For This Christian, Christmas Services This Year Left a Taste of Bitterness
As a Singaporean who has lived overseas for the past decade, coming home for Christmas is always a special time. I love seeing friends and family, bas...
Church for ‘Nones’: Meet the Anti-dogma Spiritual Collectives Emerging Across the US
Editor's Note: This article first appeared in Religion News Service on December 20, 2023.
ATLANTA (RNS) — Twenty minutes outside downtown Atlan...
Creative Ways of Following Jesus As We Race Into 2024 – a NEW YEAR of Accelerating Change
Here’s your invitation to join others who are creating innovative ways to be a difference and make a difference in the turbulent 2024 and beyond that ...
Development Without Displacement
One of the most substantial things we do in Philly is turn abandoned houses into homes for families who need one. This year, we celebrated 25 years o...
The Real Meaning of Christmas — God Entered the Crap
God is with us in the struggle to survive, amid the throes of poverty, in the fight for freedom, in a world full of violence.
Blessed Are the Peacemakers
Bio: Carolyn S. Byars, MDiv, is a graduate of Howard University School of Divinity. She is the author of “Is American Christianity Antichrist?” and es...
Ditching the Myth: God’s Ancient Covenant, English Settlers, and the Ongoing Saga of Misapplied Promises in America
In late 2022, I came across a survey from the Public Religion Research Institute that has lingered in my thoughts ever since. The findings revealed th...
Challenging War Profiteering with Jesus’ Prophetic Alternative
When Hamas militants massacred 1200 people inside Israel and carried 240 hostages into Gaza on October 7, they succeeded in provoking the State of Isr...
Do you know the real St. Nick?
The original “Old St. Nick” who inspired the tradition of Santa Claus... was a bishop of Myra in fourth-century Turkey (Christians around the world re...
Praised by Faint Damnation
Praised by Faint Damnation
Why American Evangelical Responses to October 7 are Dangerous
Bruce N. Fisk
In the aftermath of October 7, many American...