The descent of the 2016 presidential campaign last week into the realm of sex tapes and marital infidelity was remarkable enough in its own right, but it also offered a reminder of what has been largely absent from the race:…
Frederick D. Haynes III: We’re not having normal church anymore
After the police shootings in Dallas and incidents of police violence against African-Americans, the church can no longer afford to conduct business as usual, a prominent African-American pastor says in this interview.
2 friars’ mission: Reviving a Brooklyn church in a religious ‘dead zone’
On the brink of closing the church, the Diocese of Brooklyn called in the friars, who are reintroducing Catholicism to the neighborhood in unconventional ways.
The astonishing power of small churches: Fan the flame
While we’ve been obsessed with building large congregations, God has been planting small churches like spiritual seeds in thirsty ground, into every possible furrow on earth.
On God and heaven, Americans are all over the map
Two-thirds of Americans believe God accepts the worship of all religions, including Christianity, Judaism and Islam. The exception: Americans with evangelical Christian beliefs, according to LifeWay Research’s 2016 State of American Theology Study.
Torn over Donald Trump and cut off by culture wars, evangelicals despair
Many evangelicals say that they feel they have no genuine champion in the presidential race and that the country has turned its back on them.
Can an atheist lead a Protestant church? A battle over religion in Canada.
The Rev. Gretta Vosper’s decision to turn her church into a haven for nonbelievers “looking for a community that will help them create meaningful lives without God” has become too much even for the liberal-minded United Church of Canada.
On the 40th anniversary of Hyde, a theological defense of reproductive justice
Many reproductive justice organizations have mobilized to bring increased attention to a policy which prohibits federal funding of abortion.
BUA president resigns to accept church position
René Maciel resigned as president of Baptist University of the Américas to become community life pastor at First Baptist Church of Woodway in Waco, Texas.
Inside the religious freedom report that’s making conservatives so mad
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights’s report suggests that some religious exemptions “significantly infringe” on civil rights.
Confederate flag images quietly removed from National Cathedral
Washington National Cathedral has quietly replaced its controversial panes of stained glass bearing the Confederate flag.
How decades of divorce helped erode religion
Two widely recognized trends in American society might have something to do with each other. Divorce rates climbed to the highest levels ever in the 1980s. And today Americans are rapidly becoming less religious.











