Trump’s conservative Christian critics have lamented that fellow believers were sacrificing values and principles to support him. But they have also expressed regret that the Christian capitulation to Trump exposes painful truths about the Religious Right’s quest for power.
The high cost of popular evangelical Jen Hatmaker’s gay marriage comments
The backlash to both Hatmaker’s comments and to LifeWay’s decision reveals growing rancor in evangelical circles over same-sex relationships.
The new Evangelical moral minority
If the Southern Baptist church can’t be bigger, Russell Moore wants it to be better.
What’s scarier than a haunted house? At Judgement House, it’s eternal damnation.
A Halloween-time feature at evangelical churches all over the country, Judgement House aims to spook visitors as other haunted houses do during this time of year. But Judgement House aims to scare people for the sake of heaven.
How a new generation is changing evangelical Christianity
Evangelical Christianity, as we have known it, is changing. While old guard evangelical leaders are vocally supporting Republican nominee Donald Trump for president, there is a groundswell of opposition from within evangelicals.
Liberty University students want to be Christians — not Republicans
Evangelicals at the school are tired of politics — and the party that gave them Trump.
LifeWay stops selling Jen Hatmaker books over LGBT beliefs
One of evangelical women’s favorite authors loses her place in one of America’s largest Christian chains.
The meeting in the sanctuary and the meeting in the basement: Ministry to the ignored
Ministry in a local jail combined with an intensive educational program in addiction and recovery opened a minister’s eyes to the needs of an ignored population.
Christ’s burial place exposed for first time in centuries
Restorers working in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Israel uncover a stone slab venerated as the resting place of Jesus Christ.
Fetters & freedom
On Thomas Merton’s vision of transcendence through faith.
The Art of the Qur’an — landmark exhibit shows holy book as text and work of art
The Art of the Qur’an aims to introduce visitors to the Islamic holy book as both foundational sacred text — the divine message for Muslims, received by the Prophet Muhammad between 610 and 632 — and work of art.
Died: Jack Chick, cartoonist whose controversial tracts became cult hits
Chick distributed more than 500 million pamphlets, nicknamed “chicklets,” over five decades. His signature black-and-white panel comics warned against the dangers of everything from the occult to Family Guy.