A Lifeway Research study of 1,000 evangelical and Black Protestant male churchgoers and 473 men’s ministry leaders highlighted the importance of dedicated men’s ministries.
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Walk along the River Thames, and you can encounter thousands of years of history through artifacts that wash ashore. Some “mudlarkers” spend significant time looking for the treasures — and now a nearby cathedral has named its first Mudlark-in-Residence to help visitors learn about the area’s history.
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Mohler’s comments in the 2026 book “Five Views on Christian Nationalism,” which proved contentious, were based on the supposition of drafting a new constitution for a fractured nation in the year 2099.
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(OPINION) The complexities of Jewish-American identity don’t fit in compartmentalized racial binaries. Jewish identity is inherited, interpreted, and observed differently on an individual-to-individual basis. While heritage and ancestry are certainly technical aspects of Jewish identity, there are several contemporary instances that complicate its resonance.
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We revisit Peter Jennings’ warning about the faith gap in newsrooms, using a teenager’s reported healing and vision of the Virgin Mary to argue that journalists should investigate religious claims with the same rigor, curiosity and openness they bring to other complex mysteries.
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Clemente Lisi was a 26-year-old general assignment reporter for the New York Post on Sept. 11, 2001. “Every day you’d get up, and you didn’t know what you were gonna do,” said Lisi, now Religion Unplugged’s executive editor. “One day it was covering a fire. The next day you’re covering a murder.” On that Tuesday, he was told that a plane had hit the World Trade Center.
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(ANALYSIS) The Strip has not vanished, and its “Sin City” label remains relevant. The Nevada Gaming Control Board reported $8.82 billion in gross gaming revenue (what operators keep after payouts) for the Strip in 2025. But the world has changed. Researchers struggle to describe online gambling today — from $100 billion global GGR in 2023 to a Gaming Compliance International estimate of $5.9 trillion in unregulated activity.
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These prisoners are not only eyewitnesses to what happened inside Iran’s prisons. They are also earwitnesses: people whose knowledge of imprisonment comes partly through what they heard when they could not see.
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The 9/11 attacks are often remembered as a single event. That morning, 19 terrorists turned commercial airliners into weapons and the modern era of terrorism began. A total of 2,977 people died in the terrorist attacks, the deadliest to ever take place on U.S. soil. To understand 9/11, one need to take a look at the Islamic radicalization of a movement that few in the West took seriously.
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(ANALYSIS) Of the many things said about the South over the years, “Bible Belt” is the cliché that just won’t die.
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(OPINION) Marx saw religion as a top-down sedative administered by elites to dull the pain of feudalism. History offers a different perspective.
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Civilian deaths increased 51 percent and abductions rose 153 percent between October and December 2025, compared to the same period a year before, researchers said. Months later, beginning in April, the government began arresting and convicting Boko Haram terrorists and others of related crimes.
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(ESSAY) For millions, 9/11 divided life into a “before” and an “after.” From a Christian perspective, looking back on that day reminds us of the fragility of life. The events of 9/11 changed the world, but they did not change the character of God. He remains the God who sees the brokenhearted, strengthens the weary and promises that one day suffering will end.
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(ANALYSIS) Prediction markets are rapidly transforming betting from sports into wagers on politics, disasters, wars, celebrities and virtually anything imaginable. Their explosive growth raises questions about gambling, addiction, market manipulation, insider information, public trust and morality, while regulators, lawmakers, religious leaders and ethics experts struggle to respond.
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(ANALYSIS) Throughout his life, Berry, who died on Aug. 31, was a leading advocate of environmental stewardship. You might recognize his belief system in what’s known as creation care today. It embraces a responsibility to care for the Earth and all its creatures. Berry increasingly saw that ethic violated by the industrialization of agriculture and ignored by a dominionist theology, preached by some prominent American Christians, which holds that humans have a God-given right to exploit the Earth’s resources.
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(ANALYSIS) I learned she had died while gazing around inside an airplane approaching the Rocky Mountains. Someone with the funds to buy on-board WiFi had a news program playing on his tablet and I saw the headline. I was stunned, even though I have been following her health struggles for several months. She managed to hide any information that pointed to cancer.
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(ANALYSIS) Texas politicians, however, portray sharia as a threat to American law. That suspicion has now produced official action against the Islamic Tribunal, a Dallas-based organization that offers religious arbitration, a process where parties agree to submit disputes to a religious panel, the way any two businesses might agree to skip court and use a private arbitrator instead. Much of the tribunal’s caseload is Muslim women seeking religious divorces.
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(ANALYSIS) The Paris Grand Mosque — a cultural landmark located in the heart of the city — is celebrating its centenary. Built as a war memorial to honor Muslim soldiers killed during World War I, it was the first permanent mosque in the French capital and remains its only mosque built with a minaret and a dome.
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(ANALYSIS) As the situation in the country continues to deteriorate, important questions must be asked about where to go from here. What is the future of Afghanistan for women and religious minorities?
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Science and religion need not conflict. Baháʼí teachings show how together they help humanity understand both the physical world and its deeper meaning through reason, observation and faith.
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