Don’t call First Nations Kitchen a soup line. Yes, it serves dinners to those who can’t afford them. But it is run by indigenous people for indigenous people and features a menu of the ancestral foods of indigenous people.
Church of Sweden to stop referring to God as ‘he’ or ‘Lord’
The head of the largest Swedish Christian church says God is beyond human gender determination.
Religion scholars turn activist in the shadow of Trump
Alarm about Trump’s presidency — and the anti-intellectual forces several scholars say he has empowered — pervaded the annual joint meeting of the American Academy of Religion and the Society for Biblical Literature, which ended Nov. 21.
Christianity is political. But America’s politically active Christians seem to be forgetting that.
Some appear to be open to establishing a pattern whereby even egregious moral failure is a price worth paying for political and cultural power; one need not seek actual goodness, but only not to exceed the badness of one’s opponents.
Two Texas churches, linked by tragedy amid the pews
Baptist churches in the Texas towns of Daingerfield and Sutherland Springs have become sister congregations, linked by eerily similar attacks 37 years apart.
Christian support for Roy Moore ‘looks like hypocrisy to the outside world’
Recent allegations against the aspiring Alabama senator fit a long and complicated history of religious debates about sex.
GOP ‘war’ on Johnson Amendment turns serious
When last we visited Republican meddling with the Johnson Amendment, it was (according to me) much ado about very little. With passage of the tax bill in the House of Representatives, it has turned into something serious.
Salvator Mundi went for $450m. But you can have the real thing for free
Atheists assert that Christians equate being good with religious faith. Thus when a Christian behaves badly, others cry: “Call yourself a Christian?” But this is wrongheaded. Any criticism of Christianity must surely come from the other direction.
Two accidentally shot in church while discussing church shootings
A man accidentally shot himself and his wife at a Methodist church in east Tennessee on Thursday while he was showing off his gun during a discussion on recent church shootings, police said.
Museum of the Bible, built by Hobby Lobby owner, opens in D.C.
It is an ambitious attempt to appeal simultaneously to people of deep faith and no faith, and to stand out amid the impressive constellation of museums in Washington.
Pope’s trip to Burma comes amid ‘textbook example of ethnic cleansing’
When Pope Francis visits Burma, also known as Myanmar, later this month, his visit will come at one of the most contentious periods of the country’s history.
For the last five months, pastor Jose Chicas has been hiding from ICE inside a N.C. religious center
Chicas is undocumented, and since late June, Durham’s School for Conversion, a religious education center on the property of St. John’s Missionary Baptist Church, has provided him with cover from Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.