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As a 21-year-old, serving my first full-time church “gig” as youth director at Calvary United Methodist Church in Paris, Texas, I quickly learned just how influential Highland Park United Methodist Church was.

Voting is the “means by which we exercise our faith, how we change it with our hands,” a Muslim cleric told a Dallas interfaith group Oct. 23.

Arkansas Secretary of State candidate Kelly Grappe was just doing the good candidate thing when she accepted an invitation to speak to a group of Americans who happened to be Muslims, she said.

Editor’s note: This presentation was made to a gathering of the Forum on the Military Chaplaincy held at Brite Divinity School at TCU on Monday, Oct. 19.

This is a developing story and will be updated as new information becomes available.

Ken Sehested’s column on remembering St.

The Civil Rights Division of the U.S.

Arkansas Gov.

Shively Smith is a biblical scholar at Boston University (where Howard Thurman served as dean of chapel and a doctoral student named Martin Luther King Jr. listened to his sermons and learned at his feet).

At least two Catholic bishops have apologized for appearing to endorse President Donald Trump during an Oval Office meeting they claim was manipulated by the White House.

Over the past few months, Israeli media has been full of reports of Israeli holidaymakers in Europe, Asia and the Americas being harassed or physically attacked after being identified as Israeli.

Nearly 10% of Protestant churchgoers in the United States attend a multisite church, many of which are growing at faster rates than leadership pipelines can keep up with, according to a new research report that sheds light on the challenges...

As tech companies race to build the most powerful artificial intelligence, some are also asking how to teach a chatbot right from wrong.

The right has a growing empathy problem.

Franklin Graham turned to social media not once but twice recently to urge Christians to vote Republican in in the midterm elections.

Southern Baptist megachurch pastor Josh Howerton welcomed one of the most controversial Republicans on the ballot to church today while two days earlier condemning another Texas pastor as a “heretic” for supporting James Talarico.

What does the manga character Ino have to do with the fake trans mailers in the Texas midterms?

Thirty-five clergy or family members of clergy who have served or been members of Highland Park United Methodist Church issued a letter Oct. 23 opposing this weekend’s vote on disaffiliation with The United Methodist Church.

Donald Trump has cancelled the planned public livestream of Nidal Hasan’s execution.

A federal appeals court has revived a lawsuit filed by FaithWorks and more than two dozen other religious organizations to prevent immigration enforcement actions in houses of worship and other sensitive locations.

Years after he helped create the mega-popular Left Behind novels about the end times, Jerry Jenkins is back with a new novel about the beginning times written with Dallas Theological Seminary President Mark Yarbrough.

On my public Facebook page I receive (and this is not an exaggeration) about 900 comments a day.

Pope Leo XIV’s lung cancer diagnosis redirected global attention to the human elements of the Vatican.

I served in the U.S.

Less than two weeks ahead of midterm elections, a group of Catholic bishops joined President Donald Trump at the White House, praying over him during a prayer meeting in the Oval Office, seen in a video shared on social media.

Elections are typically framed as a choice for voters.

The explosion of AI has been matched by a rising dread: That machines will take our jobs and render human beings obsolete in the workforce.

According to Frederick Buechner, one of my favorite writers, “Generally speaking, if you want to know who you really are, as distinct from who you like to think you are, keep an eye on where your feet take you.”

Grand Canyon University has received approval from the Arizona Supreme Court to open its new College of Law before receiving accreditation from the American Bar Association.

As evangelical Christians and others toss around the latest stories about whatever is happening at Christianity Today, something just doesn’t add up for me.

On Oct. 21, U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff sat across from Russian President Vladimir Putin in St.

In a Bible class I attended recently, the discussion centered on Romans 5.

In case you missed it, James Gunn’s revamped DC Universe just concluded its initial season of Lanterns.

Over the past few months, I’ve been asking others concerned about Donald Trump’s potential interference in the mid-term elections: “What can we do to stop him?”

As voters in suburban Kansas City go to the polls for midterm elections, they will not be voting at two locations of Resurrection Church that usually are polling sites.

When many Christians begin searching the Scriptures while considering how to craft their personal political theology, they find themselves naturally drawn toward the sacred “red letters” where Jesus speaks.

These days, it costs at least $50 for Jason Miller to fill up his midsize SUV at the gas station.

There’s a video circulating online of Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff, speaking at a State Department conference.

Abdul El-Sayed’s campaign for Michigan’s U.S.

The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship announced that Laura Davis and Stephen Cook will share leadership of Dawnings, its congregational discernment initiative.

Atlanta megachurch pastor Philip Anthony Mitchell wants to clarify that leaked footage of him is not what it sounds like.

A new administrative headquarters and $1 million endowment will enable the Cooperating Baptist Fellowship of Oklahoma to continue its mission of serving Christ and fighting Christian nationalism, Executive Director Kyle Tubbs said.

A lawsuit filed against Pawleys Island Community Church in South Carolina for allegedly allowing a registered sex offender to work around children has been dismissed.

This week I caught up with Rick Pidcock, a friend from the shared publishing world of Baptist News Global who has now written a riveting new book, Weapons of Worship: How the Songs of Evangelicalism Form the Soundtrack of Extremism.

The current senior minister of Highland Park United Methodist Church and his two immediate predecessors have sent a message to congregants about why they should vote to leave The United Methodist Church.

In an apparent attempt to stoke anti-trans sentiment leading up to midterm elections, Texas is being inundated with purposefully inflammatory trans rights flyers from an unknown sender.

Kansas long has been known as the launching pad for a fantasy story about the “Wizard of Oz.”

In tennis, players hit shot after shot back and forth over the net and then between the lines into their opponent’s court.

Marc Bernhard, a member of Germany’s far-right AfD party, told Georgetown students Monday night at an event hosted by the university’s College Republicans that the Holocaust is “used as a weapon against Germany.”

Partially, yes.