Isabel Phiri, of the World Council of Churches, is the first foreigner denied entry specifically for involvement with the BDS movement.
Trump Administration will herald creationism and climate-change scepticism in schools, critics warn
Despite relatively few concrete policy decisions emerging from the president-elect’s camp, his appointments have raised fears about the future of science, technology and maths teaching.
At Liberty University, all sins are forgiven on the altar of football
There was grand news out of Lynchburg, Va., last week: Liberty University announced that it had hired Ian McCaw, a “godly man of excellent character,” as its athletic director.
Crosses symbolize determination
The crosses on our church lawn not only speak to the life-aborting tragedy of murder, but also to the conditions which goad a human being to choose this irreversible option.
2 Mississippi churches transcend racial barriers after arson
Three weeks after their church in the Mississippi Delta was mostly destroyed by arson and someone spray-painted “Vote Trump” outside, an African-American congregation has been welcomed into the church of its white neighbors.
Final goodbyes: Pastor embraces death on her own terms
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.











