A top French court on Aug. 26 suspended a ban on full-body burkini swimsuits that has angered Muslims, feminists and civil liberties campaigners.
Atheists’ lawsuit is financial setback for National Baptist Convention
An atheist group’s lawsuit has halted plans to provide $65,000 in Kansas City taxpayer dollars for September’s National Baptist Convention in Kansas City.
The popular Bonhoeffer quote that isn’t in Bonhoeffer’s works
This may come as a shock to countless Twitter and Facebook users who have posted a picture of Bonhoeffer with that quote attributed to him.
Is the ‘fear of missing out’ actually causing us to miss out?
We know that social media’s virtual reality threatens actual reality: eating away at the social ligaments of human bonding; offering more information and less perspective; fast-tracking rumor, gossip and fear-mongering.
How God as Trinity dissolves racism
The widespread Christian failure to understand and experience God as Trinity has provided a breeding ground for both implicit and explicit racism.
Top of the church shopper’s list: Strong preaching
Top-notch preaching most attracts people looking for a new place to pray. That’s the conclusion of a new Pew Research Center study which asked 5,000 people about their search for a new church or other house of worship.
Cultivating ministers
Many schools are partnering with congregations to address issues of food and justice. But Princeton may be the first to create a theological curriculum in the context of a farm with the aim of shaping students for ministry.
It’s just church
What if, instead of using the tired mathematics of budgets, buildings, and pew-butts to determine whether or not the Church is effective, we started judging the efficaciousness of a body of people charged with bringing heaven to earth?
The obsession with biblical literalism
A Christian theme park in Kentucky brings the ancient to life through a life-sized reconstruction of Noah’s Ark—but not without dipping into fiction.