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...

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Experts seek balance between optimism and pessimism in future of congregations

By Jeff Brumley LifeWay President and CEO Thom Rainer has declared himself an “obnoxious optimist” about the state of American churches despite years of declines and closures in a post-Christian, post-church culture. In a July 11 column in The Christian…

Kentucky Baptist Convention leaders, Campbellsville University trustees clash

By Bob Allen Eight months after ending ties with Georgetown College, the Kentucky Baptist Convention warned trustees of Campbellsville University that a governance change reportedly up for a vote this week could jeopardize their school’s relationship to the state affiliate…

Jonathan Merritt explores how he took hold of ‘a thread called grace’

In his latest book, faith and culture writer Jonathan Merritt delves into a yearlong inward journey to recover a faith that had grown spiritually dry. ABPnews/Herald asked him what led him to write Jesus Is Better Than You Imagined and…

In church on Saturday

By Gary Cook In Sue Monk Kidd’s remarkable book, The Invention of Wings, a fictional account of real people caught up in the 19th-century drama of slavery and the abolitionist movement, there is an encounter between Sarah Grimke, who became…

U.S. Muslims most approving of Obama, Mormons least

Richard Land’s fall and the end of the old Religious Right

World Council Of Churches divests from fossil fuels

Pope says 2 percent of priests are pedophiles

Student who married same-sex partner expelled from Southwestern Christian University

Two Pastors, An Angry Man, And a Funeral

As a pastor, I have usually have positive experiences with funeral homes and funeral director. One of the first funerals I ever did, as an ordained pastor, was memorable. A well known hometown gentleman died young, and his family contacted me and a…