Posts tagged Christianity Today
📰 He’s Fired! No, He’s Not! Behind The Scenes Of The Week’s Craziest Religion Story 🔌

News doesn’t happen on a 9-to-5 schedule. Particularly during the 24/7 era of social media, journalists find themselves on the clock pretty much all the time.

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Gloo Acquires ChurchSalary And Church Law & Tax From Christianity Today

Gloo, a technology company that describes itself as helping “build a more connected ministry” has acquired two sister news sites from Christianity Today: Church Law & Tax and ChurchSalary. The deal closed on May 1, but the financial terms of the acquisition were not made public.

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Story Of The Year Finalists To Speak At Religion News Association Awards

This week’s Weekend Plug-in highlights five finalists for the Religion News Association’s Story of the Year honor. Plus as always, catch up on all the best reads and top headlines in the world of faith.

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Is Celebrity Culture Eroding American Evangelicalism? This Publishing Insider Says Yes

(OPINION) Author Katelyn Beaty’s new book “Celebrities for Jesus: How Personas, Platforms, and Profits are Hurting the Church” diagnoses a problem that’s pretty much absent in mainline Protestantism, Black Protestantism (there are some glaring exceptions in the health-and-wealth world), Catholicism and other U.S. religious bodies. Why is celebrity culture so magnified in White evangelicalism?

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Key Anti-Trump Evangelical Ponders What Seven Years Have Wrought In America

(OPINION) This is the 11th Guy Memo in a year guiding the media and other observers on dynamics within U.S. evangelical Protestantism. Though made up of organizationally chaotic fiefdoms, the movement’s impact rested upon substantial solidarity in belief and social outlook compared with other religious sectors. Then seven years ago the disruptive force known as Donald J. Trump emerged.

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This Political Reporter Says Journalism Has Made Him A Better Christian — He's Not Alone

Is it hard to be a Christian and a journalist? Is it possible to be a Christian and a journalist? This week’s Weekend Plug-in highlights recent first-person pieces that explore these questions. Plus, as always, catch up on all the best reads and top headlines in the world of faith?

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Why News Of Sexual Harassment Inside Christianity Today Is Doubly Shocking

This week’s Weekend Plug-in explains why news of sexual harassment inside Christianity Today magazine was so shocking. Plus, as always, catch up on all the best reads and top headlines in the world of faith.

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What Is ‘Christian Nationalism’ And Is It Connected to the Jan. 6 Insurrection?

(OPINION) The latest bid to shape public perceptions of the concept of Christian nationalism is a 63-page “Report on Christian Nationalism and the January 6 Insurrection,” issued last month by the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty and the Freedom From Religion Foundation.

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In Post-Pandemic America, Will Sagging Church Health Damage Public Health?

(OPINION) America's religious congregations have, over all, suffered steady erosion in attendance, membership and vitality since around 2000. Analysts fret that worse may occur after the current COVID-19 emergency finally subsides because myriads of members are now accustomed to worshiping online rather than in person.

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Do Christians care what Trump says about them behind closed doors?

This week’s Weekend Plug-in explores whether religious supporters of President Donald Trump care what he says about them behind closed doors. Plus, our roundup of the top religion headlines and best reads of the last week.

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Will we soon live in a world without Mormons and Southern Baptists?

This week’s Weekend Plug-in summary highlights discussions over a possible new name for the Southern Baptist Convention as well as one group dropping the term “evangelicals” from its name. Plus, find our usual roundup of the top reads from the world of faith.

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Why the evangelical editor who called for Trump’s removal became Catholic

In emails with Religion Unplugged, former editor of evangelical magazine Christianity Today Mark Galli explains the timeline of his recently announced conversion to Catholicism and how it overlapped with his last two years at the influential publication, including his viral 2019 editorial calling for President Donald Trump’s impeachment.

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Dirty words spice up the week's religion news — not for the first time

This week’s Weekend Plug-in summary highlights religion news related to a new book by Michael Cohen. Warning: Profanity is involved, along with President Donald Trump and former Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr.

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For lessons on closed houses of worship, look at 1918 flu pandemic

Not until the COVID-19 outbreak did I learn about the global influenza pandemic of 1918 — known colloquially as the Spanish flu — and my family’s connection to it.

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Newsrooms should learn the denominational complexity of US Christianity

(OPINION) News organizations are trying to catch up to how religion is influencing American politics. Coverage would improve if more reporters understood the subgroups that comprise blanket terms like Protestant and Catholic.

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'Evangelicals for Trump' coalition kicks off at hispanic megachurch

The coalition backing President Donald Trump officially launched on Jan. 3 at El Rey Jesús, a Miami megachurch.  The coalition was announced in the aftermath of a Christianity Today editorial that called for Trump’s removal from office.

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The Best of Religion Journalism in 2019

The Media Project staff, board and members worldwide submitted nominations for the best efforts in religion journalism that we admired most in 2019.

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Christianity Today's editorial: Much ado about nothing?

A surprising editorial from the evangelical magazine Christianity Today called for President Donald Trump’s removal from office. Reactions have ranged from shock to shrugs, including disagreement about how surprising the piece was. 

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What the U.S. presidential candidates are doing to court religious voters

President Donald Trump and his Democratic opponents are courting voters with less than a year before the 2020 election — and many of them are chasing support from a variety of religious voters.

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A female Muslim lawyer to watch on religious liberty issues

(OPINION) Asma Uddin is the author of the provocatively titled “When Islam Is Not a Religion.” Her advocacy for all religions, including those with adherents who might oppose hers, is a lesson in the universality of freedom of religion that the Constitution intends.

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