12+ hour, 28+ min ago  (321+ words) Mark Tooley became president of the Institute on Religion and Democracy (IRD) in 2009. He joined IRD in 1994 to found its United Methodist committee (UMAction). He is also editor of IRD's foreign policy and national security journal, Providence. Prior to joining…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago  (294+ words) Mark Tooley became president of the Institute on Religion and Democracy (IRD) in 2009. He joined IRD in 1994 to found its United Methodist committee (UMAction). He is also editor of IRD's foreign policy and national security journal, Providence. Prior to joining…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago  (470+ words) This past Good Friday I reprised my recurring role as Roman Governor of Judea Pontius Pilate for my Anglican parish's somber Holy Week program, The Way of the Cross. Designed for children to engage with the events of Jesus' last…...

6+ day, 12+ hour ago  (140+ words) Fear of death is universal, but not something that comports well with the secularized societies of the West. This fear and the hope that Christians have in Christ was discussed by Clarke Scheibe, director the Canadian branch of the L'Abri…...

1+ week, 12+ hour ago  (513+ words) Flannery O'Connor's mother, Regina, once expressed to her that it would be nice if the Southern Gothic author could write more pleasant stories that people might want to read. I jokingly shared that anecdote with my mother last week when…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (150+ words) Antisemitism among young Christian men is becoming a real problem. Why? Jews are only two percent of the U. S. population and a much smaller percentage of the world population. But antisemitism is an enduring ideology that appeals to conspiracy, fear, resentment,…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (237+ words) Last week an Alabama judge denied the Alabama-West Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church's (UMC) claim to own Harvest Church, a Dothan megachurch that broke away from the denomination (read coverage from AL. com here). The case is among…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (263+ words) These concerns are valid but miss the larger picture. Governments should not criminally punish any kind of speech, whether Christian, anarchist, Marxist, Muslim, nudist, or Buddhist. The Finnish court ruling should be denounced not just as an attack on traditional…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (444+ words) Get in, loser: we're going to a Twitter fight. Boller routinely presents herself as a model representative of Catholicism. It's hard to think of anything less Catholic than to brazenly ignore the public correction of one of the most well-known…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (389+ words) You may as well expect a child to grow without food as a soul without private prayer." -John Wesley John Wesley believed in the power of prayer. He experienced it. And he encouraged faithful Christians to pray together in worship…...