Tucker Carlson is calling for Mike Huckabee to be fired as U.S. ambassador to Israel, after Huckabee did not defend a U.S. Congressman violently detained by Israeli settlers. This is the second event in a few days where Israeli settlers...
Statistics suggest that 1 in 8 couples face infertility each year. What do they say about the Mother’s Day holiday? Many couples say their faith community is the least safe place when it comes to their baby-making woes.
Please submit transitions — including staff changes, ordinations, anniversaries or deaths — to Barbara Francis. This page will be updated weekly. STAFF CHANGES Judy Bryant, to Brookwood Baptist, Birmingham, Ala., as minister to children and their families. Lawrence Childs Jr., to…
In 18 nations across Central and Eastern Europe, religion is now essential to national identity.
Nuns have always been popular figures in the cultural imagination. Yet not since the era of Fräulein Maria and the von Trapps have we seen a pop-culture Nunnaissance like the one taking place right now.
Depression lies to me. It is relentless. It tells me I will always feel this way, that I’m not deserving of help, that I am a burden, a waste, that my life is thoroughly hopeless.
As we drive to my parents’ house, we see that the neighbors have a big sign in the yard. A normal yard sign in Mississippi is Congratulations Class of 2017 or Bitter Divorce Sale. I am suddenly self-conscious about our…
If there ever was a time when Christians shared a single, unified worldview rooted in scriptures and church, it’s over now. The Barna Group announced this week that it found only 17 percent of practicing Christians have an actual biblical…
The Religious Right’s mixed reaction to last week’s highly staged Rose Garden signing of an executive order on religious liberty might be a useful gauge of leaders’ level of cynicism—or their willingness to play along with Trump’s own cynical use…
A few years ago a commentator observed that while we evangelicals have a lot to say about judicial decisions, when it comes to choosing justices who have conservative religious views, the nod typically goes to Catholics because evangelicals lack the requisite…
How corruption scandals are driving young Christians away from megachurches and conservative politics.
There’s a social dynamic that is no stranger to history and seems especially at work in our country today, but is too seldom talked about. Let’s take a look at a few institutions. First, there are public schools. The fundamental…
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