4+ day, 10+ 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…...

5+ day, 28+ min 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, 7+ 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…...

6+ day, 10+ hour ago   (894+ words) (ANALYSIS) For most of his 92 years, Wendell Berry farmed his Lane’s Landing homestead in Henry County, Kentucky, using methods that embraced the land. He preferred draft horses to diesel-powered tractors and used crop rotation and manure fertilizer to naturally nurture…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (591+ words) (ANALYSIS) When Robert Lee Parton died in 2000, the illiterate former sharecropper asked his large musical family to sing “If We Never Meet Again (This Side of Heaven),” his favorite country-gospel song. “If we never meet again this side of heaven…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (280+ words) (ANALYSIS) Ultra-Orthodox Jewish families are among the most distinctive and increasingly influential communities in Israeli society. Their growing presence is visible not only in the streets, where large families and traditional dress make them immediately recognizable, but also in politics,…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (831+ words) NASHVILLE — Little over a decade ago, J.D. Vance was an atheist Yale Law School graduate obsessed with pursuing achievement in private life. Today he is a United States vice president who professes faith in Christ and rejects upward mobility as…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (350+ words) Most practicing Jews in the United States fall into one of three categories. 

 There are the Orthodox Jews, who are committed to following Jewish law to the letter and who uphold all the traditions set by rabbis over the centuries....

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, 10+ 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…...