A recent proposed settlement in a federal court case out of Texas that would change how churches intersect with politics has become what supporters call restoring free speech rights and opponents call ...

It’s one of the great paradoxes of our time. Many conservative pastors courageously preach a biblical worldview from their pulpits — defending life, marriage, and religious freedom — yet when it comes ...

I recently served as president of my church council. Any reader who has served on any church leadership committee will know what this means: long meetings that cut into evening family time; fielding ...

It has been a year since the arrest and extradition of former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte to the International Criminal Court in The Hague. He is charged with crimes against humanity, ...

My Christmas homily began by recounting how churches in the Boston and Chicago areas adjusted their outdoor Nativity creches by adorning them with ICE symbols. Then I described a modern Nativity ...

The day the 2024 election was called for Donald Trump, there was a palpable atmosphere of celebration at Awaken Church’s Kearny Mesa campus. Pastors at Awaken had been telling their congregations to ...

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A Lutheran pastor identifies five false teachings that threaten to corrupt the church’s public witness. If we can learn anything from the history of Christian heresies, it is that they never truly ...

“What we’re fighting for is democracy,” Texas state Rep. Barbara Gervin-Hawkins said Sunday. She didn’t say this at a news conference or in a committee hearing or a TV interview. She spoke the words ...

The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed a budget reconciliation bill that is contrary to Catholic social teaching. The bill is now waiting to be debated in the Senate. It should be strongly ...