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LDS Church puts strict bans on transgender participation. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, known as the Mormon church, has taken one of the harshest formal positions against transgender identity of any faith group in America. Last month, LDS leaders rolled out new policies that bar…. News Mark Wingfield.
Xenoamora over xenophobia. As the 2024 election season winds its painfully polarized way to another American election day, among the most volatile issues in the fractious orbit of political conversation are border security and immigration. As a public policy question, immigration is complex…. Opinion Chuck Poole.
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Matthew Taylor’s timely and disturbing new book, The Violent Take It by Force: The Christian Movement That Is Threatening Our Democracy, explores the politicization of America’s independent charismatics and neo-Pentecostals and the resulting “charismaticization of right-wing politics.”. Taylor bids farewell to….
For some time now, Christianity has been on the decline. According to a September 2022 Pew study, people identifying as Christian have decreased from 90% of the U.S. population in 1972 to 64% in 2020. But it’s not just researchers who are talking about this.
Increases in attendance, giving and participation, and a decline in internal squabbling, may signal America’s churches are emerging from the dark days of the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath, new research shows.
Mark Robinson’s porn site scandal complicates his ‘pro-family’ campaign. Conservative Christian activists have embraced Mark Robinson, the controversial North Carolina lieutenant governor. The Family Research Council has praised Robinson as “a man revered by parents everywhere.”.
Last month, Baptist leaders from dozens of nations gathered in Birmingham, Ala., for the first in-person meeting of the Baptist World Alliance since the COVID-19 pandemic started. South African anti-apartheid activist and theologian Allan Boesak spoke multiple times about racial justice, political challenges and Christian witness.
Politics, faith and mission: A conversation with Colin Allred. Congressman Colin Allred is, as he notes in our interview, a fourth-generation Texan who played football at Baylor University and then in the NFL for five years before an injury ended his professional career and sent him in the direction of law school.