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 ...

A recent proposed settlement in a federal court case out of Texas that would change how churches intersect with politics has become what supporters call restoring free speech rights and opponents call ...

I recently served as president of my church council. Any reader who has served on any church leadership committee will know what this means: long meetings that cut into evening family time; fielding ...

It’s one of the great paradoxes of our time. Many conservative pastors courageously preach a biblical worldview from their pulpits — defending life, marriage, and religious freedom — yet when it comes ...

The I.R.S. recently said that churches could endorse candidates from the pulpit, a shift from a longstanding interpretation of American nonprofit law. Credit...Desiree Rios for The New York Times ...

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 church sermon indelibly etched in my mind involves church-hoppers, those who move from denomination to denomination searching for the perfect one. "What these people don't realize is that if they do ...

Following are NCR reader responses to recent news articles, opinion columns and theological essays with letters that have been edited for length and clarity. President Trump's AI-generated image of ...

The day the 2024 election was called for Donald Trump, there was a palpable atmosphere of celebration at Awaken Church’s Kearny Mesa campus. Pastors at Awaken had been telling their congregations to ...

“What we’re fighting for is democracy,” Texas state Rep. Barbara Gervin-Hawkins said Sunday. She didn’t say this at a news conference or in a committee hearing or a TV interview. She spoke the words ...

My Christmas homily began by recounting how churches in the Boston and Chicago areas adjusted their outdoor Nativity creches by adorning them with ICE symbols. Then I described a modern Nativity ...