THE INTERVIEW: AUTHOR KATE BOWLER ON HOW EVANGELICAL WOMEN CARVED OUT A NICHE IN CELEBRITY CULTURE
YONAT SHIMRON, of Religion News Service, speaks with author and historian Kate Bowler about her new book, ‘The Preacher’s Wife’…
ESSAY: HOW WE CAN USE THE CURRENT CRISIS IN POLITICS AND CHRISTIANITY TO RECLAIM JESUS
In an excerpt from his latest book – ‘Christ in Crisis: Why We Need to Reclaim Jesus’, Sojourners’ founder Rev JIM WALLIS argues that the current crisis in the US represents an opportunity to reconnect to “the person and teachings of Jesus”…
ESSAY: WHO’S AN EVANGELICAL AND WHO GETS TO DECIDE?
US author THOMAS S KIDD, in an article first published on Religion News Service, looks at what defines an evangelical…
ESSAY: WHAT NETFLIX GOT WRONG – THE FELLOWSHIP’S MISSION IS LOVE, NOT POWER
In an article via Religion News Service, A LARRY ROSS, founder of A Larry Ross Communications and a volunteer with the international network of Fellowship friends, says the Netflix series ‘The Family’ fails to capture the spirit of love at the heart of the organisation known as the Fellowship…
ESSAY: WHAT IT MEANS TO ‘GET’ RELIGION IN 2020
US Catholic commentator CHARLES C CAMOSY, in an article first published on Religion News Service, looks, writing for the US context, at the implications when those who control the public discourse fail to understand the importance of religious beliefs…
Explainer – Trump and the politics of the Messiah
RNS Does President Trump have a Messiah complex? No, according to some of his most loyal evangelical Christian supporters – but one could see how he might get the idea that he is here to save the world. President Trump speaks with reporters before departing on Marine One on the South Lawn of the White […]
SIGHT-SEEING: WHY I MADE THE “BIBLE BELT” MY MISSION FIELD
In an article first published on Religion News Service, US pastor DEAN INSERRA – in an adapted excerpt from his book The Unsaved Christian: Reaching Cultural Christianity with the Gospel – explains why he felt called to minister in the US “Bible Belt”…
ESSAY: MAKING OURSELVES A ‘PONTIFEX’ IN THE MODE OF POPE FRANCIS
US Protestant pastor BOB ROBERTS, Jr, founder of Glocal.net – an organisation that promotes connections with leaders from different religious backgrounds, applauds Pope Francis for his efforts to reach out of the “other”…
George Washington’s faith under scrutiny after sale of “God letter”
RNS The sale of a 230-year-old letter in which America’s first president speaks of “Providence” guiding the fledgling republic’s affairs has rekindled interest in how George Washington saw religion, a subject long debated among scholars, supporters and sceptics. The letter, which came on the market Monday, was sold at the asking price of $US140,000 to […]
ESSAY: ARE US CHURCHES WILLING TO LOVE THEIR YOUNG PEOPLE MORE THAN THEIR POLITICS?
In an article first published by Religion News Service, SCOTT MCCONNELL, executive director of US firm LifeWay Research, looks at the findings of a new survey showing an increasing number of young people citing politics as the reason they left the church…