This year’s midterm elections highlight a debate not between Christians and non-Christians so much as a debate between Christians who read the same Bible, pray to the same God and arrive at different conclusions about what their faith requires in...
Political parties want independent voters’ support. But are they prepared to offer them belonging without demanding their allegiance? A woman once asked me to carry a message to my fellow Democrats. She was a Democrat, but her husband was an…
The U.S. Supreme Court’s new term features important cases on controversial issues — religion, immigration and guns — with rulings due before the end of June 2027. Justices were denied much of a summer break as they ruled on cases…
If the anniversary of St. Francis of Assisi’s death on Oct. 3, 1226, or his feast day on Oct. 4 slipped by your attention (as they did mine), not to worry. No less than Pope Leo has declared all October…
On a cool, damp Sunday evening in October, a small crowd gathered under the white steel beams that define the footprint of the Historic Polegreen Church in Hanover County, Va., site of one of the first four non-Anglican meeting houses…
Thirty-seven Maryland churches sought to leave The United Methodist Church and take their properties with them, but the Appellate Court of Maryland has said the churches must pay to leave. On Oct. 5, the state appellate court affirmed a lower…
The false story about James Talarico leaving the campaign trail to seek mental health treatment insulted millions of Americans, according to former U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger. Kinzinger, who represented Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican from…
Christianity Today is in “chaos” with staff departures and layoffs, according to the editor of another Christian journal. Warren Cole Smith, editor of MinistryWatch, wrote Oct. 12 that “even from the outside, the chaos (at CT) is not hard to…
The Texas Legislature is “so focused on the 10 that they forget about the two,” James Talarico told a Dallas megachurch Sunday, Oct. 13. His reference was to the Legislature and governor’s fixation on the Ten Commandments, wanting all public…
More than 125 North Carolina faith leaders joined together to urge the governor and legislature to reject a state budget provision guaranteeing public school students up to four hours per week of off-campus religious instruction. The release time for religious…
Tennessee execution survivor Christa Pike has been released from a Nashville hospital and is back in the maximum-security prison where she was imprisoned for more than three decades before her botched lethal injection last month, her attorneys said. “She is…
When did killing someone become a measure of justice? And when did watching someone die become entertainment? Let’s begin with Christa Pike. On Sept. 30, the state of Tennessee attempted to execute Pike by lethal injection. She was administered two…
Roman Catholic and United Methodist leaders have joined the condemnation of Pete Hegseth’s planned livestreamed execution of Nidal Malik Hasan. Any Catholics assigned to the firing squad are “obliged” to request to be excused from this action, which is “contrary…
