On the eve of her religious denomination’s quadrennial meeting, Hillary Clinton wrote a letter to Jewish agency heads saying she opposes the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement targeting Israel that the United Methodist Church will consider.
Southern Baptists asked to endorse ban on public display of Confederate battle flag
America’s largest Protestant denomination, still overwhelmingly white and with roots in an early 19th-century dispute over slavery, may be asked this summer to endorse a ban on the public, government-sponsored display of the Confederate battle flag.
Don’t misread Russell Moore’s disavowal of ‘Christian Nation’ and anti-Trump stance
Republicans of all kinds — religious and political leaders alike — are faced with a difficult choice these days: they can either capitulate to Trump, do a delicate two-step trying to differentiate themselves from him, or reject him outright.
TV shows are finally ready to have a serious talk about religion
Two new television series are tackling head-on the subject that has long been considered taboo for TV — religion.
‘Biblical masculinity’ and ‘sanctified testosterone:’ why biblical manhood is idolatrous
Jason Allen, president of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, describes the need for “biblical manhood” for “anemic churches.” However, the notion of “biblical manhood” is idolatrous.
Private schools, painful secrets
More than 200 victims. At least 67 private schools in New England — some with faith ties. This is the story of hundreds of students sexually abused by staffers, and emerging from decades of silence today.
The real reason the Religious Right opposes trans equality. (It isn’t bathroom predators.)
We are stuck at this unproductive impasse, fixating on bathrooms, arguing about a threat that both sides know is nonexistent.
Ewan McGregor explores the humanness of Jesus
“Daunting” is one word Ewan McGregor used about stepping into the role of Jesus in the new film “Last Days in the Desert.”
What happened to the Jesus People?
Evangelicalism has been less like a one-way street leading to the right, and more like a street with two-way traffic, carrying many people leftward.
Who owns a pastor’s body?
The roots of inappropriate comments and congregational entitlement.
Are evangelical churches abandoning the working class?
As cycles of unemployment, poverty and death have set in on many working class communities across America, are churches overlooking their responsibilities to help alleviate the pain and suffering of plighted working class families?
As priceless Israeli artifacts head to a controversial DC Bible museum, some wonder why
Israel’s Antiquities Authority is making some of the holy land’s most precious ancient finds available to a vast evangelical institution set to open next year just off Washington’s National Mall. But whose aims will the exhibit serve?