NFL players have kneeled during the national anthem and taken stands to protest social injustice across the United States.
Rachel Held Evans’ father on his daughter’s final days and the ongoing impact of her life
Peter Held is sipping coffee on the deck of the house his daughter had built but never lived in. After agonizing over whether or not to complete the dream home they had designed together, her widowed husband and their children…
KC Baptist Church Embraces LGBTQ+ People
For the past two years, members at Holmeswood Baptist Church in Kansas City, Missouri, talked about issues of human sexuality and gender identity. Now the congregation has decided to welcome individuals who are LGBTQ+ into the full life of the church.
In a moment of turmoil, US Catholic bishops meet virtually
Catholic bishops of the United States open a national meeting Monday under dramatic circumstances.
Court weighs challenge to Colorado discrimination law
A Colorado web designer should not have to create wedding websites for same-sex couples under the state’s anti-discrimination law because it would amount to forced speech that violates her religious beliefs, a lawyer told an appeals court Monday.
How law-and-order evangelicals helped shape today’s criminal justice system
When it comes to mass incarceration, American evangelicals are complicated. So says Aaron Griffith in his new book, “God’s Law and Order: The Politics of Punishment in Evangelical America.”
Vatican calling: Pope congratulates Joe Biden on election
It’s not exactly divine intervention, but even the pope considers the U.S. presidential race over.
Rev. Raphael Warnock considers vote sacred as pastor and Senate candidate
Many clergy, having risen to occupy the pulpit once held by Martin Luther King Jr. and his father, “Daddy King,” might consider their careers made and not look beyond the Kings’ historic, 6,000-member Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. Many a…
Polish bishops defend John Paul II after McCarrick report
Polish bishops defended St. John Paul II on Friday against evidence that he rejected reports that ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick slept with his seminarians, seeking to salvage a papal legacy that has been badly tarnished by his inaction on clergy sexual…