As the U.S. continues to debate the fusion of faith and politics, a sweeping new survey reports that most American adults have a positive view of religion's role in public life but...]]>
Even with stories that sound positive, we're jaded, cynically waiting for the gotcha, the turn to some dark revelation. And when there isn't a negative turn...]]>
For most of the last decade, observers have been trying to understand why so many highly religious Americans have a favorable view of Donald Trump, asking how values...]]>
In some ways, they remain intact. Most pastors don't cuss from the pulpit, or at all. Mainstream conservative churches still teach their young people to save sex for...]]>
Note the underlying assumption here: it is the Church's duty to change, not the fallen-away Catholic's. Not once in the report are the (wrong) views of the participants...]]>
To the chagrin of headline writers everywhere, Pope Francis turned the focus of the synodal heavily toward process in his letter to Cardinal Mario Grech, general secretary of the General...]]>
Florida may soon embark upon a dreadful new experiment in tearing down the wall between church and state. This month, the state's legislature passed a bill that would...]]>
T. S. Eliot began his Four Quartets, "In my end is my beginning." And that is how we should think about our Lenten path. All of Lent is leading...]]>
As the title says, you have come to the right place if you are stressed out. I am totally stressed about a long list of issues and projects. Thus, as a...]]>
Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, the chief Sephardi rabbi of Israel, recently threatened a mass exodus of the
A little over a century ago, in his 1920 encyclical Principi Apostolorum Petro, Pope Benedict XV declared the 4th century poet,...]]>
Before the pandemic, the hajj pilgrimage drew millions each year to Islam's holy city of Mecca, home to the cube-shaped Kaaba that observant Muslims pray...]]>
Iran faced international criticism on Tuesday over the death of a woman held by its morality police, which ignited three days of protests, including clashes with security...]]>
An assistant principal at a public elementary school in Connecticut is facing an investigation by state education officials after apparently being secretly...]]>
What if we looked at the roughly 245 million adults in the United States a little differently? What if we imagined the U.S. as a small town,...]]>
The landmark Washington National Cathedral has unveiled new stained-glass windows with a theme of racial justice.
]]>As he pivots toward the center on abortion policy, Donald Trump isn't just giving pro-life activists headaches. He's also testing...]]>
Canada's prime minister leveled the charge on Monday, and an all-out diplomatic war soon followed.
]]>For cultivated meat to go mainstream the way its backers hope, it'll need to be accepted by people who abide by a variety of dietary laws.
]]>As you know, Confused, that's really tough question. And the short answer is, I don't know.
I don't know the specific reason that God has for letting any particular sad,...]]>
We should always be growing as Christians. In fact we should grow in all aspects of our lives: a dead curiosity, an atrophied sense of adventure, are mere reflections of a...]]>
Last week someone pointed me to this fascinating article on the implications of brain science for happiness. "Synapses that fire together wire together," author Steven Parton...]]>
In my experience in Christ-centered counseling, nearly 95% of the people who claim to be a Christian cannot articulate or answer simple questions correctly about how they...]]>
A school district that gave preschoolers a book on cross-dressing has changed its procedures for giving out books after news of the incident surfaced last week.
]]>For all the talk of Roe v. Wade being overturned this year in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, those who follow abortion issues closely understand that Roe...]]>
A religious organization announced Sunday that two of its missionaries who were taken hostage with 15 others last month in Haiti have been released. Christian Aid...]]>