pentecostalism

I’m writing from Washington, D.C., where we are bracing for a historic blizzard that might dump more than two feet of snow on the area. Grocery and hardware stores are being emptied of food, batteries…

A review of Robert Wuthnow’s “Inventing American Religion: Polls, Surveys, and the Tenuous Quest for a Nation’s Faith.”

Televangelist Kenneth Copeland claims his prayers for Donald Trump at a meeting with televangelists last month was not an endorsement. At the meeting, Copeland laid hands on the candidate and prayed…

Polls are good, but a crystal ball might be better.

Perhaps you are too young to remember Mike Huckabee’s 2008 presidential run. If so, you’re definitely too young to remember Tony Orlando. Who? If you were alive (and sentient) in the 1970s, you must…

People make a lot of assumptions about prisoners’ faith that just aren’t accurate.

Last Sunday evening, December 7, a plump pastor named Lee Minemann interrupted services in the largest Protestant church in Guadalajara, Mexico. Taking the podium, Minemann announced that Samuel…

New Vatican Confab on ‘Complementarity’ in Marriage Before the dust had settled from the Catholic bishops’ synod on the family, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith announced that it will be…

More African politicians jumping on anti-gay bandwagon as mob and official violence grows

How the Republicans are waging a war on the war on women.