Christianity

Justin Bieber found more real estate on his body to add a new tat, and this one says a lot about where he is right now ... and where he plans on going. The Biebs really branched out this time, getting a laurel wreath across his collar bone. The 2…

Posted on January 30, 2020January 30, 20202 minute read Bethany Christian Services is making some major changes.  The world’s largest Christian adoption agency has posted a blog explaining that they will soon end international adoptions. As Christianity Today notes, Bethany assisted in 15,000 adoptions over the course of the last…

A Minnesota Catholic leader on Wednesday rejected remarks made by a priest who called Islam the "greatest threat in the world" to the United States and Christianity. The Fr. Nick VanDenBroeke, pastor of a church in the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, also urged parishioners to oppose Muslim immigration in a sermon…

President Donald Trump‘s spiritual adviser and personal pastor Paula White-Cain — whose approach to Christianity is controversial — went viral this week after a video circulated in which she called for “satanic pregnancies to miscarry” and inveighed against spells and witchcraft. “In the name of Jesus, we command all satanic pregnancies…

We already know that Charisma, the Christian magazine, regularly publishes faith-based nonsense. Like when they warned readers about a “demonic squid” or an apocalyptic asteroid. The fact that just about all (if not all) of their writers are supporters of D…

The Jewish settlement of Dolev with the Palestinian city of Ramallah is in the background, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, January 26, 2020. Reuters President Donald Trump is set to release his long-awaited Israeli-Palestinian peace plan.But there are still deep divides between the two sides, and many no longer see…

“Liberal-Academic-Methodist-Midwestern-Public School Proud-Steel Mill Salary Educated-Lesbian Mom-Tell Me Again About My Bubble.” This was my sign at the 2017 Women’s March in Chicago. I grew up Methodist in a southern Illinois steel mill town, the kind where my wife and I still don’t really feel comfortable holding hands. Nonetheless, I was amazed…

Queen of the damned — It's all about power: Who gets to have it, and how to wield it responsibly Jennifer Ouellette - Jan 27, 2020 6:35 pm UTC Kiernan Shipka stars in The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, back with another macabre season on Netflix.The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is back,…

Francis Chan has been a towering figure in evangelical Christianity for more than a decade now. I was a youth pastor in 2008, just a handful of years into vocational ministry, when I read his first book Crazy Love. This was my introduction to Chan and like so many, I…

Posted on January 23, 2020January 23, 20202 minute read As a pastor, author and activist, Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s legacy continues to loom large over modern Christianity. The Bonhoeffer Society has done its level best to preserve and study that legacy, and the group of scholars is still making new discoveries about…