The leader of North Carolina’s Moral Monday movement has been calling for a moral revival — similar to the “revolution of values” of Martin Luther King Jr. — and he distilled that message in a barn-burning 10-minute speech at the DNC.
Can Hillary Clinton’s faith help her lead a fractured nation?
Although Clinton has confessed a certain reticence when it comes to “advertising” her faith, she has consistently testified to her Methodist faith over the course of her long career in politics.
A reporter was banned from a Trump-Pence rally yesterday. That should frighten you.
Here’s the thing: If we start banning citizens from attending public events for one of the two people who will be our next president, we are sliding down a slippery slope to a future reality that is a very, very…
Magdalene’s recovery
This week’s electoral history, together with a new position for Mary Magdalene, the Church’s first evangelist, align in a strategic deconstruction of any and every sort of submission other than to the Beloved’s presence, purpose and promise.
Tim Kaine’s journey on abortion rights
The ability of the Democratic vice presidential nominee, a Catholic, to speak openly about his personal opposition to abortion while respecting a woman’s right to choose could be a model for other politicians, says abortion rights activists.
Regents must open up for Baylor to thrive once again
The regents’ longstanding and lamentable flaw — their predisposition toward secrecy — will prolong Baylor’s agony.
Group sues Kansas City over Baptist convention
The lawsuit contends that using tax dollars to help Modest Miles Ministries Inc. prepare for the National Baptist Convention USA Inc. would unconstitutionally advance a religious purpose.
The divided soul of the Democratic Party
Faith is more evident — and accepted — at the party’s grass roots than in the treetops where power brokers call the shots. Did Wednesday night’s God-inflected speeches signal a change?
Engineering an enhanced human? The more religious you are, the less likely you’ll want to.
Most Americans are put off by the idea of using science to “enhance” human abilities — and these attitudes are strongly connected with people’s religiosity.
Fourth woman joins sexual assault lawsuit against Baylor
A fourth woman has joined a federal Title IX lawsuit against Baylor University, asserting she was gang-raped by some Baylor Bears football players in 2011.
The book ‘I Kissed Dating Goodbye’ told me to stay pure until marriage. I still have a stain on my heart.
On the surface, I am a purity-culture success story: I am a heterosexual woman, a virgin until marriage, now with two small children and a husband I deeply love. And yet, for me, the legacy of purity culture is not…
Tim LaHaye, evangelical legend behind ‘Left Behind’ series, dies at 90
LaHaye was a prominent Christian leader and successful megachurch pastor but best-known for “Left Behind,” the wildly popular series of novels imagining Jesus’ return to Earth in the modern era.










