In the spirit of reading other people’s mail, specifically 2 Timothy 2:1-14, I present a letter to the faithful when it feels like the world is on fire. To the dearest faithful, blessed doubtful, ...
Here’s a stat that, to this day, I still can’t quite believe: the share of Americans who had a passport was 5% in 1990. According to data from 2023, that had risen to 48%. Maybe it’s because I grew up ...
My visit coincides with a book I finished on the plane out here to North Carolina. Randall Balmer’s America’s Best Idea: The Separation of Church and State. Balmer’s book is a work of history, a field ...
He’s been called a hero for standing up to the Nazis as they unleashed Hitler’s Final Solution to kill Europe’s Jews. But André Trocmé saw himself as a devoted follower of Jesus and Protestant pastor ...
In these types of quarrels, the Great Church majority almost always represented the middle-of-the-road approach to faith.
A Presbyterian minister has joined a lawsuit to stop the Trump administration’s violence against demonstrators and media.
Thiel’s fearful apocalypse mirrors President Trump’s fear-infused message and his own dream of imperial exceptionalism.
Pope Leo XIV encouraged international news agencies on Thursday to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation, as he strongly backed a free, independent and objective ...
After the Supreme Court’s polarizing Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, the liberal Protestant organ, The Christian Century, sometimes expressed deep ethical concerns about freer access to abortion. Though ...
As the first phase of a ceasefire between Israel and Gaza appeared imminent, major religious groups, Jewish, Muslim and Christian, issued near-unanimous statements of relief and gratitude. But they ...
The son of the evangelist has pulled the BGEA and Samaritan’s Purse from membership in the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability.
If you are a fire-baptized, Holy Ghost-filled disciple whose deepest allegiance is to Jesus Christ, then we need to talk as ...