Congregants gather for a sacred weekly meal where the conversation serves as the sermon and freshly baked bread provides nourishment, communion and income.
How Trump is highlighting divisions among Southern Baptists
Those tensions — racial, sectional, but mostly generational — have been forming for more than a decade, thanks in large part to the rise of social media and millennials, and will be on full display this week when the convention…
Is it hateful to believe in Hell? Bernie Sanders’ questions prompt backlash
A low-profile confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill this week raised eyebrows when the questioning turned to theology — specifically, damnation.
A liberal congregation burns hot under Trump
We were already active in our community. Now we’re on overdrive.
Southern Baptists embrace gender-inclusive language in the Bible
America’s largest Protestant denomination has produced a revised translation that incorporates many features it had long condemned.
Your rabbi? Probably a Democrat. Your Baptist pastor? Probably a Republican. Your priest? Who knows.
America’s pastors are even more politically divided than the rest of us, according to a new data set representing the largest compilation of American religious leaders ever assembled.
1 dead, multiple people injured in Madison County church bus crash outside Atlanta
Authorities say a bus carrying dozens of people from a Baptist church has crashed near Atlanta, killing one person and injuring several others.
Jerry Falwell Jr. says he will be part of a Trump education initiative
Falwell said Thursday that he is still part of a higher education initiative for President Donald Trump but said the initiative is different from the group he had been tapped to lead in late January.
Lawmakers embraced religion to allow discrimination
What are “sincerely held religious beliefs?” Nobody really knows.
Who killed the contemporary Christian music industry?
The precipitous dropoff in CCM sales has left Christian labels and artists staring into the void alongside their pastors, scratching their heads, wondering where they went wrong.
Pence defends Trump as champion of Catholic values
Vice President Mike Pence proclaimed President Trump a faithful supporter of Catholic values at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast, an event that sought to set aside any friction between the president and the pope.
How to be a purple church in a red state
A visitor at a small progressive church in a conservative community expected to find an enclave of hipsters. Instead the people were typical of America’s heartland — hog farmers and schoolteachers, mechanics and grocery store managers.











