Raised in an evangelical church she now describes as a “dumpster fire” of fundamentalist beliefs, Laura Anderson’s terror of hell kept her up at night as a 4-year-old. Her insomnia was less about hell itself and more about the fear…
It’s not the name it’s the theocratic vision — the New Apostolic Feformation’s PR problem
The rifts in the New Apostolic Reformation that emerged last year have erupted into a full-blown identity crisis. This is a crisis born, in part, of the movement’s desire to project a benign Christian image to distract from public scrutiny of its…
US government agrees to help restore sacred Native American site destroyed for Oregon road project
The U.S. government has agreed to help restore a sacred Native American site on the slopes of Oregon’s Mount Hood that was destroyed by highway construction, court documents show, capping more than 15 years of legal battles that went all…
A candidate sues New Jersey over its ‘so help me God’ pledge on a nominating petition
A New Jersey man who wants to run for Congress next year has sued the state over its requirement that candidates sign a nominating petition including the affirmation “so help me God.”
Columbus Day celebrates a Christian doctrine that authorized centuries of violence — and continues to threaten American democracy
Of the 12 federal holidays, Columbus Day is one of only three celebrating a person. Among that trinity, which includes the celebrations of the births of George Washington and Martin Luther King Jr., it remains peculiar.
Israeli police arrest suspects for spitting near Christian pilgrims and churches in Jerusalem
Israeli police said Wednesday they arrested several people suspected of spitting in the direction of Christian pilgrims and churches in Jerusalem this week as religious tensions flared anew in the contested capital that the three Abrahamic faiths consider holy.
Journalists need to ask: Are emerging Catholic synod fights about ‘ideology’ or ‘doctrine’?
The Synod on Synodality is here and there are many, many angles for journalists to pursue.
Green Card Change Leaves Thousands of Foreign-Born Pastors in Limbo
Albert Oliveira was excited. He had come to the US from Brazil in 2010 on a student visa, graduated from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, began pastoring a growing church, married, and started a family.
The white evangelical march toward climate disaster
The most striking — and disturbing — finding of the Public Religion Research Institute’s new climate change survey is that while the proportion of all Americans who consider climate change a crisis has risen 16% since 2014, among white evangelicals it has…