A Baptist preacher has become the unlikely leader of a social media movement that’s inspired Zimbabweans to protest against their authoritarian ruler and the collapsed economy.
Birmingham 16th Street Baptist Church bomber denied parole
Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr. was convicted in 2001 of murdering Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, all 14, and Denise McNair, 11, and sentenced to life in prison.
Governing God’s house: How 500 churches keep from collapsing
First ECFA survey of church governance trends reveals which boards are most effective.
Americans prefer to talk about politics rather than God
Politics trumps God for most Americans when it comes to conversations with their friends.
Pope Francis institutes commission to study female deacons
Pope Francis has created a commission to study the possibility of allowing women to serve as deacons in the Catholic church.
So you’re thinking of voting for a pro-choice candidate …
Knowing many of my pro-life friends feel torn between an unpopular but highly qualified pro-choice candidate in Hillary Clinton and an incompetent narcissist who poses a unique threat to American democracy in Donald Trump, I’d like to make a proposal.
Pope Francis disagrees with identifying Islam as violent
“There are violent Catholics.” said Pope Francis. “If I speak of Islamic violence, I must speak of Catholic violence.”
Goodbye, God gap: Trump and Clinton have churchgoers unusually split
In previous U.S. elections, polls consistently showed that a person’s level of religiosity was one of the biggest predictors in how they would vote. That correlation appears to be weakening.
Americans who’d never heard of the Rev. William Barber won’t be able to forget him after last week
The leader of North Carolina’s Moral Monday movement has been calling for a moral revival — similar to the “revolution of values” of Martin Luther King Jr. — and he distilled that message in a barn-burning 10-minute speech at the DNC.