The Christian right lost one of their main architects this past week. Jimmy Swaggart, televangelist, sex-worker patron, and later, internet meme, passed away at ninety-years-old on July 1st, 2025. During the 1980s, Swaggart’s empire rivaled... Read More

The 2023 Parliament of the World’s Religions theme was A Call to Conscience: Defending Freedom & Human Rights. Held August 14-18th in Chicago—where Parliament started in 1893 and returned for their next conference in 1993—it... Read More

A pastor in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, decided the best remedy to a global pandemic is to continue to  gather his congregation—despite federal guidelines, a state order banning groups larger than fifty (including churches), and evidence... Read More

On January 3, 2020, the United Methodist Church announced that after several rounds of mediation, it has crafted a plan to split in two. The reason: irreconcilable differences over LGBTQ inclusivity. In February of last... Read More

Last week, I participated in the Fellows Program of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty (BJC), a national group working in courtrooms and on Capitol Hill to protect the right for all Americans to... Read More

In July of 1925, The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes was argued in the small town of Dayton, Tennessee. Better known as the Scopes Monkey trial, the state sued substitute teacher John T.... Read More

After coming out as an atheist in 2015 while pastoring West Hill United Church in Toronto, Canada, Gretta Vosper found herself at the center of an ongoing debate in progressive church circles. Can someone be... Read More