The arrest of polygamist leader Lyle Jeffs, evictions of polygamist families and new studies on crippling genetic disorders among small... Read More
Over the past several years, the nation has been torn apart by memory wars. The conflict usually centers on a monument that reflects... Read More
“If it were proposed to all nations to choose which seemed best of all customs, each, after examination, would place its own first; so... Read More
Pope Urban VIII had counter-magic performed and cardinals jailed amid predictions that solar eclipses in 1628 and 1630 spelled doom for his... Read More
CNN Opinion asked members of the clergy to weigh in on last weekend's events in Charlottesville. The views expressed below are those of the... Read More
By her own estimation, Jen Hatmaker is “low-grade Christian famous.” She has written 12 books, starred in an HGTV series with her... Read More
A group of alumni from one of the country's most influential evangelical Christian universities is condemning their school's president for... Read More
Younger Americans stand out from older generations in a variety of ways, as a seemingly endless stream of commentators are happy to point... Read More
The words above are displayed at the United States Holocaust Museum. This week, amid outrage over President Trump's rhetoric about the... Read More
WHERE have Christians stood in the debate about nuclear weapons? How have practitioners of the world's most popular religion answered the... Read More
One of the first things that Richard Parks learned after moving into South Central Los Angeles is that Bible studies and liquor stores don't... Read More
Father Joseph Illo came to be in charge of the Star of the Sea Church in San Francisco three years ago. He has revitalized the ailing parish... Read More
On October 31, 2017, we will celebrate the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther's famous “95 Theses,” a list of various complaints... Read More
On paper, Sporkful host Dan Pashman and his wife Janie are pretty similar -- they're both white and Jewish, both raised in the New York area.... Read More
In the U.S. and plenty of other places around the world, atheism is on the rise. In just under half of the world's countries, according to... Read More
This year marks the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s famous 95 Theses, which helped spark the founding of the Reformation and the division of Christianity into Protestantism and Catholicism. The 95 Theses critiqued the church’s sale of indulgences, which Luther regarded as a form of corruption. By Luther’s time, indulgences had evolved into payments that were said to... Read More
In most American weekly church services, offering plates were passed around to finance all of church activities. As giving became very public, one of the features of the weekly offering was, of course, that all gathered could see who was giving, if not how much. Once the age of plastic money arrived, all of this ritual and financial necessity in American churches was jeopardized. Read More
