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...
If you’re reading this story on the new laptop or tablet or phone you just got for Christmas, be thankful. But don’t forget also to be grateful, which, many spiritual leaders say, is not necessarily the same thing.
To parody low income, impoverished people politically, ecclesiastically, theologically or pragmatically is to undermine or downright ignore the almost relentless concern offered them by the purported Good News of Christ’s gospel, especially at the season of Advent.
The Christmas season seems to bring out the worst (or most effective) in manipulative advertisements. These are seductive ways of viewing the world, of thinking of life, and of focusing on me.
Congregational and worship consultants are practically guaranteed job security in the coming decades thanks to the coming of Generation Z, aka Gen Z. Experts anticipate that churches which have long used coaches, books and seminars just to tread water with Millennials will be even more challenged by that up-and-coming group whose older members are just reaching college age.
A theology that that comforts the child trafficker but not the child, the exploiter but not the exploited, the sexual predator but not the victim, the rapist but not the raped, the con artist but not the conned is harmful to a world full of trafficked children, exploited people, and victims of assault and abuse.
Many factors have shaped white American Christianity into what it is today. But keeps us away from the core truths of our faith, I suspect, is this: Christians today seem governed by fear.
A Southern Baptist megachurch pastor says President Donald Trump was right to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel because the Bible tells him so.
A historically black college with ties to a state Cooperative Baptist Fellowship organization is losing its president after a little more than a year.
Allegiance to Jesus’ kind of Kingdom will inevitably cause division with those who have different priorities. Peacemakers get in the way of warmongers. Justice hinders the power-brokers. Mercy impedes revenge.
Leather-jacketed motorcycle riders revved their bikes in their own tribute as they joined a large throng of family and friends who remembered a Kentucky lawmaker who killed himself a day after vehemently denying accusations of sexually assaulting a teenage girl.
It’s surprising the housing allowance rule has lasted as long as it has. The significant benefit applies to clergy and no one else — to the tune of some $700 to $800 million in lost tax revenue annually.
Overtures by U.S. evangelicals to Arab churches are being tested by Trump’s Jerusalem decision.
