​Weeks after surgery, Leo begins longest trip yet, calls for accessible healthcare​

Even with a portion of his lung removed less than four weeks ago, Pope Leo XIV began his 12-day, three-nation tour of South America by stating that he never thought the longest trip of his pontificate was truly in jeopardy. "I know some...

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​Religious ‘nones’ outnumber white evangelicals as Trump’s 2024 coalition fractures​

Religiously unaffiliated voters significantly outnumbered white evangelical Christians in the 2026 midterm electorate, marking a widening demographic divide as Democrats scored substantial victories and Republicans lost control of Congress...

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​‘Destroying everything segregated’​

Fred Gray has earned many accolades for advancing civil rights, representing the likes of Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks and prosecuting the government for segregation and mistreatment of Black Alabamians. In 2022, President Joe...

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​Cooperative Program Task Force to distribute church giving survey​

An executive-director-appointed task force assigned to study Cooperative Program giving trends among Baptist General Convention of Texas churches will send out a survey in the coming days. BGCT churches can expect to receive an email soon...

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​Israel Responds After News of Impending Aid Cut​

The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement following recent news of President Trump’s plan to end aid to Israel. “U.S. military aid to Israel has always been a cross-the-aisle agreement. Israel has used it both...

​Disability Rights Under Threat: Catholic Scholar Challenges Trump Administration Policies​

Disability rights protections face major changes after Trump administration actions challenge federal requirements for community-based care. A Catholic philosopher and father of twin daughters with disabilities warns that these changes could...

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​John Winthrop, Jr. and the Connecticut Witch Trials​

Most Americans have heard of the infamous Salem Witch Trials of 1692 which condemned 20 people to death, 19 by hanging and one pressed to death by rocks. Fewer know that the first person executed for witchcraft in colonial America was...

​Russell Brand, convicted of rape, told us who he was. Why didn't Christian leaders listen?​

Not all sexual predators hide. Some are right there in plain sight, yukking it up, bragging, doing interviews, and even publishing books about their violent and degrading behavior toward women. And some — like comedian Russell Brand...

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​The Answers Don’t Seem Quite So Simple Now: Reflecting on Kristin Du Mez’s Live Laugh Love​

Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s highly anticipated new book has caused quite a splash this fall and in delivering what it promised has sent ripples throughout the evangelical world. Live Laugh Love tells the story of American evangelical womanhood, or as...

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​Hot Democracy​

As a scholar who has written extensively on politics and masculinity, I feel qualified to share a few thoughts on this week’s blue wave, and more specifically, on the new brand of Democratic masculinity on glorious display. I’ll let “@ellesbells330099”...

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​Should you use A.I. for your church bulletin? Experts see promise and problems​

Mim Scholle was reading an advertisement for a parish women’s group one day when she noticed something strange. Scholle, a Northern Virginia-based parish volunteer and event planner, finished reading the text, and then looked more...

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​The masculinity midterms​

In April, Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas resigned after being accused of having improper relationships with staff, including a former staffer who died by suicide. The Republican who ran to replace him, gun influencer Brandon...

​It took 100 years for someone to point out what van Gogh had hidden in his ‘Café Terrace at Night’​

Vincent van Gogh is world-famous for his paintings, though he didn’t live long enough to see his own success. Since he died in 1890, his works have been analyzed by countless art scholars and historians, with more and more of his...

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​Artist trained in making religious icons turns her classical skills toward sacred icons for endangered species​​

I trained for years in the ancient practice of Byzantine-Russian iconography, under a master iconographer from Russia, learning to apply gold leaf and pigments from ground-up semi-precious stones in the same way artists have for over a thousand...

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