James Madison wrote his “Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments” in part because a religious minority was being regarded with suspicion, dislike and mistrust. That religious minority was the Baptists.
Falwell says Trump administration has tapped him to lead a higher-ed panel
The Trump administration has asked Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. to lead a panel on reform of higher education regulations, the leader of the evangelical Christian school said Tuesday.
Texas mosque flooded with nearly $1 million in donations after fire
Three days after setting up a fundraising page online, leaders at the Victoria Islamic Center were shocked to see that they had already surpassed their previous goal of $850,000, thanks to donations from over 20,000 people.
Why evangelicals are speaking out against Betsy DeVos
The conservative Christian education secretary nominee would seem like an evangelical favorite. But some from within her own faith say she’s not right for the job.
‘How many more?’ 52 paper cutouts pop up at Baylor after lawsuit alleges 52 rapes
Students taped 52 paper cutouts in the shape of people to the ground on Fountain Mall, near the student center, to represent the 52 acts of rape that Friday’s lawsuit claims were committed between 2011 and 2014.
Why this group of Christians comes to Sundance Film Festival every year
For 14 years, seminary students and faculty have been coming to Sundance to screen movies, meet with film producers and directors and talk about what it all means in a Christian context.
These prominent evangelicals are pretty sure Trump’s refugee ban is perfectly moral
Some of President Donald Trump’s top evangelical advisors have reached a troubling, and somewhat baffling, theological consensus about a restrictions he’s placed on refugees entering the country.
Refugee ban, border wall: Religious leaders respond
Religious organizations, leaders and individuals have been quick to react to President Trump’s expected executive orders on building a wall along the Southern border, on negating sanctuary cities and on banning refugees from Syria and other Muslim countries.
Pray for the president — and act
Christians also must be vigilant to demand truth—from government, from media, from one another. Truth and facts should not be political tools. They should be fixed points of reality, upon which we base our decisions and expect lawmakers and other…
Longtime leader of clergy victims group leaves as SNAP faces lawsuit
A fixture in the organization working for children sexually abused by Catholic priests has resigned his post, an announcement that coincides with a lawsuit from a former employee alleging the group colluded with lawyers to refer clients and profit from…
Donald Trump’s immigration policies could threaten religious liberty
Religious liberty is not just about matters of conscience or how one worships. It also involves whether one has freedom to obey one’s religion’s commands, especially when it comes to serving and caring for those in great need.
Trump is creating a new form of Christian nationalism centered on himself
Donald Trump, flanked by his menagerie of loyal faith leaders, is already preaching a nationalist gospel from the largest of pulpits. And while the exact parameters of this developing theology remain to be seen, it’s clear a revival of American…











