Senator Lindsey Graham is dead at 71. He died the way he lived — in motion, at full throttle, pressing some cause or another into the next news cycle. He had just returned from Ukraine, where he met with President...
A progressive Christian author and activist who asked to pray with Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. while visiting Lynchburg, Va., for this weekend’s “Red Letter Revival” got an answer – set foot on campus, and you will go to…
Not unlike King’s assassination, in killing Jesus, many religious leaders of the day believed they were silencing someone who challenged their power and character.
If Baptist churches decry the scourge of gun violence, speak boldly against unjust travel bans, stand with immigrants against thinly-veiled bigoted rhetoric from the highest levels of power, but have nothing to say of the more than 650,000 girls and boys created by God with divine purpose who, each year, see their lives cut short in the womb, our ethic is blown wide open for a watching world to see.
Rachael Denhollander, the first woman to publicly accuse former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar of sexual abuse, visited Harvard Thursday to speak about how she seeks to live with both justice and forgiveness.
Mitch Randall, executive director of the Baptist Center for Ethics and former pastor of NorthHaven Church in Norman, Okla., helped organize the “Clergy Day of Prayer and Action” to show support for public school teachers and public education.
A Southern Baptist church in southwest Georgia has been expelled from its local association for what local media reports portray as unrepentant racism.
I’m surprised to be at the Comedy Cellar because — and I know how this sounds — I’m a minister. Saying that you’re a minister shuts down conversations with barbers, waitresses and the person sitting next to you on the plane. That last one is helpful.
If Christianity is to be a force for good in the world by helping to heal our deep psychic, personal brokenness, to restore estranged relationships often marked by betrayal and contempt, to transform us into more loving, compassionate persons who care for others, then Western Christianity, and American Christianity in particular, must undergo a new reformation.
A group of Christians often labeled as “progressive evangelicals” will hold a revival — in Lynchburg, Va., a center of conservative Christianity — designed to reconnect that old-time religion with concern and activism for social justice.
Art shapes faith and faith shapes art at Convergence, a combination church and arts center that makes space for the creative exploration that artists crave and the church needs.
William Barber, a pastor and political leader in North Carolina, believes mere remembrance is not enough.
It isn’t gimmicks but honesty that’s needed to heal the growing rift between young people and the church.
