This week marks the five-year anniversary of the COVID-19 lockdown. Mostly, life has returned to normal. But in some ways we still seem to be struggling, our columnist notes.

During a typical week, readers (or podcast listeners) send me emails or messages through various social-media platforms. Often, these people are frustrated or even angry. Most folks are not upset with ...

In the chaos, journalists have struggled to confirm statistics about fatalities, while waves of social media videos claim to ...

Over the years. as a film critic,  I’ve sometimes been asked to change my reviews so that my criticism wouldn’t prevent people from seeing the movie and being impacted by its message. This question ca ...

All Saints Church has a long history of supporting oppressed groups. In the 1940s, their chief pastor protested the ...

In recent weeks, the plight of a group of Iranian asylum-seekers claiming to be converts to Christianity has been followed by The New York Times, helping to shine a light on a story not commonly ...

The U.S. Department of Justice informed Southern Baptist Convention lawyers on Wednesday that its investigation into the SBC and its entities was closed. No sexual abuse-related charges were filed.

The average Southern Baptist church calls the South home, but the only region of the country where those congregations are ...

Mainly, the people who’ve become devoted to their faith did so along a winding path. Some had been to jail. Some were ...

Torturing and killing pastors and priests, prosecuting residents for exercising religious freedom, banning worship and entire ...

Ministers who regret opting out of Social Security may soon get to reverse that decision. In a move lauded by evangelical leaders, U.S. legislators have reintroduced the bipartisan Clergy Act. The act ...

One of the most impactful cultural changes in 21st-century America has been the steady decline in Christian vitality, as ...