For six years, two bloggers at a website called The Elephant’s Debt have raised questions about an influential evangelical pastor and his Chicago-area megachurch, criticizing his leadership style and the church’s finances.
No end in sight: White evangelicals stick with Trump’s white nationalist GOP
The white nationalism of the Tea Party and Trump represents an “authentic” expression of the main spiritual current in American history, which is about subjugation and supremacy and greed.
Christian woman acquitted of blasphemy freed in Pakistan
A Christian woman acquitted after eight years on death row in Pakistan for blasphemy was released but her whereabouts in Islamabad on Thursday remained a closely guarded secret in the wake of demands by radical Islamists that she be publicly…
White House expands birth control exemptions for employers with religious objections
The rules counter the efforts by the Obama administration to provide access to free contraception through a provision of the Affordable Care Act. Those efforts were opposed by many critics of the previous administration who now provide a base of…
Fumbling my way into contemplative prayer
I’ve been trying to follow Thomas Keating’s advice: learn to be silent with God.
CCDA president Noel Castellanos resigns
Allegations of hostile leadership at community development ministry came to a head at last week’s Rooted conference.
Faith groups mount election turnout efforts that could help both parties
Waves of religious groups are mustering passionate get-out-the-vote efforts in the final hours before the heated midterm elections, with clergy pushing the faithful to the polls in ways that stand to aid both Republicans and Democrats.
Why the relationship between religion and politics is more complicated than you think
People like to believe their faith informs who and what they vote for, not the other way around.
Growing up in Westboro Baptist Church: We were ‘true believers,’ everyone else the enemy
My grandfather was Fred Phelps, who founded the notorious Westboro Baptist Church. This is what he taught us.