A Christian Chinese national who spent 10 months in a Xinjiang detention camp has arrived in the United States after months of behind-the-scenes lobbying by U.S. lawmakers, human rights activists and international lawyers....
Last year, Canadian lawmakers approved legislation that expanded the eligibility for euthanasia and assisted suicide to the mentally ill, and now policymakers, doctors, and others are debating what the law will mean for medical practice in the country....
Georgia legislators last week passed a ban on so-called free speech zones on public college campuses. Republican Gov. Brian Kemp is expected to sign the bill, which would take effect July 1. Despite the name, free speech zones have often been used to limit expression more than protect it....
A Christian campaign group is threatening to take legal action against the government if it goes ahead with a ban on so-called conversion therapy. Christian Concern said that the proposed ban raises "serious questions" about religious freedom, and risks infringing on individual freedoms and breaching the European Convention of Human Rights....
Jews have been part and parcel of the fabric of the Middle East and North Africa. Within the multireligious and multiethnic 19th-century Ottoman Empire, Jews made up more than 1% of the population....
Holy Week continues with events around the world memorializing the week leading up to Jesus of Nazareth’s crucifixion, death and resurrection. In the Philippines, after kicking off the week with Palm Sunday, the faithful continued with Holy Monday and Holy Tuesday....
More Black, Christian families have opted into homeschooling in the COVID era. Liuan Huska of Christianity Today writes that Black families have a history of homeschooling, going back to the 19th century. Black heritage has become an important addition to modern-day homeschooling....
Christians around the world are marking Holy Week, which began April 10 with Palm Sunday to commemorate Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem and which will culminate with the celebration of Easter next week....
Is the era of the “hypepriest” over? The ouster of pastor-turned-celebrity Carl Lentz of Hillsong NYC, the controversy and legal troubles swirling around Hillsong founder Brian Houston and a recent documentary series chronicling alleged abuse in the famously famous Hillsong Church...
As both a Hebrew Bible scholar and archaeologist, I enjoy engaging in conversations related to ancient Israel as seen in both the Hebrew Bible and the archaeological record. As I study ancient Israel and the Hebrew Bible, there are various contexts I try to keep in mind....
This Lenten season, when the First United Church of Oak Park, Illinois gathered for Sunday services, the music had all been composed by people of color. They had decided to give up whiteness for Lent....
In early 2004, the dam holding back the floodwaters of gay marriage in America was starting to crack. Same-sex marriage in Massachusetts was all but a reality. San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom’s decision to start issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples led other cities across the nation to do the same....
Lately I’ve been revisiting feminist discussions of the body, and thinking about the importance of the body for feminist politics in general. I was researching the religious origins of theatre for personal interest, and was surprised (although not completely shocked) to discover that theatre owes its origins to the Dionysian fertility cults....
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