The son of a famous pastor, Bart Campolo is now a rising star of atheism — using the skills he learned in the world he left behind. Source: The Evangelical Scion Who Stopped Believing – The New York Times
The Evangelical Scion Who Stopped Believing
RNA poll: Trump dominates 2016, but was not (#Really) Religion Newsmaker of the Year
So when did Citizen Donald Trump win the White House? You could make a case that it was when Hillary Rodham Clinton kept going to see the musical “Hamilton” over and over, rather than taking her husband’s advice and making a few campaign trips to visit with angry working-class, labor-union Catholic families in the deeply […]
2016 Year in Review: Religion and Politics
Selections from The Atlantic’s coverage of 2016—from religious-liberty bills to Donald Trump’s polarizing effect on evangelicals. Source: 2016 Year in Review: Religion and Politics – The Atlantic
You are the racist, actually, not me
Im an Orthodox Jewish settler raising seven children in the West Bank. I’m also an American citizen and I voted for Donald Trump. Yeah, I’m that lady. I opened a local business here, and I did so on purpose — to respond to BDS anti-settler activities by encouraging Jewish West Bank residents to work in […]
How the Church Helps Black Men Flourish in America
They go to church. Here’s why that matters. Source: Incarceration Rates, Employment Rates, and Marriage Rates Among Church-Going American Black Men – The Atlantic
The Religious-Liberty Showdowns Coming in 2017
From mosque surveillance to new religious-exemption laws, a look at some of the issues likely to come up under Trump Source: Religious Liberty Under Trump: Christians, Muslims, LGBT Rights, and More – The Atlantic
Democrats Have a Religion Problem
A conversation with Michael Wear, a former Obama White House staffer, about the party’s illiteracy on and hostility toward faith Source: Democrats’ Religion Problem – The Atlantic
Does God Exist? 4 New Arguments
Science tells us that the universe came into being via The Big Bang. But how do you get from energy and matter to a self-aware human being? That takes three additional Big Bangs that science can’t explain. Noted theologian, Frank Pastore, unravels this compelling mystery and, in the process, poses the ultimate question that every […]
Christmas Carols service in Sri Lanka accidentally prints the lyrics of Tupac’s hit song ‘Hail Mary’
A Christmas carols service in Sri Lanka mistakenly printed out the lyrics to gangster rapper Tupac’s hit song ‘Hail Mary’ on thousands of its service programmes. Source: Christmas Carols service in Sri Lanka accidentally prints the lyrics of Tupac’s hit song ‘Hail Mary’ | Daily Mail Online
Christmas: ‘Be Not Afraid’ Is a Central Message
Thanks to the crèche, introduced to Western Christendom by Saint Francis of Assisi in 1223, the Christmas story has become seamless: a unified tale with a single cast of characters, from Mary, Joseph, and the infant savior, wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a manger, through the choir of angels, the shepherds, the local […]