In a year of faith-talking Democrats, a Muslim candidate speaks up

An undisclosed number of full-time employees of the South Carolina Baptist Convention may elect to accept a voluntary early retirement incentive in the coming months, according to an April 26 news release from SCBC executive director-treasurer Gary Hollingsworth.

The Liberty University president also said GOP moderates “make my blood boil.”

Eisenhower used his first months to revolutionize how Americans understood the role of religion, effectively making piety and patriotism one and the same.

Even fans of McKibben may not know that the founder of the 350.org environmental nonprofit is also a religious man who has written passionately and extensively about the spiritual underpinnings of his drive to save the planet.

The former campus of Baptist University of the Americas in San Antonio, Texas, has been abandoned for months after the school moved to a new location.

Annie Peguero was trying to soothe her agitated 19-month-old baby in church on Sunday when she did what she often does — she nursed her. But her efforts to calm her daughter caused a stir in the sanctuary.

Why were these independent churches so effective in appealing to China’s burgeoning middle class? And how do they survive despite government efforts to rein in religious groups not part of government-run places of worship?