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Book banners almost always motivated by religion, speaker says

Proponents of book banning may differ in the titles or subjects they want to suppress, but they almost always are motivated by religious beliefs, college senior Katie Turcke observed during a recent webinar on censorship. The Pomona College student said…

Can Pope Leo actually stop Opus Dei?

The ecumenical rumor mill is churning, and right now, it’s saying the Vatican may be on the verge of a dramatic move against one of its most powerful and controversial groups. According to recent reporting, newly enthroned Pope Leo is…

Kansas City church rebrands for inclusion

A Baptist church in Kansas City has rebranded itself to declare both its adherence to denominational roots and its identity as an open and affirming congregation. Holmeswood Baptist Church is now Holmeswood Church with a prominent tagline: “Baptist Roots, Inclusive…

SBC luminary Morris Chapman dies at 84

Former Southern Baptist Convention leader Morris Chapman died in Nashville Oct. 20 at age 84 after a brief illness. Chapman led the SBC Executive Committee from 1992 through 2010 and was the first leader of that agency installed by the…

Is there a common source for the Ten Commandments bills?

As Republican-dominated states seek to require displays of the Ten Commandments in school classrooms, critics are noting some odd similarities in the language of the bills. It seems possible — even likely — the bills are originating from a common…

Is Christian nationalists’ use of Romans 13 kinky or perverted?

A pastor praying outside an ICE facility in Chicago gets shot in the head by a pepper pellet and collapses to the ground in pain. Commentators dispute whether the protesters had been warned to leave, although currently circulating videos don’t…

N.T. Wright: Ephesians is blueprint for multiethnic church

Renowned biblical scholar N.T. Wright believes Ephesians is a book for this moment. To show that, he has written a new book on Ephesians, arguing the letter offers a radical vision for church unity that Western Christianity largely has missed….

Christian legal group ADF playing political kingmaker in England

Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative Christian legal group founded four decades ago to defend believers in the U.S. who say they are being persecuted, has gone on the offensive in England, where it is backing populist right-wing leader Nigel Farage…

Here’s what the Churches of Christ and MAGA have in common

The MAGA agenda marks Make America Great Again as a classic restorationist movement, sharing its most basic assumption with restorationist movements that have appeared over the course of Christian history — the 16th-century Anabaptists, for example, or in America, Baptists,…