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Like a Rock Star, Pope Francis Calls For “Disorder” In Rio
The Pope keeps shaking things up in Rio. From the moment he arrived on his visit to Brazil, the Pontiff has been traveling with the car windows down to be closer to the people. Then he shed his...
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Rick Warren Preaches First Sermon Since His Son’s Suicide
Rick Warren has preached thousands upon thousands of sermons, but this message was different. The last time he had stood the pulpit at his Saddleback Church in southern California was on Easter,...
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Pope Francis Says He Does Not Judge Gay Priests
Today the Pope stated that he does not judge gays—a statement that will send shockwaves through the church. His comments were short, subtle, but unmistakably direct. “If they accept the Lord and have...
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Gays Abroad Have Most to Gain from Pope Francis’ Latest Comments
The Pope did not change any official Catholic position when he stated on Monday that gays should not be marginalized or judged. But the effects of his words could be transformational in parts of the...
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Meet the Woman Who Will Lead Evangelical Lutherans: “Religious but not...
Change has come to one of America’s largest Christian denominations. Last week the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America elected its first female presiding bishop, the church’s top office. Bishop...
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Pope Calls a Rape Victim to Comfort Her
Alejandra Pereyra got a call she never expected while she was knitting on Sunday. “It’s Pope Francis,” said the voice on the other end of the line. “I started crying,” she recounted on Argentine...
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North Carolina Church Wanted “Only White People” as Greeters
Freedom House Church did not seem all that free this weekend. Makeda Pennycooke, the church’s executive pastor of operations, sent an email to church volunteers asking that “only white people” greet...
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Christians for Gay Marriage Launch “Not All Like That” Campaign
They call themselves the NALT Christians, and Wednesday morning they quietly launched a video campaign with a controversial message: there is nothing anti-Biblical or inherently sinful about being gay,...
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Snake Salvation: One Way to Pray in Appalachia
Andrew Hamblin handles poisonous snakes every Sunday in the name of Jesus. At just 22, he leads Tabernacle Church of God in LaFollette, Tenn., a Pentecostal church that practices a rare, century-old...
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Pope Francis Says to Pray for Political Leaders
Every morning, Pope Francis celebrates mass in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae. The service is small and intimate—usually fifty or so people attend—and the Holy Father preaches spontaneously in...
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The College Student Behind Viral ‘God is Gay’ Poem
Video of a slam poetry performance by a twenty-year-old University of North Carolina drama student is going viral, with nearly 70,000 views on YouTube. The controversial title and message of his poem:...
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Pope Francis Met with Nobel Peace Prize Winners
Pope Francis met with the winners of the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize two weeks ago today at the Vatican. Ahmet Üzümcü, the president of Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and former...
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New U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican Visits Pope
There’s a new American in Rome, and, he shares a name with the Holy Father. Pope Francis on Monday morning formally received the United States’ new Ambassador to the Holy See, Ken Francis Hackett, who...
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The Sermon Obama Heard Yesterday: Judge Not
President Obama and the First Family attended church yesterday morning at St. Johns Episcopal in Lafayette Square. Rev. Luis Leon preached on Jesus’ parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector in the...
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Rev. Billy Graham, 95, Throws a Short, Efficient Birthday Bash
The birthday bash for Reverend Billy Graham kicked off with a call for restraint. “We’re going to have a short evening,” his son said. “Daddy’s 95.” It took two hours for roughly 900 guests to...
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U.S. Bishops Elect New President
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops elected Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville to succeed Cardinal Timothy Dolan as the bishops’ next president on Tuesday morning. Kurtz, 67,...
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Baroness Sayeeda Warsi Addresses Crisis of Christian ‘Hemorrhaging’
Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, the United Kingdom’s first Minister of Faith, came to Washington last week on a mission to stop the global persecution of Christians. Warsi, the first Muslim ever to serve in a...
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Administration Rebuts Nuns in Obamacare Case
The Obama administration filed a response at the Supreme Court on Friday morning in an attempt to unblock the implementation of Obamacare for a group of religious charities, arguing that the nuns at...
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The Imago Dei Campaign: Evangelical Groups Say Gays Made in God’s Image
Gays are created in the image of God. So are liberals. The rich. The undocumented. Unbelievers. Everyone, even, and most importantly, the people with whom you do not agree. That’s the message of the...
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Pope Francis Willing To “Evaluate” Civil Unions, But No Embrace of Gay Marriage
It’s tough being Pope Francis: one day he’s accidentally using vulgarities, and the next day everyone thinks he’s upending the church’s doctrine of marriage. The latest fuss about the Holy Father’s...
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