Nancy Butler, founding pastor of the Riverfront Family Church in Hartford, Conn., is in the final stage of Lou Gehrig’s disease. There was one thing the disease was not going to take from her: the right time to die.
Why famed atheist Stephen Hawking is on a pontifical academy
Stephen Hawking’s visit to the Vatican this week has raised curiosity, with some asking what exactly the famed astrophysicist and self-proclaimed atheist was doing in the heart of the Catholic Church.
BuzzFeed’s hit piece on Chip and Joanna Gaines is dangerous
The story’s upshot seems to be: Two popular celebrities might oppose same-sex marriage because the pastor of the church they go to opposes same-sex marriage, but I haven’t heard one way or the other.
The Sunday after
A post-election lesson from Jimmy Carter.
In today’s world, the truth is losing
Richard Stengel, the State Department’s undersecretary for public diplomacy, bluntly states the problem that has been worrying him and should worry us all: “In a global information war, how does the truth win?”
Dear Ivanka Trump: Save the planet from your dad
The stakes of climate change are huge — as your dad himself once argued. So what gives?
The Evangelicalism of old white men is dead
As a result of the presidential election, much of the good that went by the name “evangelicalism” has been clouded over; now a new movement is needed to replace it.
U.S. seeks death for Charleston shooting suspect. Victims’ families prefer mercy.
The federal government’s decision to pursue Dylann Roof’s execution is widely questioned, and it is in defiance of the wishes and recommendations of survivors of the attack, many family members of the dead and some Justice Department officials.
Hundreds of churches offer sanctuary to undocumented migrants after election
Growing numbers of synagogues and churches as well as two dozen U.S. cities are offering protection amid the threat of deportation under the Trump administration.
Standing Rock is a new turn in Christian ties with native Americans
Whatever the final result of the huge, long-running protests by native Americans against the Dakota Access Pipeline, the demonstrations will surely be remembered as a landmark in relations between organized religion, Christianity in particular, and indigenous people.
Accused Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof competent to stand trial, judge rules
A federal judge on Friday ruled that Dylann Roof, the 22-year-old accused of killing nine parishioners in a Charleston, S.C., church last year, is competent to stand trial.
The biggest myths about the first Christians
Most of what we think we know about the earliest Christians comes from later traditions, Hollywood epics and, sadly, “The Da Vinci Code.”