If you were to sit down and read a 3,300-word argument from a professing Christian, urging you to think through your vote from a Christian perspective, how many biblical references would you expect to see? How about zero? That’s the amount of scripture blogger Rachel Held Evans chose to employ in her opus, “So you’re […]
There’s nothing like the pomp and prestige of the Olympics Games to raise the stakes for the world’s top athletes. With millions of viewers watching, more than 10,000 will compete in this year’s Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Fans tune in not only for the physical feats, but for stories of triumph. We want […]
‘God, why did you pick us?’ Source: Little Sisters of the Poor: HHS Mandate Fight Has Been Worth It | PJ Media
At a time when Muslims all around the world are terrorizing and slaughtering non-Muslims in the name of Islam,Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church, continues trying to distance Islam from violence. Last Sunday a journalist asked him about the recent and “barbarous assassination of Fr. Jacques Hamel” in France, and how the priest was […]
(RNS) Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton announced Tim Kaine, the junior Democratic senator from Virginia and former governor of that state, as her vice presidential running mate Friday (July 22). Kaine, a Roman Catholic, will appear with Clinton, a Methodist, at next week’s Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Here are five faith facts about […]
Among the many policy positions embedded in the 2016 Republican Party Platform is a call to repeal the Johnson Amendment, a controversial Internal Revenue Service regulation that has come under fire from churches and religious freedom advocates in recent years. The little-known tax provision applies exclusively to 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations, precluding them from endorsing — […]
At Washington National Cathedral on Sunday, an interracial group of clergy gathered to discuss the role of the white church in perpetuating racism. And what the church might do to heal the wounds. A tough subject, but dealt with unflinchingly. They began with church complicity in the nation’s original sins — genocide of indigenous peoples […]
WASHINGTON (RNS) Evangelical Christians converged on the nation’s capital for a prayer rally on one of the hottest days of the summer.With the nation reeling from recent shootings and shocked by news of a terrorist attack in France and an attempted coup in Turkey, speakers at “Together 2016” cited the global events from the stage […]
Reaction to the truck attack in Nice, France, that left 84 dead and many more injured Thursday night followed a now familiar script on Friday, with calls for prayers, promises to root out terrorism and a proposal to conduct religious tests on U.S. citizens to find terrorist sympathizers.
A new Christian discovers that liberal ideology is at odds with the Bible. Source: Why I Left the Left: How Studying Theology Made Me a Conservative | PJ Media
