After the United States military withdrew from Afghanistan in late summer of 2021, a wave of Afghan refugees began heading toward the San Francisco Bay Area, where Cooperative Baptist Fellowship field personnel Lita and Rick Sample prepared for them.
For Christians raised in ‘high-control’ settings, elections may trigger religious trauma
When Donald Trump won the 2016 election, for some, it wasn’t just a matter of political disappointment — it was spiritually shattering.
Record-Setting Betting Weighs on College Athletes
The odds are bringing little favor to college athletes, who are facing more pressure over their performance from bettors.
7 Anti-Zionist Jewish artists pull out of California Jewish museum’s exhibit to protest Israel
When the inaugural California Jewish Open exhibit opens at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco in June, the gallery walls will have several blank spaces where works of art were supposed to hang.
In 1877, a stained-glass window depicted Jesus as Black for the first time − a scholar of visual images unpacks its history and significance
A stained-glass window, donated in 1877 to a church in Rhode Island, shows Jesus as a dark-skinned man. Most Western depictions portrayed him as a European, with light skin and sometimes even with blue eyes. A Black Jesus at this time was…
Doing a Dukakis (but with Jesus) — Biden does not need to be more publicly Christian
There are many factors that may determine whether incumbent president Joe Biden wins reelection this November. Whether the very Catholic president is visibly “religious enough,” however, is absolutely not one of them.
New Vatican document condemns gender theory, surrogacy
In a new document on human dignity issued Monday (April 8), the Vatican’s department that guides Catholic doctrine reinforced the church’s opposition to abortion, surrogacy, gender theory and any attempt to change one’s sex.
Dawkins and ‘cultural Christianity’: what does it all mean?
Dawkins’ admiration for “cultural” Christianity is not new. What has changed is the dawning realisation of how much we have lost.
The fight against Hindu nationalism in the United States is multifaith, says a newly formed coalition
When the Rev. Peter Cook led a dozen fellow church leaders on a trip to India in 2018, most of them were turned away at the airport.