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...
A poll found that one in four were worried that their offspring might be sidelined by friends if they passed on their religious views.
The story of the first conscientious objector to win the Medal of Honor, “Hacksaw Ridge” is about conflicts of many kinds: duty to God versus duty to country, individual freedom versus communal responsibility, healing versus killing, love versus hate.
The issue at stake is corporate commerce versus Lakota Sioux cultural heritage and protection of water for the Standing Rock Sioux nation, and the fact that another major fossil fuel pipeline only deepens the trauma of our burning planet.
The commonly accepted criteria for pastors’ leadership is that they bring a great vision with them when they become leader of a congregation, they know how to get people to follow their vision, and the results are a numerically growing,…
From around the country 524 clergy responded to the call of North Dakota priest John Floberg to gather in support of the Sioux Nation’s attempts to stop construction of an encroaching oil pipeline near Standing Rock. Floberg, leader of three…
Washington D.C. has become the sixth jurisdiction in the U.S. to approve so-called death-with-dignity legislation – but opponents vow to keep fighting against it. “We believe in life until natural death and that there is a racist component to it,”…
The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship is seeking field personnel to fill positions in China and New York City. CBF announced online this week that it needs an individual, couple or family to serve a long-term assignment as a partnership advocate in…
For years, technologists and other utopians have argued that online news would be a boon to democracy. That has not been the case.
Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church in Greenville, Miss., was reportedly set on fire and spray painted with the words “Vote Trump” on Tuesday night.
Please submit transitions — including staff changes, ordinations, anniversaries or deaths — to Barbara Francis. This page will be updated weekly. STAFF CHANGES Jonathan Balmer, to Second & James Baptist Church, Waco, Texas, as minister of youth. Lacey B. Davis, to…
“Arise, O Lord (Exsurge Domine), and judge thy cause. A wild boar is loose in thy vineyard.” That’s how Pope Leo X introduced his denunciation of Martin Luther in a papal encyclical released 15 June 1520. The document condemned a…
A recent commentary posed a timely question: Does the Reformation matter anymore? The Religion News Service piece by Jacob Lupfer was inspired by the Oct. 31 start of the one-year countdown to the 500th anniversary of the religious revolution sparked…
