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It may be the start of a new year, but many of the same issues and concerns will dominate the news cycle in 2025. Religion Unplugged recently highlighted our most popular stories of 2024 and the stories several religion journalists felt were their best of last year. With 2024 close to being in the […]
(OPINION) Dickensian is an overused expression, but it’s as close as I can come to describing the Lexington, Kentucky, hospital’s emergency room. Individual cubicles for the emergency cases had long since filled up. A maze of hallways were lined with gurneys pressed against the walls end to end. I don’t know how many gurneys there […]
Tension with the SBC Though he identified himself as a Southern Baptist, Carter repeatedly distanced himself from the Southern Baptist Convention in later years — particularly in 2000 when he mailed a letter to 75,000 Baptists nationwide expressing opposition to the revised Baptist Faith and Message doctrinal statement. “I have seen an increasing inclination on […]
Movie star Denzel Washington has taken on a new role — last week he received his minister’s license at a church service in New York City. The actor, most recently known for his part in “Gladiator II,” was also baptized, according to a livestream video of the event. “If [God] can do this for me, […]
Grimes has found God. Sort of. In a post on Twitter / X, the noted vaping enthusiast who wrote an entire album based in polytheism said that “connecting” with the elements of Christianity that center on the self as being of heavenliness or hellishness is “the only way I can quit vaping.” Grimes reposted a message […]
(ANALYSIS) On Dec. 31, while many people are preparing for their New Years Eve parties, some Roman Catholic Christians will also mark the feast day for St. Silvester. Little is known for certain about Silvester’s life, but he lived during a transformational period in the history of Christianity. From 314-335 C.E., Silvester was the bishop […]
The editorial copy detailing the results has always included shots of strong commentary. I say that, based on my experiences writing newspaper columns about RNA polls since the early 1980s. The poll materials — rather than the old-school focus on specific news events — has increasingly included editorial descriptions of subjects or trends from the […]
That means it’s now possible to do a top ten list where many films within the faith-based space are genuinely worthy of viewing. Of course, it’s not all good. Hollywood still has trouble understanding faith. And the faith film industry, while they’ve gotten a lot better, still has a long way to go. While […]
(ANALYSIS) President Donald Trump is returning to the White House, convinced — after a close encounter with an assassin’s bullet — that he had God on his side in the election. While opinions differed on that theological question, Trump clearly drew strong support from voters that frequented pews. In Washington Post exit polls, he received […]
Pope Francis has visited one of the largest prisons in Italy, opening a special “holy door” for the Catholic church’s 2025 jubilee, in what the Vatican described as a “historic move” as it is the first time a sacred portal has been opened at a jail. Speaking to hundreds of inmates on Thursday at the […]