Christianity

It’s become a common refrain that what modern evangelicals do is not true to the spirit of Christianity, that it’s somehow a betrayal of Jesus’s message. Here’s a fine example of that kind of apologetics. We need to be really clear on something, because ther…

Kanye Wests latest album Jesus Is King lives up to the name in lyrical content, and is so full of Biblical references that it caused a spike in people searching for answers about Christianity. According to Faithwire, Jesus and What do Christians believe? saw…

— Morgan Marietta, University of Massachusetts Lowell A movement for religious rights is transforming the place of religion in American public life. From the 1960s until very recently, liberals successfully argued at the Supreme Court that the tyranny of t…

While it may seem counterintuitive, there probably isn’t a film genre (excluding movies produced by Kirk Cameron, anyway) that more consistently or explicitly references Christian ideas and iconography than the horror genre. Between The Exorcist, The Conjuri…

Everyone has an opinion on Kanye West. This is a man who has become as well known for his inflated ego as his songs. His music, which fellow rap artists have hailed as genius, has often veered away from gangster posturing in favour of more thoughtful observat…

The saga of Kanye West’s cannonball into Christianity continues apace following the release of Jesus Is King. Now he’s made an appearance on James Corden’s “Carpool Karaoke” which, in this case, takes place on an airplane. This results in the usual hijinks Co…

The Christian Post is currently publishing pieces about people who walked away from Christianity (much to the disappointment of the site’s own commenters). They just published an interview with Ryan Bell, the former pastor of a Seventh-day Adventist church …

This is a guest post by Andrew Seidel. He is an attorney for the Freedom From Religion Foundation and the author of The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism is Un-American. … In the New York Times op-ed pages, Nicholas Kristof argued that Jesus Christs …

Its no wonder that West has taken to the Christianity and its Bible these daysits the perfect intellectual ecosystem for someone who cherrypicks his points and insists that some things are to be taken literally while others are obviously poetry. When he menti…

After weeks of false release dates, teased snippets and ridiculous sound bites, Kanye West finally delivered his curiously-anticipated not-exactly-gospel album, Jesus Is King. The album notably comes on the heels of Kanyes much-hyped Sunday Service shows: a s…