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Nearly one-fourth of independent voters who voted for Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election now regret their vote.

Relatively few transgender athletes participate in high school and collegiate sports.

One of the largest donors to Texas Gov.

Large majorities of Americans favor ethics reforms for members of Congress and Supreme Court justices, according to new data from Public Religion Research Institute.

An increasing number of Americans consider Donald Trump a threat to democracy and even more believe the nation is headed in the wrong direction, according to a new study by Public Religion Research Institute.

Imagine driving two hours to support a political candidate, spending your own money, using your own platform and bringing more than 200,000 social media followers into the Republican political conversation — only to be escorted out like an unwanted strang…

As the nation’s wealthiest United Methodist church readies to vote on a proposed split with its denomination, some church members are weighing in publicly with their opinions.

Amid an ongoing dispute about requiring faculty to sign a statement on human sexuality and gender roles, a theater professor at Ouachita Baptist University went public Oct. 20 with his intent to resign rather than sign.

When my book, Lettering from A to Z, was published in October 2020, its purpose was to provide information to explain, teach and encourage creatives.

The Trump administration wants to change a Clinton-era program designed to help working single mothers afford child care to instead help married, stay-at-home parents offset the cost of staying home.

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My weekend started with a follow suggestion for Mark Driscoll.

As I neared the end of my pregnancy, I took the same drive on a giant highway I do almost every day to get to work.

You know the Saturday I mean.

When I was a kid, playing sports was a big deal for me and those in my family.

Civil rights and voting rights organizations have sued the U.S.

An Oklahoma education board rejected the application of a Jewish K-12 school despite a recent federal decision enabling the project to continue.

People who identify as Christians but give money to Mainline churches and organizations aren’t actually Christians because they’re giving money to organizations that support LGBTQ people and abortion.

Once exclusive to Western counterculture, psychedelics have increasingly drawn the attention of medical researchers, corporations, and politicians.

When a Florida Christian organization created an initiative to provide backpacks full of necessities and comfort items to children whose parents have been detained or deported by federal immigration officials, its goal was twofold.

Pope Leo XIV gave strong indications Friday that he was recovering well from lung cancer surgery and was very much in charge of running the Catholic Church, speaking on the phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin, meeting with top aides...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the parties in his coalition seem to be losing support heading into Israel’s first election since Oct. 7 – with one exception.

The last widely recognized public execution in the United States took place on Aug. 14, 1936, in Owensboro, Ky.

Nearly 20 years ago, I opposed the execution of Saddam Hussein.

I’m glad Pete Hegseth wants to livestream the firing squad execution of Nidal Malik Hasan.

On Wednesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio gave a speech while standing in front of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece.

Just weeks after President Donald Trump promised to send all Americans $5,000 apiece if Republicans retain control of the House and Senate in the midterm elections, 20 million senior adults received unexpected $90 deposits from Medicare.

The call came in the early evening on a summer’s day.

Tennessee execution survivor Christa Pike was thought to be on the brink of death in a Nashville hospital when the 50-year-old’s eyes suddenly popped open, one of her lawyers said Oct. 7.

Judson University hosted Turning Point USA’s “America: Love it or Leave It” college campus tour Oct. 6 in a chapel packed with the organization’s supporters and only a few protesters outside.

In Texas, the 2026 midterm election is a fight between two poorly understood brands of religion filtered through the oil business.

In the heated news coverage of what’s at stake in the 2026 midterms, state supreme court races are drawing relatively little attention.

During the Battle of Chickamauga in 1863, a Union commander mistakenly pulled a division out of its defensive line only minutes before Confederates assaulted that very spot.

Pope Leo XIV urged Catholic bishops to accompany families facing “limits, wounds and apparent failure,” continuing the pastoral approach of his predecessor, Pope Francis, as he addressed a Vatican gathering marking the 10th anniversary of “Amoris Laetitia…

This year marks the 500th anniversary of the publication of “Thet Nyia Testamentit på Swensko” (The New Testament in Swedish), which was the first complete New Testament printed in the Swedish language.

xAI, owner of the Grok chatbot and image generator, is suing the state of Minnesota to defend its right to produce and host nonconsensual AI-generated nudified images.

Imagine my excitement the other night when I got advance notice about a personal appearance Oct. 3 by Rob Wittman, my U.S.

The Southern Baptist Convention appears to be returning to its deeply oppressive and problematic roots.

Vanderbilt Divinity School has handed administrative control to Vanderbilt University in a procedure called “receivership” that has no precedent in American theological education.

One of the biggest ironies among conservatives today is that they complain so much about “fake news” while watching Fox News.

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Israelis will come together to commemorate the third anniversary of the Hamas attack.

The latest warning about the Republican Party’s far-right turn has come from the unlikeliest of places: conservative commentator, George W.

A team of researchers from Sivas Cumhuriyet University in Turkey is investigating a long-standing claim: that a boat-shaped geological formation in the country’s east contains the remains of Noah’s Ark.

Earlier this month, a lawsuit was filed against Pembroke Hill School and former teacher Michael Jones for allegedly sexually abusing a fourth grade student during the 2021-2022 academic year.