Some peacemakers get Nobel Prizes, but most are ordinary people who do extraordinary, countercultural things. Todd Deatherage offers ways Christians can be peacemakers in this time when the election is over but our Facebook feeds are still a war zone.
As a COVID-19 vaccine gets closer to a public rollout, public health experts and policymakers in the United States are likely to encounter a big cultural barrier: Christian Nationalism. Read full piece
The coronavirus shutdown is affecting giving to Catholic parishes around the country in dramatically different ways, data shows, with some expected to see their offertory — parishioners’ donations, typically given at weekly services — down 50 percent, while others have had an increase. A study
J. Alfred Smith Sr. is not happy with the six Southern Baptist Convention presidents, who recently issued a declaration against Critical Race Theory. Read full piece
Anthea Butler writes that when White evangelicals ignore race as the motivating issue, she doubts their witness. Their handwringing, the self-abnegation, is meant to assuage their own discomfort, rather than the discomfort, violence, and continual distress of Black people in America.
Columnist Terrell Carter writes that Jesus gave his disciples an earnest rundown of how their lives would be changed due to following him. Although discipleship would be a blessing, it would also carry a cost with struggle, conflict, and separation in many ways.
The Trump administration on Monday moved to loosen restrictions on religious organizations that receive federal money to provide social services. The administration said it was clearing barriers that it claimed make it difficult for religious groups to participate in federal programs.
The Supreme Court has yet to set clear parameters about how religious holidays can be celebrated in public schools and whether granting access to all faith traditions is either constitutionally necessary or acceptable.
Joe Biden rarely misses Sunday Mass. That's a level of devotion to regular religious services not seen from recent presidents, who were professed Christians but intermittently attended church or worshiped privately while in office. Read full piece
What is the most boring chapter in the Bible? To most, I’d think it’s the genealogy of Jesus from Matthew 1. Read full piece