About 10 miles from Johnson Space Center, a Houston-area church takes a moment during Wednesday Bible studies and Sunday evening services to pray for two members who cannot be there.
Why are churches arming themselves?
Church bulletins don’t usually set passions aflame, but last month, an ad in the newsletter of The Ascension Catholic Church in Chesterfield, Missouri, did just that.
Department of Justice Files Statement in Support of Church Food Pantry Ministry
The Department of Justice has expressed an interest in an Arizona case involving a church that has been dealing with alleged zoning code violations for a benevolence food pantry it has operated for nearly 25 years.
Josh Shapiro won’t be the veep. What are Jews saying?
My mother, of blessed memory, did not meditate, Nevertheless, she had a mantra — and she was not alone. Something was either “good for the Jews” or “bad for the Jews.”
No drinking and only Christian music during Sunday Gospel Hour at Nashville’s most iconic honky tonk
Robert’s Western World is known as Nashville’s most authentic honky tonk and synonymous with country music. But for an hour on Sundays, no one can drink alcohol; everyone must listen to Christian music.
Gordon College Loses Religious Liberty Case for Loan Forgiveness
Gordon College could be on the hook to repay $7 million of COVID-19 relief funds. A federal court rejected eight of the evangelical school’s arguments that it should be eligible for loan forgiveness.
The French baron who revived the Olympics believed they were more than sport – they were a religion of perfection and peace
Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympics, always envisioned the Games as much more than the sum of their parts. “Olympism,” as he coined it, was a new type of religion – one shorn of gods, yet transcendent all the…
Minnesota’s Jews celebrate as their ‘mensch’ Gov. Tim Walz enters the national spotlight
On Oct. 9, as the toll of Hamas’ attack on Israel was still being tallied, Tim Walz stood before a room of Jewish Minnesotans and condemned the invasion of two days earlier.
Rabbis inundated with questions from Israeli soldiers on Jewish laws of war
When Rabbi Michael J. Broyde’s phone rings these days, it may be a fellow scholar wanting an interpretation of Torah or a congregant at his Atlanta synagogue looking to discuss day-school fundraising. But since some half-million Israelis have been called…