Last May, congress passed the Take It Down Act, requiring websites to remove “nonconsensual intimate visual depictions” of identifiable individuals. This includes both real and AI-generated content. But this law only addresses content publication, not the various ways in which...
The law’s passage and approval by President Vladimir Putin drew strong criticism from human rights and religious freedom advocates inside Russia and around the world.
This is, hands down, the least favorite time of year for pastors everywhere: church budget planning season. Nobody likes budget planning, from the tedious work it entails to the way in which money necessarily informs the work of the church,…
Americans are a remarkably faithful people when it comes to spirituality, yet they are simultaneously, remarkably faithless when it comes to institutional religion. Why? This perplexity borders on cliché since it has been true for a number of years, but…
There are the kinds of missionaries who translate the Bible into exotic languages, who hold revivals on faraway continents and who provide medical care and food for earthquake victims. And then there are the kind who launch and run businesses…
The recent resignation of a Nashville pastor, who told his congregation he was tired and broken, illuminated what experts say is a real pitfall of leading a church. Pastors can burn out.
Americans have long been suspicious of nonbelievers. Misogyny, nativism, and racism have often been tied up in their fear.
The most important quality Howard E. Butt Jr. had was a touch of self-awareness. He knew the truth about himself: that he suffered from a deep and persistent depression. And he knew he needed professional help.
There’s a lot of talk today about those of us who have “privilege.” There’s white privilege, male privilege, education privilege, urban privilege, Christian privilege, economic privilege, neighborhood privilege and on and on. I’m not denying any of these are real;…
Achieving racial reconciliation can be hard work and slow, but Christians are called to pursue it relentlessly, said speakers — including former President Jimmy Carter — at a summit of Baptists seeking to bridge a racial divide that continues to bedevil the nation.
Jefferson said more than he meant. When he wrote those inspired words that rise boldly from our Declaration of Independence — “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal” — he spoke words that have…
Three of America’s most incendiary issues—race, patriotism and sports—have ignited into a bonfire of controversy. Soon, we’ll be seeing “America: Love it or Leave it” bumper stickers again.
A new survey of Christian beliefs and practices opens with what many in the church world would consider very good news: nearly three-quarters of Americans claim to be Christian. Meanwhile, a fifth claim no religious belief or affiliation at all,…
