The Fetzer Institute study finds that more than 80% of Americans say they are spiritual in some way, and that the more spiritual a person says they are, the more likely they are to engage in politics.
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The newest EWTN News/RealClear Opinion Research poll on Catholic priorities this election season finds that while former Vice President Joe Biden enjoys a 12-point margin over Donald Trump, the president continues to do best among those who regularly attend Mass on Sundays.
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(REVIEW) Justin Bieber’s newest single “Holy” features Gospel influences and Christian lyrics. It’s been announced as a “new era” in his music. This song isn’t the first time he’s explored faith in his work, but “Holy” does accompany recent proclamations of Bieber’s evangelical Christian faith on social media.
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(ANALYSIS) The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has prompted President Donald Trump to pledge a nominee this week. Frontrunner Amy Coney Barrett, a Catholic, has a record of being anti-abortion and will certainly inflame those on the political left who fear an overturning of Roe v. Wade that legalized abortion.
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Since the early New Testament church met in homes, many startup churches and church plants have met in eccentric, odd and unusual locations, calling themselves churches without walls. As younger Americans continue dropping out of the pews, ministries like Christ Chapel’s college outreach in Ft. Worth leave traditional spaces behind and come to their audience in bars, coffee shops and Zoom.
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(REVIEW) The newest Netflix original, “The Devil All the Time,” takes place in a rural town where God exists but never intervenes. The cast of characters, who are haunted by or participate in evil, are therefore only able to wrestle with their own sin.
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Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Ind., hosted a virtual town hall this week aimed at young, religious Americans in support of 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
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(OPINION) Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates have announced major peace agreements with Israel, with Oman hinting it will join an agreement next, easing tensions and increasing economic opportunities in the Middle East. The peace agreements, with Israel promising not to annex the holy lands in Judea and Samaria, could mean not just long-elusive peace between Palestinians and Israelis but also increasing religious freedom across the region.
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Many studies in education focus on testing, graduation rates and college entrances. For the first time, a new study by the Institute for Family Studies and the American Enterprise Institute links different types of schooling to marriage and family formation.
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Reports in the Ministry Watch database show that the CEOs of the U.S.’s 50 largest faith-based nonprofits are overwhelmingly white and male.
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Many evangelical Christians are giving money to International Fellowship of Christians and Jews despite the fact that the fellowship does not promote the Gospel and pays its leaders large salaries. Do they know what organization they’re giving to?
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Taylor University fired professor Jim Spiegel for refusing to remove a video entitled “Little Hitler” from YouTube. In doing so, they may have violated an agreement signed with all faculty members.
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The struggle for a just and equal society isn’t only about Black people and racism, said Rev. William Barber at the 16th Street Baptist Church 57 years after the Ku Klux Klan bombing that killed four young girls. He called for communities of faith to unify around shared values and concern for the vulnerable, and to reject the divisiveness that leads to violence.
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(REVIEW) While 83-year-old Pope Francis is in good health, that hasn’t stopped speculation over who will come next. In his new book, author George Weigel examines the problems affecting the church and what the next pope will need to do in order to address them. Think of it like a very long to-do memo for the next head of the Catholic church.
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The data reveals a surprisingly complex picture of a religious group that can feel pulled in opposite directions on issues of policy and partisanship, still seeking to find an identity in American politics. While American Muslims support the Democrats by a landslide, they don’t agree on many progressive policy priorities.
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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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At 93 years and 141 days old, Pope Benedict XVI became the longest-living pope in the Catholic Church’s history. His papacy was a tumultuous one, seeing a series of scandals brought to light involving the sexual predation of young boys by members of the clergy and a still on-going battle for transparency within the Vatican Bank.
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(ANALYSIS) Netflix will release Sundance 2019 winner “Cuties” on Sept. 9. Ahead of its release, Muslims have criticized the movie for glorifying a growth away from Islam. Muslims and others — including evangelical Christians — have called for boycotts against the movie because of its sexualization of children.
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The son of evangelists, Floyd Brady left the church in his teens and hit the road touring with a metal rock band, singing songs filled with hatred for religion. Decades later, he’s welcoming “outcasts” at Michigan’s Victory Biker Church by embracing, not fighting, the road warrior culture he came to love.
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(REVIEW) Norman Lebrecht’s Genius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947 paints a complex portrait of Jewish figures and their relationships to each other. He points out that their brilliance and influence was the result of their collective anxiety.
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