Why you should care about the Second Baptist Houston lawsuit

Churches and other faith groups collect tens of billions of dollars in donations each year. But not all of it ends up where it’s supposed to. About 1 in 10 Protestant churches has had someone embezzle funds.

The Hampton University Ministers’ Conference, while clearly having a stake in the national politics of the day — the invitation of then-Senator Barack Obama in 2007 shows this — has not focused on political conversation through the lens of black…

Even in the church, where marriage and families are celebrated—and, in many traditions, expected—female pastors are paid disproportionally smaller salaries if they’re married with kids, according to research published last month in the journal “Sociology of Religion.”

News that scientists for the first time successfully edited genes in human embryos created a stir this week.

Which is generally more often to blame if a person is poor: lack of effort on their own part, or difficult circumstances beyond their control?

The New York Times has exposed a new initiative of the U.S. Justice Department. At the apparent behest of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the Justice Department is recruiting and intends to hire lawyers to investigate whether affirmative action programs in…