Note: This article discusses suicide, child sexual abuse and domestic violence. It may be distressing for some readers. On June 30, child liberation theologian and abuse survivor advocate Ryan Stollar died by suicide, following a lengthy struggle with his...
Four dozen evangelical leaders in Texas and across the nation issued an open letter Aug. 9 seeking to stop the execution of an 18-year death-row inmate scheduled to be executed Aug. 24.
Ouachita Baptist University has won the Forbes Magazine’s 2016 #MyTopCollege competition, eclipsing much larger schools in a month-long social media contest demonstrating school spirit.
A look at the long history of “Christian libertarianism” in the United States.
Only Mormons can enter LDS temples around the world. But in Philadelphia, the 152nd city where the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is opening a temple, members of the public have the rare opportunity to step inside.
For younger generations faith hasn’t disappeared so much as it’s migrated to the cultural region of popular music and away from the community-focused cultural region of the institutional church.
My life is in boxes right now. As I prepared to move from Connecticut to Mississippi, I packed over 40 boxes of books in my office. We have gone through each room, and while there is still a lot to…
Baylor University religion professor Deirdre Fulton is in the middle of a three-year dig that is shedding light on the lives, beliefs and practices of a group often villainized in the Old Testament: the Philistines.
The 69-year-old university recently moved from 12 acres in San Antonio, Texas, it had called home since 1965.
Speaking personally, religiously motivated anxiety (almost daily) threatens to destroy everything worthwhile about my faith, and my relationships, and my life.
World Vision, one of the world’s largest Christian humanitarian aid organizations, said it has “no reason … at this time” to believe the claims of Israeli security officials.
The Pope has already stood by John Paul II’s rejection of female priesthood. So if the study group finds that in the early church the office of deacon was intended as the prelude to priesthood, then what?
Non-Catholic clergy have experienced significant increases in income even as their work weeks declined by more than 15 percent in recent decades, according to a major new study of clergy compensation.
