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Why Christianity Quit Growing in Korea

During an interview for CNN’s The Axe Files With David Axelrod, Democratic senator and presidential candidate Cory Booker argued that gun reform needed to be taken more seriously because the usual Republican reaction of offering nothing more than thoughts and…

Just days after the Texas Attorney General’s office told officials at the San Jacinto County Courthouse that they didn’t need to take down their giant Christian crosses in the windows — no matter what the Freedom From Religion Foundation said — the people ins…

Image copyrightGetty Images A row in the US state of Maryland over the location of a 40ft-high cross will be resolved by the country's top court, and has sparked a vigorous debate about religious icons in public life. You may not have heard much about the t…

On a previous post discussing why the late progressive Evangelical writer Rachel Held Evans inspired such intense devotion, a reader — a Christian academic who has studied her for years — wrote: There is the power of knowing, in your bones, that you have bee…

Polyamory-supporting, self-described “queer” pastor Brandan Robertson YouTube) Here’s some sexy ecumenism for you: Great to welcome my friend Brandan Robertson @BrandanJR evangelical pastor, theologian and leader in welcoming LGBT people into churches. He’s…

Archaeologists in the U.K. have revealed new details of the earliest Christian royal burial ever found in Britain, which they compared to the famous King Tutankhamun's tomb. In 2003, road workers in the village of Prittlewell in southern England accidentally…

THE DAMASCUS ROAD, by Jay Parini. (Doubleday, $27.95.) Parini, a poet, novelist and biographer whose previous books include a historical account of Jesus, here uses fiction to imagine the life and times of St. Paul and explore the early spread of Christianity…

A tree grows in North Carolina, and it has been growing there for a long, looooooong time. According to a new study published today (May 9) in the journal Environmental Research Communications, scientists studying tree rings in North Carolina's Black River s…

According to a group of anti-gay (and pro-conversion therapy) bigots under the name Gone2Far, Mayor Pete Buttigieg represents the Gay Agenda’s “kill shot” against True Christianity™. Mayor Pete Buttigieg is publicly challenging the definition of what a Chris…