Decisions by the San Antonio City Council and Buffalo, New York to exclude Chick-Fil-A from their airports over opposition to same-sex marriage has gotten the attention of the Department of Transportation.
A Louisiana College professor resigned in protest in February, claiming administrators at the Baptist school tried to suppress criticism of a chapel speaker for using sexualized imagery and leaving the impression that a woman’s value is measured by her physical appearance and sexual history.
The bigger factor behind the SBC’s decline isn’t the struggle to gain new converts; it’s keeping their own.
A century ago, a meeting in Philadelphia changed American religion forever.
Black Church Food Security Network is helping congregations establish gardens and farmers markets on church-owned land, and then the nonprofit connects them with black-owned farms and urban growers throughout the mid-Atlantic.
The percentage of Americans who are unaffiliated with any one religion has grown from 16% to 23% over the past decade. A recent paper in Science Advances found in other parts of the world, a rise in secularism often coincides with an increase in economic growth.
More than 1,000 victims of the Holocaust were buried May 22 in Belarus, some 70 years after they were killed in the genocide.
Doyle Sager was nowhere near Jefferson City, Missouri, when a tornado etched a wide, destructive path across the municipality Wednesday night -- but he felt its emotional impact.
A quarter-century ago, Congress passed the Religious Freedom and Restoration Act on an almost unanimous basis. Since then, the advocacy of religious freedom has become highly contentious and more partisan.
It's one thing to spend a bit of money treating ourselves to life's various luxuries, but it's another thing to splurge to the point where it hurts our finances. Many Americans are guilty of the latter.
