Texas is home to the largest Muslim population in the U.S. But for a new generation of leaders the challenge is to make sure their community feels welcome in their own backyard.
New GOP platform aims to make the Christian Right even more powerful
Among the new GOP platform’s highlights is a proposal to repeal a 50-year-old tax law that prohibits churches and other tax-exempt organizations from political organizing.
The ‘Garden of Eden’ becomes a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Iraq’s marshlands, which lie in the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, are believed to be the inspiration for the Bible’s Garden of Eden.
The mega-problem behind the ‘falls’ of megachurch pastors
Let’s be really honest with each other, were you really shocked that this happened?
United Methodist Church elects first openly gay bishop, in defiance of church rules
Karen Oliveto, senior pastor of Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco, was elected bishop of the church’s Western Division at a conference Friday night in Scottsdale, Arizona.
‘God break racism!’ Evangelicals on D.C. Mall pray for hope and reconciliation
Rappers and pastors, spoken word poets and authors appealed to thousands of evangelicals gathered around the Washington Monument to recommit to prayer and hope at a time of intense racial and political polarization.
With its flying hospital, this group is saving the world from blindness
Vision impairment that’s easy to fix in rich countries can be life sentences in most of the world. These volunteer doctors aim to change that.
America’s problem is not racial tension — It’s racism
America does not have a problem with racial tension. Racial tension is simply the fever indicating the disease. America has a problem with racism.
Standing as a family
There comes a time when enough is enough. When there seems like nothing else you can do, just stand, and stand we did — as a family.
White Conservative Christian America not going down without a fight
A vortex of new stories on Wednesday concerning the upcoming GOP convention, platform, and Trump coronation, placed together with forthcoming works about the rapid racial and demographic remapping of American Christianity (and American unbelief, for that matter), suggests that, if…
AME Church: Climate change disproportionately hurts blacks
Of Americans living near coal plants, 39 percent are people of color, and black children are four times as likely as their white counterparts to die from asthma.
The lasting power of ‘We Shall Overcome’
People have been trying to shout down “We Shall Overcome” for more than seven decades, and like those who sing it, the song has endured.