The head of the largest Swedish Christian church says God is beyond human gender determination.
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When Jay first arrived at the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship refugee ministry Welcome House from Afghanistan, he was prepared to endure four long, wearisome years getting on his feet and integrating into American society. Little did he know that he would spend less than four months securing an apartment, a new job and a life full of hope thanks to a network of CBF churches.
Religion scholars turn activist in the shadow of Trump
Alarm about Trump’s presidency — and the anti-intellectual forces several scholars say he has empowered — pervaded the annual joint meeting of the American Academy of Religion and the Society for Biblical Literature, which ended Nov. 21.
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The latest from our readers • Stand up for Christianity in the face of evangelicalism’s mess | David Hicks, Shanghai, China
Christianity is political. But America’s politically active Christians seem to be forgetting that.
Some appear to be open to establishing a pattern whereby even egregious moral failure is a price worth paying for political and cultural power; one need not seek actual goodness, but only not to exceed the badness of one’s opponents.
Two Texas churches, linked by tragedy amid the pews
Baptist churches in the Texas towns of Daingerfield and Sutherland Springs have become sister congregations, linked by eerily similar attacks 37 years apart.
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The latest from our readers • The wedding cake case is not religious discrimination | Stan Hastey, West Palm Beach. Fla.
Christian support for Roy Moore ‘looks like hypocrisy to the outside world’
Recent allegations against the aspiring Alabama senator fit a long and complicated history of religious debates about sex.
GOP ‘war’ on Johnson Amendment turns serious
When last we visited Republican meddling with the Johnson Amendment, it was (according to me) much ado about very little. With passage of the tax bill in the House of Representatives, it has turned into something serious.
Salvator Mundi went for $450m. But you can have the real thing for free
Atheists assert that Christians equate being good with religious faith. Thus when a Christian behaves badly, others cry: “Call yourself a Christian?” But this is wrongheaded. Any criticism of Christianity must surely come from the other direction.