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Crossroads Podcast: Have Abortion Clinics Become More Sacred Than Churches?

Crossroads Podcast: Have Abortion Clinics Become More Sacred Than Churches?

On Jan. 18, a cell of anti-ICE demonstrators crashed a Sunday service at the Cities Church, a Southern Baptist congregation in St. Paul, Minnesota. Debates about the legality of this protest have been defined by the Red vs. Blue divide in American politics, which has dominated the Donald Trump era. On the cultural right, this protest was seen as a violation of the First Amendment religious-liberty rights of the worshippers. On the left, efforts to prosecute the activists were seen as a violation of their First Amendment free-speech rights.

Biola University Expands With New Phoenix Seminary Location

Biola University Expands With New Phoenix Seminary Location

While many Christian colleges face financial challenges and closures, Biola University is expanding by acquiring Phoenix Seminary’s assets and establishing a Phoenix branch of Talbot School of Theology. The move will create one of the nation’s largest interdenominational seminaries and broaden Biola’s regional reach.

From Unfinished Icon To Sacred Landmark: Barcelona’s Sagrada Família Enters Its Final Chapter

From Unfinished Icon To Sacred Landmark: Barcelona’s Sagrada Família Enters Its Final Chapter

(ANALYSIS) Once the cranes disappear, the basilica will cease from being an evolving construction project and instead become something more fixed — a monument subject to preservation battles, increased tourism pressures and the inevitable weight of history. Nonetheless, Pope Leo’s Spain trip, with a stop in Barcelona, represents the fulfillment of decades of hard work.

The Women Of Faith Who Shaped Revolutionary America

The Women Of Faith Who Shaped Revolutionary America

During the American Revolution, women like Abigail Adams asserted moral and spiritual authority despite lacking legal rights. Through religion, household leadership and revival movements, they shaped communities and laid groundwork for later reforms in abolition, education and women’s rights.

‘Fierce Wolves’: Mark Driscoll Accuses Former Lieutenant Of Trying To Split Trinity Church

‘Fierce Wolves’: Mark Driscoll Accuses Former Lieutenant Of Trying To Split Trinity Church

Christianity, News, North AmericaDaniel SillimanJune 5, 2026Daniel Silliman, news, Mark Driscoll, Christianity, Secondary feature, conflictComment

Theology Thin As A Communion Wafer: Why ‘Speed Demon’ Is Horror Deconstruction Slop

Theology Thin As A Communion Wafer: Why ‘Speed Demon’ Is Horror Deconstruction Slop

A low-budget movie, cheesy horror that is literally just “The Exorcist” meets “Speed” and whose theology is as thin as a communion wafer. In theory, this can be an opportunity for an actually really fun campy horror experience. Unfortunately, it’s far more interested in stale religious deconstruction than it is in classic scares.

Out Of The Sacristy And Into The Pub: G.K. Chesterton’s Legacy Was Making Christianity Cool

Out Of The Sacristy And Into The Pub: G.K. Chesterton’s Legacy Was Making Christianity Cool

(ANALYSIS) G.K. Chesterton blended humor and philosophy; he turned belief into something wondrous, culturally alive, and fiercely imaginative. The man made God fun. That sounds like a modest achievement until you consider how desperately the task still needs doing, and how spectacularly everyone since has failed at it.

Catholic Leaders Embrace Pope Leo’s AI Stance, Ponder Implementation

Catholic Leaders Embrace Pope Leo’s AI Stance, Ponder Implementation

Who is AI for and who is it leaving behind? Those were the central questions of Pope Leo’s first encyclical “Magnifica Humanitas” (“Magnificent Humanity”). By addressing the challenge and comparing it to the Industrial Revolution, the pope positioned the Catholic Church not as a casual observer of the tech age change, but an active participant in shaping its future.

Grassroots Push To Designate June As ‘Fidelity Month’ Expands

Grassroots Push To Designate June As ‘Fidelity Month’ Expands

A grassroots movement to designate June as “Fidelity Month” is gaining support from faith leaders, public officials and advocates who say it promotes faithfulness to God, family, community and country, encouraging Americans to reclaim values they believe are foundational to a thriving society.

Faith-Based Farm Offers College Students A Taste Of Rural Life

Faith-Based Farm Offers College Students A Taste Of Rural Life

Land of Milk and Honey Farms in Deep Gap, North Carolina — nestled in a mountainous region called the High Country — has found a niche: Faith-based agritourism, offering visitors nature, serenity and even cuddle sessions with lambs. The farm’s name was inspired by a Bible passage in which God promises his people “a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey.”

