The years that women’s church attendance began to decline are the very years when religious leaders in the Catholic Church and the evangelical movement fused religion with the culture wars.
Honest to God
How can we talk about orthodoxy or orthopraxy when best and brightest pastors have too much integrity to lie to get the approval they need to serve?
Baylor University declines comment on reports of president’s firing
Baylor University declined to comment on reports on Tuesday that President Kenneth Starr, the former independent counsel charged with investigating Bill Clinton, has been fired over sexual abuse scandals there.
Texas faith leaders foster uncomfortable-but-needed transgender conversation
Recent commentary by two conservative North Texas men of faith has emboldened us to believe that generous and compassionate debate can occur around the transgender issue.
Kenneth Starr reportedly fired as Baylor president amid football team sexual assault scandal
Baylor President and Chancellor Kenneth Starr, best known for his investigation of the Clinton administration, has been fired by the Board of Regents in the wake of a sexual assault scandal involving the school and its football team.
Jimmy Carter, seeing resurgence of racism, plans Baptist conference for unitybng
Former President Carter, who has long put religion and racial reconciliation at the center of his life, aims to heal a racial divide among Baptists and help the country soothe rifts he believes are getting worse.
If it does, then it is
When I quit my job as a pastor eight months ago, I had very different expectations as to how my time as an unprofessionally religious grocery clerk would unfold.
GOP senator’s dying wish was to apologize to Muslims on behalf of his party for Trump
As former Utah senator Bob Bennett lay dying this spring, the staunchly conservative lawmaker voiced a final, unexpected wish: he wanted to apologize to Muslims for Donald Trump.
Annual report shows continued toll of clergy sex abuse crisis
The Catholic church paid $153 million in the U.S. last year to settle lawsuits, and fielded hundreds of new accusations, as fallout continued from the clergy sex abuse scandal exposed in the early 2000s, a new report says.
Pastor writes to dispel embedded misconceptions about transgender people
As churches seek understanding about the LGBT community, a Dallas pastor wrote a blog post sharing seven things he learned about transgender people. Rachel Martin speaks with Pastor Mark Wingfield.
Catholic archdiocese to offer 12 weeks of paid parental leave
The move is almost unheard of in U.S. Catholic dioceses and reflects a new effort to put the church’s money where its mission is.
Amid a fiery debate, this Dallas pastor wants to learn about transgender people
A week ago, Mark Wingfield wrote a viral blog post for Baptist News Global titled “Seven Things I’m Learning About Transgender Persons.” While conservatives have railed against school restroom policies for transgender students, Wingfield took a different tack.