Tennessee lawmakers introduced a bill that would allow the father of an unborn child to file a petition barring a woman from aborting their child.

Covid-19 has upended churchgoing in the US. Like so much else with the pandemic, the impacts are not felt equally.

'There are ongoing processes and internal interagency processes,' press secretary Jen Psaki said.

....“I know of pastors who are quitting just over the stress of this issue and what it’s causing in their churches, and I know churches splitting over whether you should wear a mask or not...COVID has impacted every pastor to some degree. Usually it has brought more challenges and more difficulty.”

....So rather than running away from the church in these confusing and chaotic times, people should be running to the church. There are at least five ways the church can make you wiser in an age of foolishness.

His ministry, preparing to downsize in the wake of a new investigation, expresses regret for “misplaced trust” in a leader who used his esteem to conceal his sexual misconduct.

...In December, Pope Francis joined forces with the Rothschilds to “reform capitalism.”

Donald Trump claimed that the election was “rigged” against him.  The media consistently reported that this contention was “unsupported,” or even a “lie.”  But now, in the afterglow of Biden’s victory, the left is congratulating itself on how it did, in fact, manipulate the election. 

San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone has denounced the “colossal overstep of governmental authority” evidenced by California’s bans on religious worship.

In the latest example of corporate complicity through silence, the Walt Disney Co. has refused to comment on a recent report that China is overseeing the systematic rape of ethnic minority women in the western Xinjiang region.

The Supreme Court is sending a message to states that want to continue to carry out the death penalty: Inmates must be allowed to have a spiritual adviser by their side as they are executed.

Some feminists are now facing the fact that Planned Parenthood, once a staunch champion for women’s rights, is currently one of the largest providers of transgender treatments in the United States, having become a leader in an industry that supports the elimination of the legal recognition of two sexes in favor of gender identity.

...Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa made the stunning admission during a two-hour-plus video conference call on Wednesday with state Democratic leaders, in which she blamed former president Trump for the Cuomo administration’s evasiveness.

Legislators with at least 19 states have introduced bills this year that would restrict student athletes to competing in sports based on their biological sex and not their gender identity.

As a post-Trump conservative coalition struggles to define itself, social and religious conservatives should seize the opportunity to step up and play a leading role, making support for families a central tenet of the American right.

...Common reasons given by #Exvangelicals for leaving their church include Biblical literalism, matters of social justice, and anti-LGBTQ stances.

....The state of Victoria in Australia, however, just passed a bill that will considerably intensify the conflict between religious freedom, individual choice, and identity politics. And it might well become a model for laws elsewhere in the democratic world.   

The Fourth Amendment right against warrantless searches of a person’s home is a pillar of Americans’ constitutional liberties. Before a police officer or any other government official can enter your home, they must show a judge that they have probable cause that they will discover specific evidence of a crime.

The late influential Christian apologist Ravi Zacharias engaged in “sexting, unwanted touching, spiritual abuse, and rape” during his life, the board of his organization admitted Thursday in announcing the results of a months-long independent investigation.

The prospect that China’s Christian community might reach a staggering 300 million people by 2030 has unnerved communist leaders who fear “they'll have to share power”...

...Through extensive interviews and access to documents, Ball lays out in earnest the game plan with absolutely no awareness that this nonadmission of wrongdoing is actually an admission that bolsters what the President has been saying all along...

The pandemic accelerated the push for remote options but also left students longing for in-person community.

...All of the churches noted in these categories have either closed or announced their intentions to close. Thankfully, some of them generously gave their sites to healthier churches. We hope to follow their adoption progress closely. 

Last week, Snopes — a fact-checking website that was used by Facebook for several years to combat what the platform dubbed misinformation — published an article describing creationism as “a conspiracy theory.”

The province of British Columbia has announced that they are extending their pandemic restrictions “indefinitely,” with all churches prohibited from gathering for services under threats of crushing fines and jail time.

Everyone knows about the Jewish-Muslim tussle over claims to rule Jerusalem, but there's another, less public, battle over the authority over the holy edifices in the city.

....Sometimes it can be helpful to delineate some of the unhelpful or sinful motivations that can sabotage a ministry.  It is not possible to avoid every negative motive all the time, but we must beware lest any of these start to fester within and then characterise our ministry.