13+ hour, 27+ min ago  (728+ words) (RNS) " A new report created by a pair of evangelical Christian organizations is raising alarms about the effects of President Donald Trump's mass deportation effort on families, arguing that more than 1 million people could be "torn apart" from their families…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago  (529+ words) (RNS) " In the weeks since Charlie Kirk's assassination, American Christians have chosen strange epitaphs to memorialize the popular conservative pundit." "If Charlie Kirk lived in the biblical times, he would have been the 13th disciple, said U. S. Rep. Troy Nehls in a…...

7+ mon, 1+ day ago  (716+ words) (RNS) " Recent leadership changes in the Middle East show the evangelical world outside the US moving away from Christian Zionism toward a politics of mercy. The post In the Middle East, evangelicals are abandoning politically centered theology for peace appeared…...

7+ mon, 4+ day ago  (572+ words) (RNS) " As a historian of American Christianity, I've visited my fair share of megachurches over the years, and I have watched my share of Christian right political rallies. Watching the memorial service for Charlie Kirk showed the two kinds of…...

7+ mon, 1+ week ago  (236+ words) (RNS) " In the wake of Sunday's memorial service for Charlie Kirk (Sept. 21), New York Times columnist David French tried to explain how a stadium packed with evangelical Christians could at once applaud Erika Kirk's moving forgiveness of her husband's assassin…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago  (638+ words) (RNS) " Growing up as a child of a Focus on the Family executive in the 1990s, Amber Cantorna-Wylde belonged to a seemingly idyllic family at the epicenter of American evangelicalism. "There was an expectation that was put on us, because of…...

10+ mon, 1+ week ago  (566+ words) The congregation interrupted Dr. Jeffress" statement several times with rousing applause and responded with a standing ovation, expressing solidarity with their pastor"s remarks and agreement with President Trump"s actions, before kneeling for prayer for the President, the American…...

10+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1088+ words) DALLAS (RNS) " For the second year in a row, a move to bar churches with women pastors from the nation's largest Protestant denomination failed. A proposed amendment to the Southern Baptist Convention's constitution, which would have kept any church that…...