Should Christians “follow the science”?
Ideally, faith and science should complement each other. Unfortunately, as the pandemic has played out over many months, they often have seemed to be at odds. “There’s been a very divisive …
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San Francisco’s first trans bishop is here to heal our spirit
Megan Rohrer once walked away from the church community they now lead. Years before being installed as a bishop in the 3.3 million-member Evangelical Lutheran Church in September, Rohrer had …
Study: Religion soothed US evangelicals at start of COVID. Politics put them at risk.
Religion provided great comfort to evangelical Christians in the US in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. But according to a study in the Journal for the Scientific Study of …
Evangelicals’ Hesitancy Wanes: Nearly 60 Percent Have Been Vaccinated, New Poll Shows
Nearly 60 percent of white evangelicals say they have been vaccinated against COVID-19, according to a new survey that indicates support for the vaccine is increasing among a once-hesitant demographic. …
I was an evangelical and an anti-vaxxer. Here’s what changed
As hospitals again fill up with COVID-19 cases, the vaccinated are getting angrier at the unvaccinated. I get the anger. I also get what it feels like to be on …
Scottish churches no longer have to limit attendance
Churches in Scotland have been able to hold worship services with unlimited numbers of people for a week now. For the first time since March 2020, they are no longer required by law to observe physical …
Around 300 pastors have died due to coronavirus in the state of Mexico alone
The government’s Religious Affairs Unit of the state of Mexico has reported that 270 evangelical pastors have died due to coronavirus in that region of the country alone. The figure represents 8.4% of …
Right-wing pastor gets Covid after saying vaccines were part of ‘mass death campaign’
A right-wing Florida pastor was hospitalized with Covid-19, weeks after saying vaccination efforts were part of a “mass death campaign.” The pastor, Rick Wiles, wrote Tuesday on TruNews.com, where he propagates …
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Churches in Ireland are celebrating the ability to gather again, after new Covid-19 rules allowed religious groups to bring together up to 50 people. The updated measures announced by the …
Indian Christians Unite to Pray as Virus Overwhelms Crematoriums
With life-saving oxygen in short supply, families are left on their own to ferry people sick with COVID-19 from hospital to hospital in search of treatment as India is engulfed …