Christianity has long warned against the worship of golden idols. Yet the idolatry of money has been a problem as long as humanity has been able to quantify wealth. Most recently, this was symbolized with …
For centuries Christians have, in one way or another, wrestled with the idea of reparations for oppressed and enslaved peoples. In the United States today, reparations for Black Americans is more talked about than it …
The already struggling Venue Church has closed its north Georgia campus because its senior pastor was allegedly caught in adultery while going through a divorce. Venue’s North Georgia campus at 3969 Cloud Springs Road in …
Why do so many have a stubborn attachment to corrupt leaders? Everybody has a favorite writer, speaker, or athlete they follow, so having a favorite religious figure is not unusual. Church leaders are respected figures …
The Pew Forum’s data about religious attitudes toward abortion access show that religious people’s attitudes toward the topic are more mixed than is often perceived. Abortion debates have frequently been presented as a matter of …
A Christian commentator has laid out the reasons why he thinks the focus of Christian mission should make a shift. Matthew Skirton writes at Christian Today that Christians need to change their ministry focus from …
White Protestant Evangelicals are the only religious group in the United States in which a majority opposes citizenship pathways for illegal immigrants. That’s according to a survey by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), which …
Pentecostal nurse Malinda Babineaux has settled a religious discrimination lawsuit after she was denied a job because of her religious convictions about how she should dress. Babineaux had been offered a job with Wellpath LLC, …
“The church is not the building,” the old saying goes, and more and more congregations are taking that to heart. A trend of churches selling their buildings and properties to gain more financial stability and …
The early spread of the sport of basketball had a religious connection. St. Martin’s Episcopal Church in Harlem first organized basketball in 1905. Black churches helped spread basketball across the Black community of New York …