8+ hour, 37+ min ago   (554+ words) AnalysisMark Wingfield | September 13, 2026 If a Methodist church does not recognize the authority of its regional conference or its bishop, is that congregation still a United Methodist church? In its legal dispute with the Horizon West Conference of The United Methodist…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (739+ words) “Do you know where we are?” I asked my 16-year-old son as we turned onto the main road that goes near my parents’ house. “No,” he replied. “My awareness of the city is like disconnected bubbles. Gramma’s neighborhood is one…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (57+ words) In the months after 9/11, St. Paul’s Chapel, a small, undamaged church sitting 100 yards from where the Twin Towers once stood, quickly turned into a relief center for recovery workers. Known as the “Little Chapel That Stood,” the church kept its…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (162+ words) Our world is profoundly distracted, disordered, and scattered. It would be tempting to attribute this to a non-Christian society—to multiplied desires and endless consumer options, to secularized pursuits of shallow pleasure. But Christians fare little better here, bombarded with…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (43+ words) As the High Holy Days approach, rabbis in the United States say their congregations are deeply unsettled by antisemitic threats and aware of sharp divisions in their own communities. But many are also determined to embrace the coming days of…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (27+ 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!”...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (37+ words) I’ve often mentioned Patrick Henry in presentations about Christian Nationalism and religious liberty. But a recent conference at Colonial Williamsburg marked the first time I’ve shared the stage with him — or, at least with a Henry impersonator....

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (381+ words) NewsMark Wingfield | September 9, 2026 A veteran leader of the “conservative resurgence” in the Southern Baptist Convention has publicly challenged Al Mohler’s Christian nationalism. Richard Land is the former head of the SBC Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. He was a foot…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago   (54+ words) The legal action against Second Baptist Church of Houston isn’t dead yet — although it is hanging by a thread. Jeremiah Counsel, the group of church members who filed suit against the leadership of the megachurch over governance changes, has filed…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (875+ words) I once loved attending apologetics seminars and cheered wildly when Christian apologists won debates with skeptics, proving that objective truth and the proclaimed good guys still triumphed. I felt affirmed to be on the right side of moral clarity, where…...