By Joshua Speight Churches have personalities, much like individuals. According to Enneagram wisdom, and most psychological work on personality, humans have three centers of functioning: thinking, feeling, doing. Congregations and our communities have similar functions. And, both at the individual…
Translating the N. T. Wright and David Bentley Hart Tussle
The recent New Testament dust-up between big-name scholars reminds us how hard—and important—Bible translation can be.
It started as a joke: Only women could fix the ‘mess in the Middle East’
On an intense weeklong trip through the Holy Land, six rabbis and five ministers, all women, try to figure out a way to make the discourse about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict less toxic.
Pence: U.S. embassy to move to Jerusalem in 2019
Vice President Mike Pence announced that the U.S. Embassy in Israel will move from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in 2019.
Franklin Graham praises Trump as staunch defender of Christianity
Graham, son of the famous evangelist Billy Graham and president of the international Christian relief organization Samaritan’s Purse, appeared on Fox & Friends on Sunday to tout what he believes Trump accomplished during his first year.
Protestant, Muslim, Atheist, Jew: 4 leftist perspectives a year into Trump’s presidency
If Trump has invigorated the swath of conservative religious Americans, he has also galvanized the religious left.
First year of Trump-Pence brings bountiful blessings, religious conservatives say
A year after President Trump moved into the White House, many of the Christian conservatives who helped put him there are counting their blessings.
Author of books on presidents’ faith says Trump misunderstands evangelicals
Author Stephen Mansfield, who has written about the faith of former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, says the current occupant of the Oval Office has captured the “fundamental gripes” of evangelicals but misunderstands just how divided they are these days.
Pope shocks Chile by accusing sex abuse victims of slander
Pope Francis accused victims of Chile’s most notorious pedophile of slander Thursday, an astonishing end to a visit meant to help heal the wounds of a sex abuse scandal that has cost the Catholic Church its credibility in the country.
How podcasting hurts preaching
There are profound consequences for doing simply what is possible and popular in our culture without considering what is prudent. But for the church, unique among all institutions, this is a particularly serious problem.
Yes, your ancestors probably did come here legally — because ‘illegal’ immigration is less than a century old
The concept of being an “illegal” immigrant pretty much dates back to 1924 — less than a century ago. For most of American history, coming here “legally” meant next to nothing. And almost none of those who came here “legally” a century ago would make it across the border under today’s far more stringent standards.
82 rabbis, activists arrested On Capitol Hill over DACA protest
More than 80 Jewish clergy members and activists were arrested on Capitol Hill on Wednesday for protesting President Donald Trump’s plan to end a program that protects hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children.