The nervousness over Christmas, or even over expressing religious belief, is an absurd expression of a real void at the heart of soulless technocracy.
Seminaries start Black Lives Matter courses
As more African-Americans are killed at the hands of police, seminaries have begun to engage with the movement and investigate how their theology can be enlisted to improve race relations.
Opposition to assisted suicide dies out
Most Americans, including 4 in 10 evangelicals, want doctors to help terminally ill patients end their lives.
Jury picked, opening statements set in church slayings trial
Twelve jurors were chosen Wednesday to decide the death penalty trial of a white man who authorities say wanted to start a race war by killing nine black people in a South Carolina church.
2,000 years of Grinches
Hand-wringing over Christmas has been going on since the Christ child left the manger.
Israel refuses visa to theologian over boycott and divestment activism
Isabel Phiri, of the World Council of Churches, is the first foreigner denied entry specifically for involvement with the BDS movement.
Trump Administration will herald creationism and climate-change scepticism in schools, critics warn
Despite relatively few concrete policy decisions emerging from the president-elect’s camp, his appointments have raised fears about the future of science, technology and maths teaching.
At Liberty University, all sins are forgiven on the altar of football
There was grand news out of Lynchburg, Va., last week: Liberty University announced that it had hired Ian McCaw, a “godly man of excellent character,” as its athletic director.
Crosses symbolize determination
The crosses on our church lawn not only speak to the life-aborting tragedy of murder, but also to the conditions which goad a human being to choose this irreversible option.
2 Mississippi churches transcend racial barriers after arson
Three weeks after their church in the Mississippi Delta was mostly destroyed by arson and someone spray-painted “Vote Trump” outside, an African-American congregation has been welcomed into the church of its white neighbors.
Final goodbyes: Pastor embraces death on her own terms
Nancy Butler, founding pastor of the Riverfront Family Church in Hartford, Conn., is in the final stage of Lou Gehrig’s disease. There was one thing the disease was not going to take from her: the right time to die.
Why famed atheist Stephen Hawking is on a pontifical academy
Stephen Hawking’s visit to the Vatican this week has raised curiosity, with some asking what exactly the famed astrophysicist and self-proclaimed atheist was doing in the heart of the Catholic Church.