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,...
From the imagery of the divine mother in Beyonce’s performance to Busta Rhymes’s jab at President Trump’s “Muslim ban,” religion took center stage at the 2017 Grammy Awards.
People working in ministry, music and nonprofit advocacy are facing pressure for their political beliefs.
I recently heard a priest at Conception Abbey offering the homily at Eucharist, attended by all the young men preparing to enter the priestly vocation. He was making the point “it’s not about you” to these who might presume overweening…
As couples everywhere celebrate Valentine’s Day, Baptist News Global writer Greg Warner explores the whole issue of marriage and how it evolved from a mostly contractual agreement to a sacred institution of love and romance, and how even that has evolved…
In ministry, going it alone can be downright depressing and, in extreme cases, deadly. Isolation, real or imagined, can lead ministers into burnout, emotional distress, heart disease and sometimes suicide. It prompts the age-old question: who pastors the pastors? Religious…
Fox News personality Todd Starnes attributed Donald Trump’s election to “divine intervention” aided by prayer rallies led by evangelist Franklin Graham in an American Pastor’s Network radio interview Feb. 9. Starnes, a Fox News personality for more than a decade…
The question of what to do with religion in school-choice programs is how, or whether, to keep the baby while ditching the bathwater.
Starr, ousted last year amid the school’s sexual assault scandal, is reportedly being considered to lead the Office of International Religious Freedom in the Trump administration.
Seldom do I read the hunting and fishing enthusiast’s “Fish and Game” column in the Madison County paper, but a recent offering on the “State of the Firearms Industry,” drew my attention. The article spoke of the firearm industry returning…
Some Christian leaders wonder if the American church retains any meaningful influence in a society when it has been so strongly dominated by other cultural forces. In the book The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience, theologian Ron Sider laments that…
The head of a Baptist religious liberty watchdog group warned in a Religion News Service op-ed Feb. 9 that removing limits on political activity by tax-exempt charities could harm churches more than help them. Amanda Tyler, executive director of the…
The modern-day sanctuary movement is rooted in deeply held religious values of welcoming the outsider. With Trump in power, it’s taking on new relevance
