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If getting voters to the polls isn’t government’s job, maybe it is the work of the church

Tim O’Hare has taken limited government to a new self-defeating level. The Tarrant County, Texas, county judge (chief executive of the county government) declared last week: “I don’t believe it’s the county government’s responsibility to try to get more people…

Raushenbush’s children’s book emphasizes the love of God in Holy Week

Paul Raushenbush’s new children’s book, Together We Rise, was written to share the meaning of Holy Week and the joy of a loving God with his own kids. “It was a story I intended for my two sons. My oldest…

Loneliness in clergywomen — its causes and impacts and what we can do about it

A 2022 Barna study found 65% of Protestant pastors in the United States feel lonely at least sometimes, with 18% experiencing isolation frequently. These numbers are up significantly from Barna’s 2015 research. In addition, a 2020 survey revealed that 20%…

Searching for Grace: A necessary ending

This is the first of a five-part fictional story set in the early 1990s about Rev. Paul Graham and his congregation, Grace United Church of Christ. In the spring of 1991, Rev. Paul Graham assumed the deacons meeting at…

Due to war in Gaza, Israel has a labor shortage, and Africans are being recruited

One peculiar side effect of Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza is a shortage of agricultural workers in Israel. Now, the African country of Malawi seeks to help fill that gap. Three months after the Israeli government began recruiting laborers…

Hopeful positivity, the most powerful countercultural revolution a person can wage

During the pandemic, actor John Krasinski created a YouTube series titled “Some Good News.” From his living room, the actor famous for his role on The Office shared uplifting stories showcasing humanity’s good side. Unfortunately, once life got back to…

Metaxas calls Bonhoeffer’s relatives ‘Jew-hating lunatics’

North Carolina pastor abruptly forced out of prominent pulpit

Responding to the militarization of immigration policy

Meddling with Methodism and domesticating the Baptists

If getting voters to the polls isn’t government’s job, maybe it is the work of the church

Raushenbush’s children’s book emphasizes the love of God in Holy Week

Loneliness in clergywomen — its causes and impacts and what we can do about it

Searching for Grace: A necessary ending

Due to war in Gaza, Israel has a labor shortage, and Africans are being recruited

Hopeful positivity, the most powerful countercultural revolution a person can wage

Going public with Lent’s call to penitence

Letter to the Editor: Speaking ill of the dead

Oklahoma senator says of LGBTQ kids, ‘We don’t want that filth in our state’

Signing church services for the Deaf is a work of love — and a willingness to learn the Bible

The truth about religious disaffiliation depends on a long view, according to BYU researchers

Adam Schiff, California’s Jewish senator-elect and Trump’s nemesis, says the US is ‘very much weakened as a democracy’

How the gladiators inspired evangelicals’ sense of persecution

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Metaxas calls Bonhoeffer’s relatives ‘Jew-hating lunatics’

North Carolina pastor abruptly forced out of prominent pulpit

Responding to the militarization of immigration policy

Meddling with Methodism and domesticating the Baptists