It has been a year since the arrest and extradition of former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte to the International Criminal Court in The Hague. He is charged with crimes against humanity, ...

A Lutheran pastor identifies five false teachings that threaten to corrupt the church’s public witness. If we can learn anything from the history of Christian heresies, it is that they never truly ...

Dream City Church leaders honored conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was fatally shot on Sept. 10. Pastors at the Phoenix church compared Kirk to Jesus and described his role in bringing ...

There’s been a lot of mingling of Christianity and politics since Charlie Kirk was murdered. Tucker Carlson opened one of his shows with a straight-up sermon: “This is a religion committed to love ...

The Trump administration’s Religious Liberty Commission released its report on June 26, 2026, on the state of religious freedom in the United States, declaring it to be under attack. The commission ...

This week's wild news cycle was a church and politics mash-up that started with the president of the United States taking on — more than once and with no plan to apologize — the U.S.-born leader of ...

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Contemporary tensions between U.S. political authority—seen in figures like Donald Trump—and ecclesial authority, symbolised here by Pope Leo XIV, point to deeper structural instability. These ...