The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will not reconsider its landmark 1990 religious freedom decision that lower courts cited in a Colorado dispute over Catholic preschools and LGBTQ families, but it will hear arguments over how that ruling applies in the case.
Read More(ANALYSIS) Adults who attend multiple congregations are more likely to be politically liberal, whereas political conservatives are more likely to always attend one congregation. Researchers also found, among other things, that evangelicals are less likely to attend multiple places of worship than Catholics.
Read MoreBoth U.S. Protestant pastors and churchgoers have a mixed view of artificial intelligence, according to a Lifeway Research study. They aren’t completely opposed to it, but they have concerns about how AI is implemented and its potential influence on Christianity.
Read MoreChina’s Communist Party runs an industrialized system of forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience, enabling transplants and surgically removing the organs while they’re still alive, the book claims. Its publication fuels bipartisan U.S. efforts to impose sanctions, raise accountability, and confront what it portrays as a defining feature of China’s authoritarian rule.
Read MoreThe state of Vermont is one step closer to passing a law that would require healthcare sharing ministries to submit an annual report to the state about its participants and finances. House Bill (HB) 585 includes a section entitled, “Annual Reporting on Health Care Sharing Plans and Arrangements.” It was originally proposed in 2025 as HB 102 by Rep. Conor Casey.
Read MoreWhile many think “primum non nocere” — “First, do no harm” — was an oath created by the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates, it’s actually found in a top-secret bible handed to Hollywood players when they are placed in charge of the box-office franchises that keep their operations alive.
Read More(ANALYSIS) Several years ago, Canada began a program called Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID). It’s a government initiative that’s beginning to reshape how Canadians are facing end-of-life situations.
Read MoreFood pantries often include a mobile component that delivers food to those in the community who can’t reach them. With the increased price of fuel, MinistryWatch reached out to Christian food pantry ministries to see how rising costs are affecting them.
Read More(ANALYSIS) A couple of months ago, I wrote a post about folks who report that they attend religious services multiple times a week. They make up about 6-8% of the country, and they are a qualitatively different group than people who report attending weekly. They have much higher levels of religious importance and prayer frequency. In other words, they’re super religious.
Read MoreIt’s hard to discuss a war in the Middle East without mentioning religion, especially when the main players are Israel, Iran and the United States. Apparently, the most important word in this drama is not “nuclear” or “oil” -- it’s “fundamentalism.”
Read More(ANALYSIS) There is a shift happening among young adults when it comes to church attendance, but it’s not Gen-Z men becoming more religious, as some suggest. Instead, young women are leaving the church in droves — bringing them on par with their male counterparts for the first time in American history.
Read MoreEaster Vigils brought a sharp rise in U.S. Catholic conversions, nearing pre-pandemic levels in some dioceses. Yet long-term trends remain troubling: Far more Catholics leave than join, Mass attendance has plunged and institutional markers are down. The church’s future hinges on why some parishes grow while many others continue to decline.
Read More(ESSAY) In the Bay Area, a backyard feast is held to celebrate the end of Passover. The main event of Mimouna is the homemade treats. White tablecloths are meticulously arranged with pink and green marzipan cookies representing spring, dried fruits and muffleta, a silken, thin crepe doused in honey and butter.
Read MoreIt was more than a house of worship. Iran’s residents came to the community center for affordable healthcare and to borrow books. It was the heartbeat of a neighborhood in the northwestern Iranian city of Zanjan — and now locals are mourning its loss. As the war rages on, they are looking to rebuild.
Read MoreRunning a youth camp in Texas has never been easy. And it’s getting harder, thanks in part to well-intended legislation passed in the wake of last year’s deadly floods. Measures meant to make camps safer may instead cause some to close permanently. The legislation comes as a result of last year’s flood at Camp Mystic that resulted in 27 deaths at the popular Christian camp.
Read More(ANALYSIS) The manosphere is a catchall term for websites, forums, blogs and influencers promoting hypermasculinity, from the belief that women and feminism are the cause of men’s problems to calls to legalize rape. Groups within it — including pickup artists, men’s rights groups and “involuntary celibate” or “incel” communities — portray themselves as victims of modernity.
Read MoreChristian musician Phillip Vaught is behind bars in Tennessee after being charged with sexual exploitation of a minor.
Read MoreEvan Lenow was unanimously confirmed as the new president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission at a special-called trustees meeting Monday.
Read More(ANALYSIS) This is why I love the Substack community — a couple of weeks ago, one of my subscribers (Ben Hein) asked me if I had any good data on Jehovah’s Witnesses. And you know what? I actually do.
Read More(ANALYSIS) In a world in which the Vatican has only soft power, the pope’s decrees carry only as much power as they are given. But however soft the pope’s power may be, that surreal Vatican visit to the Pentagon suggests that even the best-armed military in the world is afraid of it.
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