Trump made his announcement on Dec. 6, ignoring pressure from world leaders who said the move would further incite an already volatile region and make it harder to restart peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians.

Americans cherish the First Amendment principle of “religious freedom” even as they question its meaning and test its limits, scholars say.

The plan is a guide for historically black university to become more competitive in the higher-education market, help its students succeed, develop strong leaders within the college and become fiscally solvent, leaders said.

The minister says he knows the letter he sent parishioners was inappropriate. But spare a thought, and perhaps a prayer, for clergy who even now find the cursor hovering over the “send” button. There are more than you might think.

One Baptist minister said he initially joined because the union movement needs Christians to be involved. “But since that time … a complaint was made against me and I realized it could be very helpful,” he said.

In a legal case with profound implications for LGBT rights and religion’s place in public life, the opposing sides agree on this: It’s not about the cake.

Fifty years after Martin Luther King Jr. began his Poor People’s Campaign, William J. Barber II, a black minister and civil rights leader from North Carolina, and Liz Theoharis, a white theologian originally from Milwaukee, will revive it.

The conventional guidance, parroted as if it were gospel, goes something like: Be generous, follow your passions and do enough research to verify that a chosen charity won’t squander your money. It’s not that simple.

Some object that using taxpayer funds to rebuild houses of worship would violate separation of church and state, but proponents argue that religious groups, which are often at the forefront of disaster relief efforts, are being unfairly disadvantaged.

The reactions to revelations of sexual abuse by the late theologian John Howard Yoder, and especially to a recent published response to Yoder’s actions by theologian Stanley Hauerwas, continue to prompt wide-ranging conversations. Here are two of the latest.

Besides growing a church with new converts to Christianity, New City Church’s central mission is to slow, stop, and even turn back the negative effects of gentrification in urban Minneapolis communities.