All five Catholic bishops in Washington state have issued a statement in response to comments by President Donald Trump which explains that public masses were suspended “out of our deepest respect for human life and health” amid the COVID-19 crisis.
The Jornaleros: Voices of Day Laborers Facing COVID-19
Day laborers—in Spanish, jornaleros—are at once the most and least visible people in the US. In non-pandemic times, at least, you can readily find people who provide day-labor services standing by the side of the road at busy intersections. And yet…
How Americans’ ‘tell it like it is’ attitude renders us vulnerable to conspiracy theories
As we enter the third month of the coronavirus lockdown, conspiracy theories about the coronavirus, and what will or won’t cure it, abound. There are the quick fixes hawked by the president, who has repeatedly promoted the unproven hydroxychloroquine as…
Ravi Zacharias Dies of Cancer
Apologist Ravi Zacharias died Tuesday, two months after he announced he had been diagnosed with cancer. He was 74.
United Methodists would’ve met this week to consider a split. What are they doing instead?
Were 2020 going as planned, United Methodists from around the world would be wrapping up a two-week meeting in Minneapolis, where they were expected to discuss a measure to split the denomination.
‘GOD TV’ spat exposes tensions between Israel, evangelicals
An evangelical broadcaster who boasted of miraculously securing a TV license in Israel now risks being taken off the air over suspicions of trying to convert Jews to Christianity.
Al Mohler, Southern Baptist leader, says he was ‘stupid’ to defend slavery in 1998 CNN interview
In December of 2018, Albert Mohler, longtime president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, released a report detailing and denouncing the school’s legacy “in the horrifying realities of American slavery, Jim Crow segregation, racism, and even the avowal of white racial supremacy.”
A New Monastic community in a time of social distancing
It’s 5 p.m. on the first Monday after we realized this thing was a pandemic. I’m in a house in Los Angeles with 11 people. This morning the president recommended not gathering in groups of more than ten.
Where Do White Evangelicals Get Their Coronavirus News? The White House
With claims of a “plandemic” and other conspiracy theories swirling, the need to communicate accurate, trustworthy information about the coronavirus is becoming more crucial.