Some say the first-ever Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom demonstrates how the Trump administration prioritizes religious freedom. Others call it an attempt to appeal to Trump’s base of white evangelical supporters, who have long called religious liberty a priority and…
Charting the succession of the ‘true church’ through history
Landmark Baptists believed that an unbroken chain of Christians kept alive the true teachings of the New Testament.
Baylor ‘set the football program on fire’ as scapegoat in sex-assault scandal, says ex-athletic director
Baylor University’s former athletics director has a clear interpretation of how its high-profile sexual-assault scandal unfolded two years ago: A handful of board members and university officials concocted a plan to ensure that the football team would take the fall.
‘Monstrous’ treatment of immigrant children isn’t ‘fake news,’ but fake humanity
One wonders if we have the same care for almost 3,000 children who have been ripped from their parents’ arms at the U.S./Mexico border as we did toward those 12 boys in Thailand who were trapped in a cave.
While Trump enjoys golf, former president Jimmy Carter, 92, is building homes for the poor
Mr. Carter returned to work on a building site after being taken to hospital for dehydration, while President Trump kicked back at the U.S. Women’s Open.
Small town churches across America, Alabama struggle with Trump’s words, actions
The presidency of Donald Trump has created unavoidable moral dilemmas for a distinct subset of Christians who are overwhelmingly white, overwhelmingly evangelical and more uniformly pro-Trump than any other part of the American electorate.
Immigrant shelters drug traumatized teenagers without consent
Whether they came to the U.S. alone, or were forcibly separated from their families at the border, despondent minors are often pressured into taking psychotropic drugs without approval from a parent or guardian. Related commentary: Inviolate! The protection of all…
How the National Prayer Breakfast plays into the indictment of an alleged Russian spy
Journalist and author Jeff Sharlet on the National Prayer Breakfast, Maria Butina, and the group that calls itself “the Family.”
I’m a pro-life woman. But I’m worried about a post-Roe America.
For nearly half a century, abortion has been enshrined by our courts as a constitutional right. What will happen to our society if that ceases to be true?











