Graham Platner’s campaign to dethrone Susan Collins as one of Maine’s two senators has come to an abrupt end following allegations of sexual assault. In an 11-minute-long video on X, the progressive firebrand launched a combative defense calling the allegations...
At QC Family Tree, we regularly get the question from congregations, “How can we be good partners for your mission?” The question often, but not always, comes to us from the same social locations that my wife and I, the…
A few years back — 10 or 15 or so — a small church in Southern California noticed its big holiday productions were feeling a bit stale, especially to younger people. “The old guard was putting on a show for the new people,…
Myers Park Baptist Church in Charlotte, N.C., has announced a $100,000 gift to help build North Carolina’s first homeless shelter for LGBTQ youth. The gift, announced March 30, will help Time Out Youth — a support and advocacy organization for lesbian,…
The Israeli historian thinks humans will use bioengineering and machine learning and artificial intelligence either to upgrade into a totally different kind of being or to create a totally different kind of being that will take over.
It’s time we called out sanctified nonsense masquerading as something redemptive because it’s gone on far too long and done too much damage to too many.
Regarding the discipline of practicing Sabbath (Jews prefer the Hebrew word, Shabbat), I have read and written many sermons and articles. But nothing brings this floating, vague theological notion down out of the clouds like spending time with real, living,…
The documentary recounts what many consider the greatest college basketball scandal ever: the murder of Baylor hoops star Patrick Dennehy by his teammate Carlton Dotson, and the attempted coverup of serious NCAA violations by the team’s head coach, Dave Bliss.
Worship — which is what makes a sanctuary a sanctuary — has the formative effect of firing the imagination in order that Christians see the world and its politics as God’s and so possessed of grace and truth.
Adoption and foster care are taking center stage in the latest conflict between LGBT equality and religious liberty. In the Texas legislature, State Rep. James Frank (R-Wichita Falls) is proposing an amendment to the state’s Human Resources Code to protect…
John Calvin argued for the plain meaning of the Bible while writing thousands of pages of commentary to help make plain what the scriptures were saying and teaching. What was plain and clear plainly needed some explaining.
A new book argues that the giving patterns of today’s wealthy may present challenges to the democratic process.
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