Mariam is sipping on a juice box while sitting on the front steps outside a hotel not far from the Grand Mosque in this holiest of cities for Muslims. Mariam first says she is 10 years old, but then decides…
Health Care Sharing Ministry Sharity Leaves 10K Families with Millions in Unpaid Bills
Around 10,000 families whose faith led them to “share in one another’s medical expense burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ” have instead ended up with unpaid bills totaling over $50 million after their health care sharing ministry shut…
The scientific meltdown over a controversial discovery of ‘biblical Sodom’
What everyone agrees on is that something unusual happened at Tall el-Hammam, an ancient settlement near the Dead Sea.
Amid Russia’s Invasion Of Ukraine, Putin Demands Jerusalem Church As Israel Promised
As Russia’s two-month-old invasion of neighboring Ukraine continues, Russian President Vladimir Putin is demanding that Israel grant the Kremlin control of a Russian Orthodox church named after the medieval Kievan Rus prince Alexander Nevsky in Jerusalem’s Christian quarter — as…
Former state Sen. Wendy Davis challenges Texas abortion law in court
Former Texas State Sen. Wendy Davis, best known for her 13-hour filibuster of a 2013 abortion bill, has filed a federal lawsuit challenging Texas’ recent abortion law. The suit claims the law is “blatantly unconstitutional” and written to “make a mockery of the…
3 Black churches rebuilding in Louisiana after 2019 arson
Three years after an arsonist torched three small Black Baptist churches in rural Louisiana, rebuilding is well under way.
The great church property flip: Florida pastors seek salvation in real estate
In a gray sharkskin suit and aviator sunglasses, Pastor Christopher Benek stands on a patch of astroturf at the edge of the First Miami Presbyterian church parking lot. “Here’s the thing,” he says. “Right now this is a parking lot.”
Liberal Protestants and the Polarization of the U.S.
Early in the twentieth century, a subset of American Protestants began to tour the globe. They also built international NGOs and created new connections with their fellow believers in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. In the process, these ecumenical…
Parsing Pacifism: Ukraine’s Mennonite Heritage Shapes Evangelical Responses to Russia
Ukrainian Baptists were once practical pacifists.
‘How Pentecostal Christianity is taking over the world’: an interview with author Elle Hardy
Australian-born journalist Elle Hardy’s exposé of global Pentecostalism, released in November by an independent UK publisher, didn’t receive a tremendous amount of attention in the United States—one of the nations where the movement itself has flourished.
Analysis: Texas’ new standard is abortions for those who can afford to leave Texas
Texas hasn’t outlawed abortion for everyone — just for those who can’t afford to travel to other states and countries where the decision about whether to have a child is left to the person who’s pregnant.
Climate Report Notes Emissions Rise, Highlights Key Contributors
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its Sixth Assessment Report on April 4, detailing the status of climate change mitigation progress globally.