Christianity

Last month, the Chief Counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice tweeted gleefully that the Supreme Court had rejected a lawsuit to have In God We Trust removed from our national currency. Readers of a piece that appeared in the Washington Post only a…

Last month, the Chief Counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) tweeted a celebratory tweet, saying that the Supreme Court had rejected a lawsuit to have In God We Trust removed from our national currency. Readers of a piece that appeared in …

WASHINGTON (AP) Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg (BOO-tuh-juhj) says Republicans will face a reckoning over a policy agenda he says is out of sync with Christian values. Speaking on MSNBCs Morning Joe Thursday, Buttigieg kicked off a day of t…

This story appears in the Sept. 9, 2019, issue of Sports Illustrated. For more great storytelling and in-depth analysis, subscribe to the magazineand get up to 94% off the cover price. Click here for more. On a hot, muggy day in August 2012, as Clemson footb…

Do you know what happened in Lyon in AD 177? Or in Milan in 1300? Or in Baroda in 1825? You probably dont, but you shouldnt worry: few do. Whatever happened, it was, by ordinary standards, something quite humble. In Dominion, Tom Holland explores such happeni…

Anne Lamott once put it perfectly when she wrote, "You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do." When it comes to Christianity, some practitioners believe that the words of Jesus Chri…

THE UNGRATEFUL REFUGEEWhat Immigrants Never Tell YouBy Dina Nayeri Dina Nayeri was not yet 6 years old in 1985 when she visited her eccentric maternal grandmother, Maman Moti, in London. Nayeris parents were both medical professionals in the city of Isfahan …

Esther Yuen has friends who are angry they once took so seriously American author Joshua Harris’s celebrated advice to avoid kissing your partner until marriage. One of them blames Harris’s “purity culture” for his singleness. Harris’s book, I Kissed Dating …

Augustine's ConfessionsIn Our Time Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss St Augustine of Hippo's account of his conversion to Christianity and his life up to that point. Written c397AD, it has many elements of autobiography with his scrutiny of his earlier life, h…

Vice President Mike Pence suggested on Wednesday that President Barack Obama is to blame for removing Bibles and other religious symbols from Veterans Affairs hospitals. While speaking to the American Legion National Convention, Pence vowed to “make room for…