4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1085+ words) WACO, Texas – If you saw Dr. Charles Ramsey’s warm smile today, you wouldn’t guess he had lived a perilous life. He is a university chaplain at Baylor University, serving as a spiritual or pastoral resource for students, faculty and the…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (773+ words) “Look No Further!” a billboard on the side of the highway beckons, drawing my gaze toward the red cover of a Bible. “You Are Worthy of Redemption!” Not far away, another sign urges me to “Keep Christ in Christmas.” Then…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (541+ words) (ANALYSIS) In 1843, Karl Marx called religion “the opium of the people.” He framed faith as a cheap chemical cheat code used by the ruling class to keep peasants from running riot. Marx envisioned a future in which human beings would…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (506+ words) (REVIEW) At Crowley’s Ridge College in Paragould, Ark., where I teach history, we begin each class with a verse of the day to encourage students and give them a grounding, reorienting start to the morning. I am also struck by…...

2+ week, 6+ hour ago   (411+ words) Protestant pastors register the greatest distrust in artificial intelligence interpreting “contested” Scriptures, Barna said in its latest State of the Church release in partnership with Gloo, but few pastors would abandon the technology altogether. Only 5 percent of pastors reject AI…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (982+ words) About 25 years ago, I wrote two “On Religion” columns examining the Church of Rome’s priest shortage — through the eyes of faithful mothers, with the help of a priest who had led a seminary. The headline: “Fathers, mothers & Catholic sons.” The…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (991+ words) OKLAHOMA CITY — María Ruiz Scaperlanda is looking for a miracle. More specifically, she’s seeking a miracle that can be attributed — and authenticated — to the intercession of Blessed Stanley Francis Rother. That’s the final step for Rother — the first person born…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (871+ words) As a recently-converted Christian, Christopher Beth went on a mission trip to the Brazilian Amazon with his daughter in 2012. He had no inkling the trip would change his life. “It broke me a bit,” Beth said of the mission trip....

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (544+ words) When pastors look out from the pulpit and congregants glance around the pews, most say they see a church with people from across the generations. Almost 4 in 5 pastors (78%) and 9 in 10 churchgoers (91%) believe their church is multigenerational, with a good number…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (161+ words) Religion in the United States “works” differently for Asian Americans compared to African Americans. The average white American doesn’t think about religion the same way, or practice their faith in the same patterns, as Hispanic Americans. Race is a central…...