How African Churches Are Embracing Artificial Intelligence

How African Churches Are Embracing Artificial Intelligence

Matthew Peterson speaks with reporter Joseph Maina about how African AI developers are using their skills to in church services and how pastors view the rise of artificial intelligence.

Chatbots And The Soul: Has AI Transformed Religion?

Chatbots And The Soul: Has AI Transformed Religion?

(ANALYSIS) It seemed inevitable that the first encyclical from the first American pope, the forward-looking and worldly-wise Leo XIV, would focus on the growing furor over artificial intelligence. The pope’s encyclical comes as the culmination of various articles during recent weeks about the implications of AI on faith, ethics and morals.

Elderly Christian Among 31 Sentenced In China Church Crackdown

Elderly Christian Among 31 Sentenced In China Church Crackdown

A court in central China, issued verdicts on May 22 against 31 members of a house church fellowship in one of the largest coordinated prosecutions of Christians in recent years.

UN Probes Religious Violence in Nigeria: Here’s What They Should Do

UN Probes Religious Violence in Nigeria: Here’s What They Should Do

(OPINION) An international investigator will visit Nigeria to assess the religious persecution occurring across the country, and there are so many issues that it’s hard to know where she should begin. Will she detail the mass kidnappings that have occurred regularly over the past decade? The religious and tribal fighting? The terrorist organizations wreaking havoc on the country?

Trump Pledges $100M To Cuba, But Only If Faith‑Based Groups Distribute It

Trump Pledges $100M To Cuba, But Only If Faith‑Based Groups Distribute It

(ANALYSIS) The United States is prepared to provide $100 million in humanitarian assistance to Cuba, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on May 13. But there’s a catch.

Why Is The Church Ignoring The Growing Sports Gambling Crisis?

Why Is The Church Ignoring The Growing Sports Gambling Crisis?

Online sports gambling is sweeping the nation, luring Americans with promises of harmless fun, easy money, and community. And Christians are not immune — many have embraced it as morally acceptable. But as addiction rates climb, few ministries or churches appear to be stepping in to help.

Christianity, News, North America, Solutions, Society, SportsMakella KnowlesMay 30, 2026Makella Knowles, news, sports, sports gambling, churches, Christianity, sport, recharge, Secondary featureComment

A Faith-Based Movement Is Destroying Guns — And Making Them Garden Tools

A Faith-Based Movement Is Destroying Guns — And Making Them Garden Tools

Guns to Gardens has been turning unwanted firearms into garden tools and art for over a decade. Since 2013, this faith-based safe disposal movement has destroyed and repurposed an estimated 13,000-plus guns across the country. The guns are clamped to a table, cut apart and transformed into a pick mattock — a hand tool for loosening soil.

Christianity, Crime, News, North America, Society, SolutionsAlma BeauvaisMay 30, 2026Alma Beauvais, Christianity, news, Menonite, guns, violence, Primary feature, recharge, Secondary feature Comment

Crossroads Podcast: The Pope, The Press And AI

Crossroads Podcast: The Pope, The Press And AI

In this week’s episode, we tackle Pope Leo’s first encyclical and what it means for AI, politics and, more importantly, Catholic doctrine.

‘Is God Is’ Wants Catharsis Through Violence, Replacing Forgiveness With Vengeance

‘Is God Is’ Wants Catharsis Through Violence, Replacing Forgiveness With Vengeance

(REVIEW) “Is God Is” follows twin sisters on a quest to kill their father, who disfigured them as children. Unfortunately, the movie does more than simply offer fictional frontier-style justice to typically underrepresented audiences. It goes so far as to renounce the virtue of forgiveness altogether.

Christianity, Conflict, Film & TV, Religion, Religion News, ReviewJoseph HolmesMay 29, 2026movie review, "is god is", Aleshea Harris, Joseph Holmes, film and TV, forgiveness, religion, revenge, ChristianityComment

Rethinking North Korea: Inside The Christian Roots Of A Political Cult

Rethinking North Korea: Inside The Christian Roots Of A Political Cult

(REVIEW) How did Christianity shape North Korea? A new 745-page book argues the regime built by Kim Il Sung resembles a national religion that borrows some ideas from Christianity — complete with myths, rituals and a central, quasi-divine figure — rather than a typical authoritarian state.