Mormons and evangelicals have historically been the religious groups most closely identified with the Republican Party, and they have long aligned on such culture war issues as same-sex marriage, gender roles, transgender rights and abortion. However, those shared political views do not translate to a theological alliance.
Fact checking ‘The Crown’: Queen Elizabeth’s faith and her close relationship with preacher Billy Graham
Several writers have pointed out how “The Crown” took more liberties with historical fact and chronology in its second season. So did the show take some liberties in depicting the queen’s faith and her relationship with the evangelist?
The 8 people Americans trust more than their pastor
Less than half of the country — just two out of every five Americans — believe clergy are honest and have high ethical standards, a recent Gallup poll found.
Christians are at risk of being driven out of the Holy Land
The Christian understanding of holy places is that all people have claims to the sanctity of their holy places, because holiness is a divine characteristic, not a human one. No party should ever be able to make an exclusive claim over a holy place — in this case, over the holy city of Jerusalem.
Muslims may become America’s second-largest religious group by 2040, Pew reports
Despite American Muslims’ fast rate of growth, they will continue to be a religious minority in an overwhelmingly Christian country. In 2014 Christians made up a whopping 70.6 percent of the U.S. adult population, while non-Christian faiths, including Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and others, only made up about 5.9 percent.
The NRA’s assault on Christian faith and practice
How might members of the body of Christ think more faithfully about guns and gun violence in light of Christian peculiarity, of the Kingdom of God?
Being evangelical means never having to say you’re sorry
Respectable evangelicals have been defining away their embarrassing spiritual kin for a century, at least.
Largest group of Mennonite churches leaves denomination
The Lancaster Mennonite Conference, the largest group of Mennonite congregations in the U.S., has officially separated from the broader Mennonite community after a long-term disagreement over sexuality and the church.
FEMA: Churches flooded by Harvey eligible for federal assistance
The agency has revised its guidelines due to last year’s biggest Supreme Court religious freedom case.