While Georgia’s Black faith leaders walk the line between their religious and political convictions in the last few days before the midterms, some have turned sharply to amplifying their criticisms of the state’s Republican Senate candidate, Herschel Walker.
Review: How to reclaim religion from the fundamentalists — if you can survive it
There is a video meme of the actress Jamie Lee Curtis describing what the “Halloween” movie franchise is all about: “trauma,” “rage and trauma,” “women’s trauma,” “family trauma,” “generational trauma,” she says over and over in a series of mashed-together clips. Despite its seriousness,…
It’s not un-Christian to require people to treat you in healthy ways
I’ve been studying the life of Jesus a lot. How he reacted when people hurt him deeply. How he handled the whiplash of being loved one minute and tossed aside the next. How he knew Judas was going to betray…
6 Midterm Election Races Where Religion Could Play A Major Factor
Politicians across the country are in the last stretch of campaigning as Americans prepare to cast the votes in the midterm elections on Nov. 8.
Calvin University board votes to keep faculty who disagree with stand on sex
Calvin University’s board of trustees has allowed a group of faculty members to dissent from a clause in a confession of faith that regards sex outside of heterosexual marriage as sinful, thus enabling them to continue to work at the…
Billy Graham Gets State-of-the-Art Archive
When he watched Billy Graham preach, David Bruce couldn’t help but think of history.
As a rabbi, he worked on Jewish-Catholic relations. Now the pope is knighting him.
Rabbi A. James Rudin, the longtime interreligious affairs director for the American Jewish Committee, will be conferred the prestigious Papal Knight of St. Gregory for his work on Catholic-Jewish relations, one of the few non-Catholics to receive the honor.
Review: The Messiah Confrontation
Christianity, as a religious movement, emerged out of first-century Judaism. It draws its foundations from first-century Judaism and the biblical tradition Christians call the Old Testament.
“They cannot survive without fear”: A heretic on leaving the evangelical church
“I was leaving the Garden, the evangelical church, and the only version of myself that I had ever known. I was choosing who I wanted to be — but I had no idea who she was.”
‘Brazil’s Trump’ Bolsonaro lost — but anti-democratic movements seldom accept electoral defeat
This Sunday Lula won the Brazilian presidential election by an extremely narrow margin, though Brazil’s future remains in the balance. Bolsonaro and his allies engaged in systematic militarized voter suppression on the day of the election, hoping to stage a…
How America’s conservative youth movement grew a powerhouse on the cult of rage
Polls show younger Americans are a lot more liberal than older Americans. But over the past decade, Republicans, aided in large part by major white evangelical donors, have invested heavily in building a well-organized conservative youth movement to lure young people —…
From atheist churches to finding healing in the ‘sacred flower of cannabis,’ spiritual but not religious Americans are finding new ways of pursuing meaning
According to a recent Pew Center report, American Christianity remains in a nearly three-decade decline. Responding as “none” or “unaffiliated” on religious surveys, people increasingly identify as humanists, atheists, agnostics, or simply spiritual. If current trends continue, by 2070 Christianity may no…