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UMC General Conference removes much of LGBTQ restrictions in consensus vote

The 52-year battle over the exclusion of LGBTQ people from full participation in The United Methodist Church turned a major corner April 30 through a parliamentary move designed to adopt measures that have broad consensus from legislative committees. The battle…

‘There’s no such thing as PTSD, OCD, ADHD,’ John MacArthur declares

Parents who medicate their children for ADHD and OCD are turning their children into potential drug addicts and criminals, John MacArthur warned earlier this month. MacArthur, a highly influential Calvinist pastor and author in Los Angeles, spoke on a panel…

TIME’s ‘If He Wins’ interview with Trump doesn’t mention religion, faith or religious liberty

A 5,000-word interview with Donald Trump published April 30 in TIME magazine does not mention the words “church,” “religion,” “faith” or “religious liberty” anywhere. The sweeping article focuses on what Trump plans to do if sent back to the White…

Virginia church with historic ties to SBC will vote on leaving due to Law Amendment

A Virginia church with deep historical ties to the Southern Baptist Convention will vote May 19 on a proposal to sever ties with the SBC due to the denomination’s intolerance for women serving as pastors. For decades, First Baptist Church…

The Holocaust Musaffecteum: Humbling irritations amidst genuine horror past and present

My family and I had been standing in line for nearly half an hour at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. Despite all that time and with prior experience at another high-security location, I still wasn’t ready…

Rising Hope tells the story of overcoming adversity in Mississippi Delta

A new documentary about the triumph of courage over despair in the Mississippi Delta is winning critical acclaim and proving no situation is too daunting to change, said Jason Coker, president of Together for Hope and a leading character in…

What can we learn from children about being liberated from Kendomland?

April 2024 has been the month when the Kens of the Mojo Dojo Casa Churches came out in full force to flex their patriarchy power in preach-offs. It started with Josh Howerton telling women to crown dishonorable men as their kings and…

The problem with men’s conferences

The problem with Christian men’s conferences may not be the men or the speakers, it may be the very idea of a “men’s” conference. Such events have become popular in modern American churches, particularly among evangelicals. And sometimes they create…

Understanding America’s overlooked religious middle

In America’s religious landscape, the groups attracting the most public attention are those staking out the poles in our political divides: the shrinking, aging, but still influential group of white evangelicals on the right vs. Black Protestants and the growing…

Love, hate and Harry Potter

May 2 is International Harry Potter Day, the anniversary of the climactic Battle of Hogwarts in the final Potter book, when love overcomes hate and death. It’s a very Easter kind of occasion, and intentionally so, according to author J….

To save democracy, one place to start is in church

American democracy is under serious threat as we approach the 2024 election. Former President Donald Trump and the MAGA movement have normalized political violence in the wake of the January 6 riot, invoked poisonous and dehumanizing speech about opponents as…

My hybrid church

Let me tell you about my church. My church meets every Friday from noon until around 6:30 p.m. My church has no pews but plenty of folding tables and chairs as well as boxes and bins filled with groceries. My…

Nobody dislikes Southern Baptists more than Al Mohler

Trump EEOC claims more religious discrimination on vaccine mandates

What I wish Christians knew about Sharia Law

On telling a brother he is going to hell