Christianity

Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nationby Kristin Kobes Du MezLiveright Publishing Corporation, 386 pp., $28.95Unholy: Why White Evangelicals Worship at the Altar of Donald Trumpby Sarah PosnerRandom House, 368 pp., $28.00Donald Trump has never pretended to practice traditional Christian virtues. Yet in…

The online furniture seller Wayfair is not engaged in child sex trafficking. The high prices of some of its industrial-grade cabinets do not mean that they conceal children. And yet these absurd, evidence-free claims circulated so widely online that on Monday, Reuters published an extensive fact-check to disprove them, and…

Last Friday, the Turkish Council of State overturned the 1934 ruling that had allowed Hagia Sophia, Istanbul’s soaring cathedral-turned-mosque, to be converted into a museum. Minutes later, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan decreed that the Great Mosque of Ayasofya (its other name) will open for Muslim prayer in late July this…

Pop superstar Justin Bieber sent a message of thanks to Jesus Christ on Saturday for making him “loved, chosen, and forgiven” despite his years of indiscretions, and urged his millions of followers and fans to join him in embracing Christianity. Posting on Instagram to his 130 million followers, Bieber shared…

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Happy Canada Day to all my fellow Canadians! I hope and trust it will be a restful, celebratory kind of day. Today’s Kindle deals include a long list of solid works like Costi Hinn’s God, Greed, and the (Prosperity) Gospel as well as books by MacArthur, Stott, Zacharias, and others.…

The German mystic Meister Eckhart said that man knows so many things but does not know himself. “Go into your own ground” he said, “and learn to know yourself.” Brian Harper, a journalist and author who writes from a Christian perspective, would agree. In his book Less is More, he…

‘Christianity’ is trending across the United States, but it’s not some great reawakening of the American faithful – it’s anxious church-goers who are nervous that their religion will be next to suffer the wrath of cancel culture. The phrase shot to the top of the Twitter trending charts after a…

There has been a nationwide protest against gender-based violence in Nigeria. This protest has been used to raise awareness about rape, and to mobilize all sections of the society against sexual and gender-based abuses.Protests have been held at state capitals-in  Calabar, Ibadan, Jos, and Umuahia. While these demonstrations have overwhelmingly…

The Nigerian Government has accused the United Kingdom All-Party Parliamentary Group on International Religious Freedom or Belief of drawing wrong conclusions in its latest report about the country.Garba Shehu, Senior Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, in a statement on Friday commended the group for some…