On the other side of getting paid to pray, I’ve found church has typically very little to do with how middle class white people desperately organize themselves in small groups to have stifled and awkward conversation about the Biblical text,…
Pope asks Protestants for forgiveness for persecution
Trump gets official and unofficial endorsements from two leading evangelicals
Unprofessional Christianity V: Doing
You are not a pretend church!
Trinity Baptist Church in Lebanon, New Hampshire, had twelve people in worship yesterday. Ten adults and two children. We sang, we prayed, we greeted one another. They listened to my sermon. We all stayed for lunch, then gathered for another…
New Emanuel AME pastor: ‘Our best days are in front of us’
In this country, literally no young Christians believe that God created the Earth
Trump visits Iowa church: gets a lesson in humility
Pope Francis meets Iran’s president to boost nuke deal, Mideast peace
Grand jury indicts 2 behind Planned Parenthood videos
The U.S. circus of religious nationalism
If Jesus, Martin Luther King Jr. and Mother Teresa were sitting at a table talking U.S. politics, would Donald Trump fit in? Or would he hijack the conversation to persuade them that he is uniquely qualified to “make America great…
7 types of evangelicals — and how they’ll affect 2016
Like many political axioms, though, it papers over a complex reality. But evangelicals rarely vote as a bloc, especially in the primaries. They disagree not only on the candidates but also on more basic principles like how active Christians should…