Karen Swallow Prior, a vocal presence in the Southern Baptist Convention, made national news this spring for questioning the leadership of one of her denomination’s most powerful men.
Critics find fodder in NC candidate’s sermons on women. He calls it a distraction.
As a Southern Baptist minister for over three decades, Mark Harris has delivered thousands of sermons. Now, as a candidate for Congress, he’s under fire for past comments, particularly about women and gay people.
The Baptists and the yogis join to fight a pipeline
The choice to resist the 600-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline has put a pastor and his congregation in step with an unlikely group of allies.
Is a cross always religious?
The Supreme Court could answer a brainteaser next term if it agrees to hear a case centered on a 93-year-old cross: When is a Christian cross not Christian?
Satanic Temple’s Baphomet raises hell over religious freedom in Arkansas
The goat-headed creature took on the Ten Commandments monument at a rally in Little Rock.
Dems need more faith, episode LXXI: The Beer Caucus proposal
The ‘Dems ignore faith’ narrative ignores the rise of the Nones. It’s as if it were 1954, and liberals were smarting over getting flanked by Ike on the ‘In God We Trust’ issue.
The Church of Trump
At the president’s rallies, his devotees find the relief of belonging — and something more, besides.
Priests molested 1,000 children in Pennsylvania, report says
Roughly 300 Roman Catholic priests in Pennsylvania molested more than 1,000 children — and possibly many more — since the 1940s, according to a sweeping state grand jury report released Tuesday that accused senior church officials of systematically covering up…
Evangelical purity culture taught me to rationalize my sexual assault
Evangelicals and exvangelicals — those who no longer identify with their religious pasts — are organizing to expose the ways purity culture creates a toxic environment that enables abuse and assault.