Source: Times of Israel This Wednesday Oct. 26, 2016 photo shows the moment workers remove the top marble layer of the tomb said to be of Jesus, in the Church of Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. A restoration team has peeled away a marble layer for the first time in centuries […]
Source: NPR By SYLVIA POGGIOLI One of the greatest rifts in Christianity — between Catholics and Lutherans — isn’t what it used to be. As a sign of those much improved […]
Source: Politico By BRANDON AMBROSINO Last weekend, as more than 9,000 alumni descended on Lynchburg, Virginia, for Liberty University’s homecoming weekend, much went as expected. The carnival atmosphere was pervasive—boosters […]
Source: RNS By Adelle M. Banks WASHINGTON (RNS) After quietly removing panes bearing the Confederate flag from its stained-glass windows, leaders of the Washington National Cathedral are now wondering what to do […]
Source: The Atlantic By EMMA GREEN LYNCHBURG, Va.—When Jerry Falwell founded Liberty University in 1971, he dreamed of transforming the United States. As he put it, “We’re turning out moral revolutionaries.” […]
Source: Wall Street Journal By IAN LOVETT Since becoming an evangelical Christian in college, Laura Robinson has also called herself a Republican. But after watching the video of GOP presidential […]
Source: BBC By Kait Bolongaro Business reporter Nestled high in France’s Chartreuse Mountains, the Grande Chartreuse monastery is home to a cloister of Catholic monks. Adherents of the Carthusian order […]
Source: Los Angeles Times By Mark Z. Barabak No religious group has been more reliably Republican than members of the Mormon faith, who routinely vote in landslide numbers for […]
Source: Herald News After nearly a decade of renovations, a popular pilgrimage site for Jews, Christians and Muslims alike has been reopened in the Holy Land. Located on Mount Nebo […]
Source: The New York Times By LAURIE GOODSTEIN When Jen Hatmaker speaks to stadiums full of Christian women, she regales them with stories about her five children and her garden […]
Source: The Guardian By Harriet Sherwood; Religion correspondent The Church of England is considering dropping its legal requirement to hold weekly Sunday services in churches with small and declining congregations. […]
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla; Associate Religion Editor When women of faith get together, powerful things can happen. This week, more than 700 Christian women clergy and lay leaders signed […]
Recent events have shown that not only Trump is a disgrace but so are Pat Robertson & Jerry Falwell Jr. Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer Earlier in this […]
Source: Associated Press By RACHEL ZOLL NEW YORK (AP) — Cracks have appeared in evangelical support for Donald Trump over the video of his sexually predatory comments about women. But […]
Source: The Guardian By Simon Jenkins As desanctified, secularised buildings owned by the community or local trusts, ailing churches may just survive. More Muslims go to mosques than Anglicans go to […]
Source: The Guardian The papal envoy to Syria has been named as one of a group of new cardinals announced on Sunday by Pope Francis, including 13 who are eligible […]
Source: Los Angeles Times BY Nigel Duara All that was left of the onetime bishop was an oily ankle monitor. What became of the ankle, and the rest of Lyle […]
In Forged, Ehrman reveals: The Apostle Peter was illiterate, and therefore could not have written two letters (1 & 2 Peter) credited to him in the Bible. Six of the […]
Source: Huffington Post By Celia Wexler Catholic feminist, journalist, former public interest lobbyist Writing a book is a bit like having a baby. It’s an enterprise that is best not done […]
Source: RNS By Kimberly Winston Kimberly Winston is a freelance religion reporter based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She covers atheism and freethought for RNS. RNS) The Internal Revenue Service has reclassified one of the most famous Christian organizations, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. At the request of the […]