"Obamacare" continues to be at the forefront of our nation’s health care epidemic. "Obamacare" continues to be at the forefront of our nation’s health care ...

June 18, 2013 Sojo in the News Rev. Howard Bess ...

Will native son and national hero Nelson Mandela survive his latest bout with illness? That is the single question dominating headlines, speeches, twitter, and conversation throughout South Africa. ...

A Methodist pastor of a suburban Oklahama City church is suing the state, claiming its license plate image of a Native American shooting an arrow into the sky violates his religious liberty. ...

Quebec’s decision to ban Sikh religious headgear on the soccer field is having national repercussions. Quebec’s decision to ban Sikh religious headgear on the soccer field is havi ...

President Obama on Friday nominated Ken Hackett, former head of Catholic Relief Services, to be the next U.S. ambassador to the Vatican. President Obama on Friday nominated Ken Ha ...

If there was ever a fear that the church is splintered, apathetic or dull, the passion and unity on display at the “Why We Can’t Wait” May Revival on Pentecost Sunday earlier this month proved a direct contrad ...

When Pope Benedict XVI shocked the world in February in becoming the first pope to resign in 600 years, he left behind a Roman Catholic Church weakened by scandals, beset by infighting and suffering from a gen ...

On a recent Sunday morning, Jenny Yang stood beside a giant wooden cross and made a case for immigration reform to members of an evangelical church. On a recent Sunday morning, Je ...

Republican's recently hired its former South Carolina chairman to lead engagement with evangelicals, even though 79 percent of evangelicals voted for Republican nominee Mitt Romney in 2012. The Washington ...

Majles ) for 20 yeas. He is a high-ranking cleric, a member of the Assembly of Experts for about 15 ...

The vast majority of evangelicals have voted with the GOP in recent elections. In fact, despite some qualms about his Mormon faith, 79 percent of evangelicals voted for Republican nominee Mitt Romney in 2012, ...

Mixing religion and entertainment, as NBC has tried to do with its new prime time TV sitcom Save Me, starring Anne Heche, can be a tricky business. Mixing religion and entertainme ...

would drive 15 minutes into Cape May, N.J., where we would hunt for consecutive parking spots along ...

whether they were obligated to pay Roman taxes (Matthew 22:15-22; Mark 12:13-17). An affirmative response ...

(cf. Micah 6:8; Amos 5:10,12,15).  Pictures as a  part  of due process may be helpful, but images ...

Jesus didn't worry much about stepping on political toes, and the Bible insists that governments be just toward the least of these (the books of the prophets alone make this point very clear). ...

will be justified by the works of the law” ( Galatians 2:15-16  NRSV). Paul asserts his authority as an apostle ...

Now that you’re joining the Patriots, I’d like to offer you a few pointers on your new regional home. I realize that, to someone from the deep South, this may seem like just another part of Yankeedom, but New ...

Why would evangelical Christians want anything to do with public schools? Judging from decades of culture war rhetoric, these are bastions of secular humanism where God and his fearers are unwelcome. School pr ...

On Slate, Emily Bazelon laments her colleagues’ lack of outrage at the revelations of the National Security Agency’s vacuuming up of data on what all of us are doing. In the New York Times, Ross Douthat explai ...

Nearly 35 years after conservatives launched a takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention, a new divide is emerging — this time over the teachings of 16th-century Reformer John Calvin — that threatens to upen ...

Bishops in the Church of England, who had strenuously opposed a bid to allow same-sex marriage, signaled that they won’t try to derail the bill after an overwhelming vote of support in the House of Lords. ...

[Will Campbell] confused his critics – first the Right and then the Left – by insisting that his soul did not belong to any team – racial, political, religious, cultural. It belonged to the Kingdom of God. The ...

Finding the integral relationship between your own personal good and the common good is your best contribution to our future. And it is the best hope we have for a better life together. ...

For over half a century, Gallup has been asking Americans whether they think the influence of religion is increasing or decreasing in the U.S., posing the intriguing question of what the results actually signi ...

May 30, 2013 Sojo in the News Sarah van Gelder ...

The panelists who came to assess the state of religious freedom in the nation accepted the point that their various faiths might not stand together on anything beyond the need to protect religious freedom, and ...

The Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider whether prayers can be offered at government meetings — a practice that’s been common in Congress and throughout the states for more than two centuries. ...

CLAREMONT, Calif. — Last Sunday, Timothy Murphy began a fast of solidarity with the Guantanamo inmates who are on a hunger strike to protest their indefinite detention. As one of our Ph.D. students and an orda ...

in their decisions. This year, at least 36 anti-foreign law bills have been proposed in 15 states, down from 51 ...

Twenty-five religious leaders gathered in DC to commit themselves to civil discourse. Twenty-five religious leaders gathered to commit themselves to civil discourse. The meeting b ...

Lauren Markoe  covered government and features as a daily newspaper reporter for 15 years before ...

by ministry donors for that purpose. The IRS audits were conducted on Oct. 15 at Samaritan’s Purse, ...

Rand Paul has used the last few months to aggressively court evangelicals through a CBN special, a trip to Israel, and appearances with pastors. Rand Paul has used the last few mo ...

May 15, 2013 Sojo in the News Joanne Boyer OpEdNews.com ...

May 13, 2013 Sojo in the News Martin Marty ...

May 13, 2013 Sojo in the News Kat Katsanis-Semel ...

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world — about 1.6 million people in 2010. Mass incarceration in our country is a problem, one that too often serves to line the pockets of for-profit ...

Soon after the Boston Marathon bombings, local Christian leaders stepped swiftly into the public eye, convening vigils and urging peaceful healing in the wake of senseless violence. But their public voices hav ...

Elizabeth Smart, who was kidnapped from her home in Salt Lake City and held in captivity for nine months in 2002 at age 14, spoke out about her experience at a human trafficking panel at Johns Hopkins Universi ...

The U.N.'s new Arms Trade Treaty will for the first time link arms sales to the human rights records of the buyers. On April 2, the United Nations passed an innovative Arms T ...

May 6, 2013 Sojo in the News Tavis Smiley ...

members, who gathered April 14-15 in Birmingham, Ala., to commemorate the 50th anniversary of King's ...

Indeed, we must give up our personal or private identities to the service of all. But how do we do this as a culture, a global church? Editor’s Note:  Jim Wallis’ latest ...

April 30, 2013 Sojo in the News David Neff ...

What would it be like if, instead of responding to violence with vengeance, we, as leaders, imagined ways for love to drive out hate? When I got off the plane at O’Hare Airport in Chicago on my way home to Boston on April 15, I couldn’t ...

Commission on International Religious Freedom counts 15 nations where abuse of religious liberty ... on International Religious Freedom counts 15 nations where abuse of religious liberty is “systemic, egregious, ... and/or detention,” according to the report. On its 15-nation list of the worse offenders, USCIRF ...

April 30, 2013 Sojo in the News Jim Wallis ...

The Guantanamo prisoners began hunger striking on Feb. 6 after guards confiscated their Korans to examine them for contraband. ... Fueling the strike is the men’s loss of hope of ever leaving Guantanamo alive, ...