For many Christian women, including racial minorities, and others whose voices traditionally have not been heard by or represented in institutional churches, the Internet has created new platforms to teach, preach and connect.
White noise: An homage to Christian think-pieces
When we become willing to routinely sit alongside people who disagree with us vehemently and at the most foundational level, it’s like, for just a second, things slow down and cease being about the institution winning or losing or living…
U.S. support for same-sex marriage edges to new high
Sixty-four percent of U.S. adults say same-sex marriages should be recognized by the law. Although not meaningfully different from the 61 percent last year, this is the highest percentage to date.
Trump: ‘In America we do not worship government, we worship God’
After a week of chaos in Washington, the president finally found a friendly crowd at Liberty University.
A new battleground over political correctness: Duke Divinity School
An email exchange dragged Duke Divinity School into the nationwide debates over racism and free speech on college campuses, and now has ended with a professor’s decision to step down.
Jakarta’s Christian governor imprisoned for blasphemy
Known as a leader of religious tolerance in Southeast Asia, Indonesia is beginning to feel the pull of its staunch Islamist groups.
Pew: Here’s how badly Soviet atheism failed in Europe
In 18 nations across Central and Eastern Europe, religion is now essential to national identity.
Why is pop culture so obsessed with nuns all of a sudden?
Nuns have always been popular figures in the cultural imagination. Yet not since the era of Fräulein Maria and the von Trapps have we seen a pop-culture Nunnaissance like the one taking place right now.
I’m a pastor with depression. For years I thought I had to hide it.
Depression lies to me. It is relentless. It tells me I will always feel this way, that I’m not deserving of help, that I am a burden, a waste, that my life is thoroughly hopeless.
Who’s more cynically using religion: Trump or his Religious Right boosters?
The Religious Right’s mixed reaction to last week’s highly staged Rose Garden signing of an executive order on religious liberty might be a useful gauge of leaders’ level of cynicism—or their willingness to play along with Trump’s own cynical use…
Evangelicals and the Supreme Court
A few years ago a commentator observed that while we evangelicals have a lot to say about judicial decisions, when it comes to choosing justices who have conservative religious views, the nod typically goes to Catholics because evangelicals lack the requisite…
The rise of café churches in South Korea
How corruption scandals are driving young Christians away from megachurches and conservative politics.











