This weekās Weekend Plug-in highlights Donald Trumpās remarks to the National Religious Broadcastersā convention in Nashville, Tenn. Plus, as always, catch up on all the best reads and top headlines in the world of faith.
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(OPINION) Modi and former President Donald Trump are hyper-nationalists and Islamophobes. Both push fear-driven campaigns based on historical grievances and aversion to foreign religions and ethnicities. A militant Hindu monk has been elected to lead Indiaās largest state, and he is rabidly anti-Muslim.
Read More(OPINION) As leaders in the Body of Christ, nothing is more important than your personal testimony ā your hard-earned reputation for soundness in life, faith, and practice. You are a representative of Jesus in a formal and public way, with believers looking to you for guidance and unbelievers looking at you, scrutinizing you for godliness.
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(OPINION) My dad, a minister of the gospel for 60 years, used to tell parishioners there was one thing they should never pray for: patience. āTribulation worketh patience,ā heād say, quoting St. Paulās letter to the Romans. āAnytime you ask the Lord for patience, you might as well be praying for trouble.ā
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(OPINION) The Jerusalem cross raised bed has four quadrants facing west, north, east and south ā each representing one of natureās four seasons (fall, winter, spring and summer) ā and one of the four Christian Gospels (Matthew, Mark, John and Luke/Acts). These will serve as a compass for a journey of inner transformation.
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This weekās Weekend Plug-in highlights five takeaways from the shooting at Joel Osteenās Lakewood Church. Plus, as always, catch up on all the best reads and top headlines in the world of faith.
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(OPINION) I appreciate every effort to make Jesus known to a world that does know who He really is, especially to a world that has false perceptions about Him. I appreciate those who are willing to think outside the box and find unconventional ways to get people interested in hearing about the Savior. And I appreciate Christians who are willing to invest large amounts of money to reach massive secular audiences. But I donāt appreciate efforts that, in the end, might do more harm than good.
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(OPINION) Few issues in religion have been as remarked upon and puzzled over lately as the rapid rise of ānones,ā those who claim no religious affiliation. Iāve written about this before, I realize, but itās a news story that just keeps developing.
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Ahead of the Super Bowl, this weekās Weekend Plug-in highlights the rise of sports betting and people of faithās stance on it. Plus, as always, catch up on all the best reads and top headlines in the world of faith.
Read MoreIt was a New York Times headline that created tremors online: āAs Kids, They Thought They Were Trans. They No Longer Do.ā But hereās the question that was at the heart of this weekās āCrossroadsā podcast: Why was this Pamela Paul essay in the opinion section, as opposed to being a hard-news report out front?
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(OPINION) Godās pruning is more painful than pleasant, but it is an act of love, making us less for the moment ā sometimes quite radically less ā in order to make more of us in the future.
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As GetReligion.org disbands, something like this website has never been more needed. Will anyone again provide informed running assessments of this complex and emotion-laden journalistic beat?
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(OPINION) Love sure didnāt save the ā60s, but wouldnāt it be nice to imagine love might save us now? Yeah, I know itās too much to ask. Humans by and large arenāt geared that way. But an old man can dream just as easily as a 9-year-old can. I think sometimes that part of what keeps love from winning on this troubled planet is that most of us donāt even understand what true love looks like.
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This weekās Weekend Plug-in opens with the top headlines from the International Religious Freedom Summit. Plus, as always, catch up on all the best reads and big news in the world of faith.
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(OPINION) Evangelicalism may be confusing in terms of organizations and fiefdoms, but since World War II it has developed into the largest and most dynamic force in American religion, striding into the hole in the public square created by the decline of the old mainline. Also, evangelicalism has been the most disruptive, and certainly one of the evident, influences within the Republican Party.
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(OPINION) I finally got the coronavirus. But thanks to the luck of not getting it in 2020, say, and thanks to the hard work of public health officials, and thanks to vaccines and antivirals, I knew I wasnāt likely to end up on a ventilator or in a coffin, even though Iām an at-risk patient.
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This weekās Weekend Plug-in features a retrospective from columnist Bobby Ross Jr. on his 25 years on the Godbeat. Plus, a major new study on ānonesā ā and, as always, all the best reads and top headlines in the world of faith.
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(OPINION) It seems to me that the pro-life movement has lost its way. Sure, there are outward signs of success. Roe v. Wade was overturned. Roe was a bad decision, and overturning it was a good thing. But ā as I have written elsewhere ā we are now discovering that how one wins is as important as what one wins.
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(OPINION) With its digital homage to the late Paul Harvey's āSo God Made a Farmerā soliloquy, the āGod Made Trumpā video drew roars of support at key Iowa rallies for Donald Trump. āAnd on June 14, 1946, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, āI need a caretaker,ā so God gave us Trump,ā said the majestic voice.
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(OPINION) When it comes to the term āevangelical,ā it is not so much that it is a potentially ambiguous term (like āChristianā) as it is a misleading term ā a term that has become cultural and political more than spiritual.
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