No political victory should be worth sacrificing moral integrity

Graham Platner’s campaign to dethrone Susan Collins as one of Maine’s two senators has come to an abrupt end following allegations of sexual assault. In an 11-minute-long video on X, the progressive firebrand launched a combative defense calling the allegations...

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Bomb scare interrupts worship at historically black church in Virginia

A historic African-American Baptist church in Alexandria, Virginia, received a bomb threat during a Saturday evening worship service, one week after 11 Jewish worshippers were gunned down at a synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The service, one of four services held…

Words matter. What if the source of our words matters as much as the words themselves?

Faced with the overwhelming abundance and appalling emptiness of human speech these days, something inside me wants to follow Job’s lead and “lay my hand over my mouth.”

On Election Day, I’ll be watching for signs of repentance from white evangelicals

On Tuesday night, I’ll watch election returns to see whether white people who call themselves evangelical followers of Jesus will, again, prove that they prize white supremacy above the inclusive and liberating gospel of divine grace, truth, justice and peace.

Growing up in Westboro Baptist Church: We were ‘true believers,’ everyone else the enemy

My grandfather was Fred Phelps, who founded the notorious Westboro Baptist Church. This is what he taught us.

Do Methodists have a case against Jeff Sessions?

Though the denomination is the least likely in the US to administer church discipline, critical voices have been swirling around its highest-ranking politician.

Jeff Sessions’ heckler influenced by Baptist ‘tradition of protest’

A Baptist minister removed earlier this week as a heckler during a speech on religious liberty by Attorney General Jeff Sessions is a graduate of the Wake Forest University School of Divinity and former intern for the Baptist Joint Committee…

Is the rise in anti-Semitism one of the Church’s unpaid bills?

Dietrich Bonhoeffer told his seminary students, “Only he who cries out for the Jews may sing Gregorian chants.” As Christian worshipers stand to sing on Sunday, we would do well to remember Bonhoeffer’s confession.

Trusting in God’s miracle of restored eyesight – and in the miracle of modern science

I showed up for eye surgery with a faith-filled calm, trusting that come what may, God would be with me. But, I also bore the confidence that in a few days I will see, quite literally, yet another miracle – the miracle of modern science.

Evangelical PR blitz before midterms won’t fix the ‘81% problem’

Evangelicals—and those who are strongly invested in a “respectable” image for evangelicalism—now seem to be making a concerted effort to push back ahead of the midterm elections.

‘God is going to have to forgive me’: Young evangelicals speak out

Young evangelicals are questioning the typical ties between evangelicalism and Republican politics.

Millennials want authenticity from church, not red carpets and gimmicks

Congregations lamenting the dwindling presence of young adults from church and faith often need only to look within for the solutions.