Are we treating work too much like religion? This is the question Kathryn Post of Religion News Service asks after noticing some disturbingly familiar trends in the workplace. Megachurch-like events put WeWork’s charismatic CEO in …
Michelle Boorstein of The Washington Post writes that members of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) were expected to vote on issues related to recent sex-abuse scandals at their annual gathering. More opinionated Baptists feared that …
Jim “Soni” Sonefeld, the drummer and songwriter from the 90s-alt rock band Hootie & the Blowfish, is sharing the story of the band and his journey to finding God in a memoir titled Swimming with …
The Google computer engineer who claimed he was blowing the whistle on chatbot sentience is saying that that his belief in the bot’s existence as a sentient being with a soul is predicated in part …
The Southern Baptist Convention’s Pastor’s Conference had what Religion News Service described as a “hotly contested” election for the conference’s presidency on June 13. Notably, Voddie Baucham Jr., a well-known preacher who was backed by …
Tom Meyer, who is called “The Bible Memory Man” for memorizing 20 books of the Bible, is now volunteering at Kentucky’s Creation Museum. He has worked as a professor at California’s Shasta Bible College of …
Recent scandals throughout the United States show that pastoral misconduct has become far too common. However, Bob Smietana of Religion News Service writes that often, the reaction to that abuse is nearly as bad. The …
{I had to add a brief snippet to this essay as I sorted out the title for it. One thing I did NOT want was for this to be another article written about these sleazy …
Saying that persecuted people have to go into hiding “underground” is a common idiom. But in the case of at least one ancient archeological site, the saying may have been literal for ancient Christians. Matiate, …
In an interview on Apple Music, rapper and singer M.I.A. (Mathangi “Maya” Arulpragasam) recently recounted her journey of embracing Christianity after she had a vision of Jesus Christ. M.I.A. — who at one time said …