Jubilee Baptist is a quasi-socialist, anti-racist, LGBTQ-affirming church conducting a bold experiment: focusing on debt, work, and freedom from oppression instead of fear and moralism.
Pastor who says Jews are going to Hell speaks at Trump’s Hanukkah party
Robert Jeffress has also made inflammatory comments about Muslims, Mormons and Hindus.
American Jews are terrified
A deadly shooting at a kosher grocery store in New Jersey is the latest manifestation of anti-Semitic violence that doesn’t fit in a neat, ideological box.
J.J. Culver, brother of NBA player Jarrett Culver, scored 100 points in a game for Wayland Baptist
The senior guard scored 100 in a 124-60 win over Southwestern Adventist University on Tuesday, becoming the second player in NAIA history to score at least 100 points in a game.
Behind the rise of evangelical women ‘influencers’
The Southern Baptist Convention is, like many institutions, facing an abuse crisis. But if you took to social media any time in 2019, you might think the real SBC crisis is figuring out whether Beth Moore is “teaching,” “speaking,” or…
Muhammad appears in top 10 baby name list for the first time
The popular name for baby boys is a way for Muslim families to honor Islam’s final prophet, the Prophet Muhammad.
How the ‘extreme abstinence’ of the purity movement created a sense of shame in evangelical women
In purity culture, a woman’s entire purpose is to appeal to a godly young man whom she can serve as a wife in whatever work God has called him to do. The woman’s sexual purity is what is of most…
Palestinians in Bethlehem look beyond religious tourism
For decades, the people of Bethlehem have watched tour buses drive up to the Church of the Nativity, disgorge their passengers for a few hours at the traditional birthplace of Jesus, and then return to Israel. But in recent years…
SMU sued for severing ties with church
Church body files suit after Southern Methodist amended its governance documents to separate itself from church authority. The move follows actions by the United Methodist Church to strengthen prohibitions on same-sex marriage.