James Talarico isn’t the only Democratic candidate making faith a calling card of his campaign this year. In Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed will face Haley Stevens in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Aug. 4. In a fundraising letter this week,...
Jesus, it seems, could see women as people.
To hope is not some wishful desire but an expected joy that God will bring about God’s purposes. Jürgen Moltmann argued for a hope based in a God who keeps promises, a God who is a step ahead of humanity…
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary has apologized for a photo which has circulated on Twitter of five white faculty members posing as black gang members. The photo has been criticized as racist.
Do powerful people read Niebuhr because he tells them to act with humility and caution? Or is it because Niebuhr tells them that moral men have to play hardball?
After a rousing speech at last summer’s Democratic National Convention, Barber might have become the president’s pastor. Instead, he’s now the face of a progressive Christian protest movement that’s taking its fight from North Carolina to the White House.
Prejean’s work opposing capital punishment was captured in her book and film Dead Man Walking, and now she’s speaking out against a spate of planned killings.
Tired of all the vitriol on social media? Baffled by the intensity of others’ (and your own) emotional responses to hot button political issues? It turns out recent brain research and sociological studies offer hints as to why negativity reigns….
The chair-elect of the Association of Welcoming and Affirming Baptists joined 74 other faith leaders and religious and civil-rights organizations in a legal brief filed April 24 supporting a former transgender funeral home employee in Michigan who claimed she was…
In the corner of the public square where people of faith cluster, debate rages on whether it’s possible to engage a militantly secular age, or if retreat is, borrowing Leonard Cohen’s immortal phrase, “the only engine of survival.”
When any and all research can be contemptuously waved away with the smear of “political correctness” and every verifiable fact can be beaten back with talk of “media bias,” we’ve got to fight for the right to make certain distinctions.
Americans who attend church say the sermons – not the music – keep them coming back. In fact, music finished in last place among every category of church life – from volunteer opportunities to children’s programs – in Gallup’s April 14…
Theological educators from all over North American convened in Pittsburgh on April 23 to celebrate the good and faithful work of Daniel Aleshire. He has led the Association of Theological Schools (one of Central Seminary’s accrediting bodies) for the past…
