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Detainees at the now-closed “Alligator Alcatraz” in Florida were kept in “inhumane” living conditions that included lack of clean water and enclosures small enough to violate human health and safety standards, according to a new federal report.

A new lawsuit is the latest seeking to block the Trump administration’s plan to use armed agents to interfere with the midterm elections in November.

In 1960, an episode of the sitcom Leave it to Beaver aired in which Beaver befriends a new student named Kenneth who showers him with gifts, hoping to buy his friendship.

I’ve written before about my involvement with an interfaith clergy coalition in Dallas.

Imagine a young man recording a 60-second video in his bedroom.

Seven years ago, I sat in Noel Schoonmaker’s office at Second Baptist Church in Richmond and told him I was struggling to worship with white people.

One of the smaller breakaways of a breakaway group within the Anglican tradition has set apart three new clergy and appointed one a “Canon Missioner to the Earth.”

Christianity Today has named a new editor in chief, continuing a reset after Russell Moore left the post in October 2025.

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I write often about how politics is not the only thing to care about if you are a Christian.

There are two ways to look at the Oct. 7 attacks, and which way you do will determine, to a large degree, whether you want to see Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu survive the next election.

As we approach the third anniversary of the horrific Hamas attacks, Israel’s violent backlash is still ongoing.

I grew up very evangelical in a very evangelical time.

In the days immediately following Pope Francis’ death, messages from friends poured into Cardinal Robert Prevost’s phone.

Christa Pike remained unconscious and under guard in a Nashville hospital days after a botched lethal injection that led to the resignation of the state’s top corrections official.

Nearly 90% of Americans believe government corruption is pervasive as the nation nears the midterm elections, according to a new Gallup survey.

James Orsen Bakker, who transformed Christian evangelism via television, died Oct. 5 at age 86.

Letting Iran bomb Los Angeles and San Diego would be a “small price to pay” for the U.S. intervention in Iran, President Donald Trump told a rally in Grand Island, Neb., Oct. 5.

Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde appears in a new video ad urging all people to vote.

The Trump administration has raised the nation’s annual refugee admissions cap from 7,500 to 17,500 for the coming year but again dictated that the vast majority must be white South Africans.

When I worked in death-penalty communications, words such as “execution,” “death warrant,” “clemency” and “lethal injection” began to sound like the ordinary vocabulary of public policy.

American Baptist Churches USA has administered tens of thousands of dollars in emergency assistance to Haitian communities besieged by federal immigration actions since losing Temporary Protected Status.

President Donald Trump is using $20 million in Homeland Security funds to air a dozen TV ads praising him and his achievements, including “PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST,” a month before midterm elections.

Robert Jeffress escalated his attack on James Talarico in a Sept. 30 podcast conversation with Texas Lt.

Follow the money.

My arm jolted in pain as the needle slid into a vein in my right arm.

Authorities in China detained Protestant Pastor An Yankui at his home on suspicion of “organizing illegal religious activities” amid an ongoing crackdown on unregistered churches.

People are increasingly turning to AI for advice.

For close to 15 years, Seema Ashar has hosted a celebration for Ganesh Chaturthi, a Hindu festival celebrating its namesake deity, inviting about 100 friends into her Irving, Texas, home.

Ten years after Pope Francis sent shock waves through the Catholic Church with his outreach to divorced and civilly remarried Catholics, Pope Leo XIV is inviting church leaders to Rome next week to understand how Francis’ document has been implemented.

Fiscal conservatism has died, replaced by an open season of corruption in the Trump administration.

While most Americans have opinions on the Cornell Seven — the frat boys accused of rape and sexual assault at Cornell University — you know who hasn’t said a darned word publicly about any of this?

The Trump administration is trying to deport Yehonatan Ovadia, a Satmar Hasidic religious teacher in Rockland County, New York.

A 120 year-old United Methodist Church in rural Michigan shutters.

Two Christian student groups are suing Virginia State University (VSU), claiming the historically black school has discriminated against them by instituting a policy putting their clubs under the governance of a single university-employed campus minister…

The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to consider whether a religious institution has a right to build a shrine to the Virgin Mary on residential property next to its Kentucky church.

“Trans athletes have ‘stolen’ nearly 2,300 gold medals from women and girls in the US” blared the New York Post headline.

Bob Agee, the second-longest-serving president of Oklahoma Baptist University, died Sept. 26 just four days shy of his 88th birthday.

Christa Pike remained in critical condition in a Tennessee hospital Oct. 1 after surviving two execution attempts and numerous agonizing efforts to insert IVs during her failed lethal injection the day before.

These days, in the land of the free and the home of the Ten Commandments in classrooms, the story of the Golden Calf as described in Exodus 32 and Deuteronomy 9 keeps coming to mind.

Another day and another news report of a Trump administration cruelty related to immigrants and immigration policies.

Tina Peters, a Christian election-denying felon, has traveled the country raising doubts about voting since June when she left prison seven years early thanks to President Donald Trump’s successful pressure campaign against Colorado officials.

“Either we surrender to the demonic forces … or we defeat them in a landslide,” said Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during a 2024 rally in Waco.

Immigration and this administration’s handling of it don’t seem to go away.

We talk often about how one out of every four undergraduate women is sexually assaulted during college.

Denying tax-exempt status to faith groups that endorse political candidates violates the constitutional rights of congregations, the Trump administration claimed in a recent court filing.

America may be entering one of the strangest intersections of warfare, technology, politics, masculinity and religion in modern history.

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Last week, I opened a forwarded email from a parishioner with a curious subject line: “The Gospel According to Claude.”

Graham Platner, a candidate in the Democratic senate primary in Maine, has been making headlines for a couple of weeks over his old Reddit posts containing racist and sexist remarks (like blaming women for their sexual assault and downplaying sexual...