Despite American Muslims’ fast rate of growth, they will continue to be a religious minority in an overwhelmingly Christian country. In 2014 Christians made up a whopping 70.6 percent of the U.S. adult population, while non-Christian faiths, including Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and others, only made up about 5.9 percent.
The NRA’s assault on Christian faith and practice
How might members of the body of Christ think more faithfully about guns and gun violence in light of Christian peculiarity, of the Kingdom of God?
Being evangelical means never having to say you’re sorry
Respectable evangelicals have been defining away their embarrassing spiritual kin for a century, at least.
Largest group of Mennonite churches leaves denomination
The Lancaster Mennonite Conference, the largest group of Mennonite congregations in the U.S., has officially separated from the broader Mennonite community after a long-term disagreement over sexuality and the church.
FEMA: Churches flooded by Harvey eligible for federal assistance
The agency has revised its guidelines due to last year’s biggest Supreme Court religious freedom case.
Dear Timothy Keller: The ‘Evangelical’ problem isn’t pollsters
Rather than acknowledge that there may be good reasons for white conservative evangelical leaders to listen and think about the substance of the simmering internal and external critiques, Keller shifts the blame and sets his sights on pollsters instead.
Egypt says Muslims who die defending churches are martyrs. One just did.
A Cairo attack kills eight Christians and one Muslim, after an Islamic authority declares it a national duty to protect Copts from terrorism.
Why you should make an anti-resolution list (and what to put on it)
Turns out this is actually the worst time of the year to set new goals. Here’s how to reframe your grand aspirations into something more attainable.
RNS Best of 2017: Women bloggers spawn an evangelical ‘crisis of authority’
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. But has that created what the Rev. Tish Harrison Warren called…