​Church in Indonesia Told to Halt Use of Building​

Officials in Indonesia’s East Java province, pressured by local Muslim residents, have ordered a church to stop using its building for worship services, citing the potential for social tension. On July 20, residents of the Sukalipuro area in Dermo...

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​Christian Convert Who Fled Iran and Was Ousted From U.S. Finds a New Home​

The young woman became the face of migrants deported by the United States to Panama. She was locked up in a hotel, detained in a camp in the Darién jungle and stranded in a country where she knew neither the language nor anyone else. Later...

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​Dolly Parton, who had ties to Churches of Christ, dies at 80​

The black-and-white picture of the newlywed couple appeared in a 1966 directory of the Radnor Church of Christ in Nashville. Mrs. Dean, who met her future husband on the day she moved to Music City after her 1964 high school graduation, was better...

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​Standing firm: Christian film series takes shape in Hartselle​

A Christian action-drama combining martial arts, faith and stories of redemption is being brought to life in Hartselle, with local businesses, churches, families and martial arts students helping turn the community into a film set. Stand Firm a...

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​SpaceX to build $100B rocket launch facility in Louisiana​

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry on Tuesday announced the state’s new $100 billion partnership with SpaceX to build a massive new rocket launch site in the state. A video unveiled plans for a spaceport to be built in Vermilion Parish in southern...

​Hospitality and Love: Learning from a Marine and Beth Moore​

This week, I ran across two stories that struck me. They could not be more divergent in some ways, but in other ways, they echoed. Both had to do with faith communities, how one directly responded to a threat, and how another refused to...

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​The song of praise I did not sing​

I have lost at least three tires to rocks in the Arkansas mountains in the last 10 years. The number may be higher, but those are the ones I can count off the top of my head. (I also lost three more to nails in the same mountain one time, but for the...

​Christian nationalists’ professed support for religious pluralism is often drowned out by perceptions that Christians are under threat

Christian nationalism, a worldview that sees the United States as a Christian nation and believes that Christianity should have a privileged role in American civic life, has been shown to be related to a host of social attitudes. Research shows that people...

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​Christianity Is Not a Tool​

On today’s episode, writer Kelly Chapman joins Virginia and Germán. According to the discourse, it’s fashionable to be religious. There’s also a lot of talk about returning to traditional modes of life—emphasis on getting married, having kids...

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​U.S. Senate hearing attack on Douglas Mastriano was an attack on Christianity​

Out of the gate, U.S. Democratic senators, at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on July 16, 2026, began a coordinated attack upon President Donald Trump’s ambassador nominee to the Slovak Republic, PA State Sen. Douglas...

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​A Lesson Wasted​

On January 6, 2021, a group of Donald Trump’s staunchest supporters set up a makeshift gallows beneath a cold gray sky just outside the United States Capitol. Those would-be hangmen later joined the rioters who stormed its halls, where...

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​The Obama ICE Problem, or Praying Like a Dog​

About a year into my pastorate in Iowa City, a desperate woman who heard that I had grown up in Burkina Faso and that I spoke French asked to meet with me at the church. She was originally from Congo, and figuring I would easily and...

​They Said His “Southern Accent” Made Him Sound “Unintelligent”–So He Apologizes with a Southern Flare​

The internet is a mean place. People using the mask of social media to voice their insults on innocent bystanders like this Georgia grown cowboy who may say things like “Y’all” and “Fixin’ to.” Instead of trying to get even Chad Prather just thought...

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​99-Year-Old Ballerina Has No Plans to Quit Teaching Her Students​

God puts unique talents and strength inside each of us and He expects us to use them throughout our entire lives. Our physical bodies might age over the years but the inner spark God gives us can stay bright. When we wake up every morning...

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