Should Christians be opposed to vaccination?
“The blood of Jesus is my vaccine”, read one protestor’s sign during the recent Sydney anti-lockdown demonstration. It’s such a pious statement, but it’s a misguided one too, propagating a position …
Month: July 2021
‘I knew absolutely nothing about my own religion. Everything I knew was basically hearsay’
Mya Jo is entering her senior year of high school in the fall. There aren’t any religion courses on her roster for this school year, but that hasn’t stopped the …
The Fastest-Growing Group of American Evangelicals
In 2007, when Obe and Jacqueline Arellano were in their mid-20s, they moved from the suburbs of Chicago to Aurora, Illinois, with the dream of starting a church. They chose …
Beware the Anti-Anti-Racist Evangelical Complex
Since publication of their new book addressing a Christian view on reparations for descendants of formerly enslaved Americans, Gregory Thompson and Duke Kwon have been met with harsh criticism by the …
Virtual Exhibit Highlights Tenacity of Armenian Christian Faith
Less than a month after two missiles significantly damaged the Ghazanchetsots Cathedral in the Armenian town of Shusha last October, Hovik Hovsepyan and Mariam Sargsyan stood at the cathedral’s altar …
Why some younger evangelicals are leaving the faith
The extent to which the number of white evangelicals have declined in the United States has been laid bare in a new report by the Public Religion Research Institute’s 2020 Census on …
Inscription from time of biblical judges unearthed in Israel
A five-letter inscription dated around 3,100 years ago with the name of a biblical judge was unearthed in the excavations at Khirbat er-Ra‘i, in the Southern district of Israel, the …
Christ Almighty! 10 Incredible Statues of Jesus Around the World
And these statues shall reign forever and ever. The little-known town of Encantado, in southern Brazil, has grabbed international headlines with the news that it’s constructing a gigantic Jesus statue even bigger …
Religious stereotypes are harmful
Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or …
White evangelicals in numerical, political decline
PRRI’s new survey of American religious identification offers the surprising finding that white mainline Protestants now outnumber white evangelicals. To wit: From a low of 12.8% of the U.S. adult population in …