Fuller is acquiring downtown land in the eastern San Gabriel Valley city of Pomona where it will build a more accessible campus with lower surrounding housing costs, acting provost Mari Clements said Tuesday.
Pastors, not politicians, turned Dixie Republican
Southern religious institutions would lead a wave of political activism that helped keep white nationalism alive inside an increasingly unfriendly national climate. No one played as much of a role in turning the South red as the leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention.
The Jesuit priest quoted in the royal wedding sermon also left a legacy of eugenics and racism
It seems indisputable that the mature formulations of some of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s most famous ideas — e.g., the Noosphere, the Omega Point, the divinization of the species — rest upon philosophies infused with conceptions of eugenics, racial superiority, sterilization, and limitless science.
Jimmy Carter gently jabs Trump at Liberty commencement
Former President Jimmy Carter took a gentle poke at President Donald Trump at the start of a commencement address to graduates of Liberty University in Virginia.
Is Alcoholics Anonymous a religion?
While AA presents itself to the public as a mere program of recovery from alcoholism, it’s actually best thought of as a particular moral community, offering a comprehensive conception of how one ought to live one’s life.
How smaller congregations are challenging the system to ‘go solar’
Across the country, churches, synagogues and mosques have become increasingly conscious of their moral obligation to care for the environment. Many are stepping up their environmental activism by investing in renewable energy and particularly solar panels. But the speed with which they take on solar panels has much to do with economics.
To my fellow evangelicals: What you’re cheering in Jerusalem is shameful
It’s shameful, not only because they use their theology to make the moving of the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem a matter of “eternal” significance, but also because they refuse to hold the Netanyahu government accountable for Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, some of whom are themselves evangelical Christians.
On creating a new politics with spiritual and intellectual integrity
As climate change threatens our very future, and economic inequality stokes dangerous social polarization, we are literally in a battle for our lives — one that can only be won in “sage mode” rather than “warrior mode.” We now need to show up at our wisest and best. And that only happens when the political and the spiritual are integrated.
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CBF grants bolster church-community connections
The Ministries Council of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship has awarded five grants totaling $25,000 to CBF churches to help support projects to build bridges between congregations and communities.