Churchgoers, preachers and law enforcement officers from across Southern California gathered for a church security seminar in Huntington Beach hosted by the California Rifle & Pistol Association, which delivered a warning: Faith alone will not protect you in a house of God.
Meditation on Israel, Palestine, and the calculus of power
When you find yourself in a hole, the first thing you do is stop digging. And I know, without a shadow of a doubt, that the dominant narrative in American political culture is not only shortsighted but also complicit with Israel’s brutal occupation of Palestine’s population.
‘Elitist den of hate’: Silicon Valley pastor decries hypocrisy of area’s rich liberals
Gregory Stevens resigns after tweets about Palo Alto, slamming tech industry greed and empty social justice promises.
Fuller Theological Seminary leaving Pasadena and putting campus up for sale
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.