Members of the Congressional Freethought Caucus, a group which advocates advocate for separation of church and state, and other House Democrats are speaking out against Speaker Mike Johnson’s sponsorship of a controversial pastor as a guest chaplain and accusing Johnson…
How Contemporary Christian Music Explains American Christianity
A friend and I were talking once about the first concerts we ever attended. His was Van Halen; mine was Amy Grant.
African Methodist Episcopal Church leaders call for halt to all US funding of Israel
The African Methodist Episcopal Church’s top officials have called for the U.S. government to halt all its funding of Israel, citing the deaths of tens of thousands of Palestinians in the Hamas-Israel war.
Fumbling Prophecy
On Sunday (Feb. 11), Mecole Hardman caught a pass from Patrick Mahomes and then turned and stepped into the end zone to give the Kansas City Chiefs their third Super Bowl victory in five years.
As Israel-Hamas War Rages On, Students In Ohio Revived A Kosher-Halal Dining Co-Op
Founded more than half a century ago as student-run dining cooperative, Oberlin College’s kosher co-op morphed into a kosher-halal co-op in 1995, a place where Jewish and Muslim students cooked and ate together.
Turkey will stop sending imams to German mosques – here’s why this matters
For decades, the Turkish government has sent imams to work in mosques across Germany. But the German Ministry of the Interior recently announced that it had reached an agreement with the Turkish government to put an end to the practice.
Catholic bishops in Mexico say they negotiated for possible peace accord with drug cartel leaders
Four Roman Catholic bishops met with Mexican drug cartel bosses in a bid to negotiate a possible peace accord, one of the bishops said, and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Thursday he approves of such talks.
Republican opposition to Israel aid is the latest headache for the pro-Israel community
Since Oct. 7, a growing number of Democrats have called for a ceasefire in Gaza, harshly criticized Israel or refused to send it more money.
Why Evangelicals Aren’t Afraid of Being Outnumbered by Nones
With 28 percent of Americans saying they don’t belong to a religious tradition, the “nones” now outnumber any single faith group in the US, according to a Pew Research Center study released last month.