White evangelicals are trading their moral core for anti-abortion gains. Time to rethink support for Trump, Republicans and policies that are inhumane.
Religious freedom advocate Charles Haynes: ‘It’s not a choice’
Charles Haynes, a First Amendment scholar, has spent more than two decades helping schools walk the line between religion and state and advocating for the rights of people of a range of faiths and no faith.
Unearthing the past: Furman reckons with its early leadership
While Richard Furman, the university’s namesake, is a controversial figure in the school’s history — he wrote a moral defense of slavery for the Southern Baptist Convention in 1823 — perhaps more cloaked in racist rhetoric was his son, James…
Clergywomen numbers increased significantly in two decades, sometimes equaling men
The share of women in the ranks of American clergy has doubled — and sometimes tripled — in some denominations over the last two decades, a new report shows.
A Jewish and Christian commentary on Luke’s gospel
Amy-Jill Levine and Ben Witherington’s dialogue is most illuminating when the co-authors disagree.
Brian McLaren urges churches to get in alignment
Churches must align themselves around spiritual formation and become “studios of love” as they face a time of significant change, author the Rev. Brian McLaren told Christian educators.
James Cone and the liberating spirit of blackness
In his final memoir, Cone’s testimony resounds.
Russian Orthodox Church severs links with Constantinople
In a major religious split, the Russian Orthodox Church has cut ties with the body seen as the spiritual authority of the world’s Orthodox Christians.
Bill Coates resigned in August due to alleged sexual misconduct, church reports
The Rev. Bill Coates resigned as pastor of First Baptist Church in Gainesville in August following an accusation of sexual misconduct, according to a letter emailed to the congregation from church leaders on Monday, Oct. 15.