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Taxpayer-funded By Dawn’s Early Light woos Trump’s evangelical base

Democratic presidents have targeted Christians and attacked religious freedom for decades, but President Donald Trump is making everything right, claims By Dawn’s Early Light, a taxpayer-funded movie starring Trump administration officials that praises the president’s Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian...

HIPPA and church prayer requests

By Mike Greer Sometimes church members mistakenly claim that HIPAA (the American Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996) applies to church communications about the medical status of those listed or mentioned in church prayer meetings. HIPPA applies only to…

Finding God in the in-between times

By Rob Lee I visited my dream seminary yesterday. I’ll spare you the specifics of where I want to go, but I have had my application in since Sept. 4, 2014, at 3:30pm, and I won’t find out until sometime…

Christian pundit Dinesh D’Souza sentenced to 5 years probation

Vatican arrests defrocked former archbishop on pedophilia charges

Sex, guns and Jesus: Inside America’s manliest church

Jonathan Merritt: Why my Dad regrets spanking his children

Episcopal Church’s Katharine Jefferts Schori will not seek re-election

blessings.

Ahem, (clears throat, drinks water, begins.) Blessed are the persecuted mega-church majorities, for they own most of the world already. Blessed are those who mourn the loss of Christianity’s cultural power, for they will be trapped eternally in a group…

Southern Baptists oust ‘Third Way’ church

By Bob Allen The Southern Baptist Convention has kicked out a California church that voted in May to agree to disagree about whether the Bible teaches that homosexual behavior is always a sin. Acting on behalf of the convention between…

‘Nones’ increasingly uninterested in ministers at time of death, funerals

By Jeff Brumley There was a time when even the unchurched came to church for at least one occasion — their deaths. It was an era when nearly everyone, even those who rejected religion, had some connection to faith, however distant….

American Baptist Home Mission Societies executive to retire next year

By Robert Dilday Aidsand F. Wright-Riggins III has announced plans to retire next year as executive director and chief executive officer of American Baptist Home Mission Societies, completing the longest tenure of any leader of the 182-year-old organization linked with…

Life by the clock or life by the compass?

By Bill Wilson Which do you live by: Clock or compass? If the clock dictates, your life is consumed with the immediate and pressing issues of the moment. Clock life is focused on short-term results. If the clock rules, you…

Eradicating DEI hasn’t made anything better

How Christian nationalism shows up in patriotic worship services

Dear Trump-supporting Christians, are you really OK with this?

‘Every Student. Every State’ campaign promotes school tax credit