🌎 5 faith-facts about VP Harris, a Black Baptist with a Hindu family

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July 23, 2024

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IN THE NEWS

Inside Ziklag, the secret organization of wealthy Christians trying to sway the election and change the country

A network of ultrawealthy Christian donors is spending nearly $12 million to mobilize Republican-leaning voters and purge more than a million people from the rolls in key swing states, aiming to tilt the 2024 election in favor of former....

Trump sends support to First Baptist Dallas community after devastating church fire

Pastor Robert Jeffress of First Dallas shared that former President Donald Trump sent him a note offering his support after the sanctuary of First Baptist Dallas erupted in flames last week.

5 faith-facts about VP Kamala Harris, a Black Baptist with a Hindu family

Few presidential candidates have had as much exposure to the world’s religions as Kamala Harris, America’s 59-year-old vice president who just became the front-running Democratic presidential candidate, following President Joe Biden’s....

‘A bolt out of the blue’: 5 Christian leaders react to Biden dropping out of presidential race

President Joe Biden announced Sunday that he would not seek reelection just weeks ahead of the Democratic National Convention. He became the first president to make such a decision while in office since Lyndon Baines Johnson in 1968.

As a scholar, he's charted the decline in religion. Now the church he pastors has closed its doors

They gathered one last time on Sunday — the handful of mostly elderly members of First Baptist Church in Mt. Vernon, Illinois. The members, joined by well-wishers, said the Lord's Prayer, recited the Apostle's Creed and heard a biblical passage....

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FROM FAITH ON VIEW

Dorothy Sanders Wells: A New Era for Mississippi’s Episcopal Church

The Episcopal Church has made history by ordaining Dorothy Sanders Wells as the 11th Bishop of Mississippi. This milestone marks the first time an African American woman has held this position in the state’s history. The ordination....

7 Thoughts from an Evangelical Democrat on Biden Dropping Out

Biden has dropped out of the presidential election contest and endorsed Vice President Harris. If Speaker Johnson’s previous statements are to be believed, the GOP will likely challenge this move in court. So, the drama of the 2024....

The Individualistic Community of Evangelicalism

I was raised in the Baptist Church and spent almost 50 years in that world. I still teach at an evangelical university and consider myself an evangelical. Evangelicalism is in my blood. Over the last few years, though, I have begun to realize how infested evangelicalism is with radical individualism.

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COMMENTARY

A guide to the coming attacks on Kamala Harris

On Sunday at 1:46 PM Eastern Time, President Joe Biden announced he would end his campaign for reelection. Seconds later, the attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris began....

The Trump campaign’s worst nightmare

The GOP played its hand in Milwaukee. The entire Republican National Convention was designed to attack Joe Biden. The GOP has chosen its vice-presidential candidate. But with Biden out of the race, the Democratic Party now has the....

How 5 different faith groups are using music to connect with young people

Faith groups are in flux around the world, according to research published by Pew Research Center in 2022. The Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures project found that religion is generally growing in the Eastern Hemisphere, including in....

Why we always need more books on every subject

If you read a lot of books, you may become bored or fatigued to discover yet another book on a particular subject. I get it. But the average person doesn’t read as much as you do, nor do they have much knowledge of publishing trends....

The power of teaching truth

Growing up, I swallowed the school stories hook, line, and sinker. Thanksgiving was supposedly a lovely feast where Pilgrims and Native Americans held hands and sang “Kumbaya” over a table full of turkey. Christopher Columbus?

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The lead guitarist of Skillet recently introduced a new member to their family.

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(Any)body work: behind the scenes at London’s first all-female garage

At the end of a quiet, leafy lane in Finchley, north London, is a hive of activity. It’s the middle of the working day at Spanners With Manners, which as it sign proudly declares is London’s first all-female garage. The smells of coffee, rubber and oil....

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