By: Jason Jimenez – summit.org – 2018 As the American culture grows increasingly more secular, churches are no longer carrying the kind of authority and influence they once had. Church is no longer a top priority for the bulk of young Americans, and a growing number of Christians don’t see the need to put down roots in a church. However,...

By: Focus Features – Released November 2, 2018 Focus Features presents writer/director/producer Joel Edgerton’s Boy Erased. The film is based on Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family by Garrard Conley and stars Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe, Lucas Hedges and Joel Edgerton. Boy Erased tells the courageous story of Jared Eamons (Hedges), the son of a Baptist pastor...

By: Ross Cluver – ccmmagazine.com – September 28, 2018 Kansas City, Mo. (September 24, 2018) For many, sports has become more of a platform than a way to glorify God. But nearly 200,000 students, coaches, parents and community members will gather on hundreds of athletic fields nationwide next month for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes 15th annual Fields of Faith...

By: David Closson – nationalreview.com – October 22, 2018 At a recent campaign rally in Texas, Beto O’Rourke, who is running against Ted Cruz for a seat in the United States Senate, remarkably claimed that “in this state, with 30,000 kids in the foster care system . . . they say that under the guise of religious liberty that you...

By: Bre Payton – thefederalist.com – October 4, 2018 The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the U.S. Department of Education has opened an investigation into a Georgia elementary school for its handling of a sexual assault that allegedly took place in an elementary school bathroom after a district-wide policy was enacted allowing male students to enter the girls’ bathroom....

By: Streiff – redstate.com – August 30, 2018 Michael Wang should have been a shoo-in for admission to an elite university. He was second in his high school class of 1,002 students and maxed the ACT. He was musically accomplished; he was selected to sing at Barack Obama’s inauguration and got third place in a national piano contest. He was...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – August 27, 2018 As I watch the crisis engulfing the Catholic Church, an analogy one of my pastors once made comes to mind. It will likely make some of my Catholic friends uncomfortable, but it’s helpful for understanding the way many Protestants view the larger body of Christ, the “Holy Catholic Church” of the...

By: Michael Brendan Dougherty – nationalreview.com – August 27, 2018 Well, it’s a relief to discover that, despite all its troubles, the Roman Catholic Church is still capable of producing gripping melodrama. This weekend Pope Francis was in Ireland, capping off the Church’s “World Meeting of Families,” held in Dublin. He apologized over and over again for the sins of...

By: Chris Enloe – theblaze.com – July 8, 2018 An Arkansas pastor is speaking out after he was accused of a “constitutional violation” for giving a Bible-based devotion at a high school football camp. What’s the background? Konnor McKay, pastor of Waldron Pentecostal Church of God in Waldron, Arkansas, was invited to his former high school last month to speak...

By: Michelle Boorstein and Gary Gately – washingtonpost.com – August 14, 2018 Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced on Aug. 14 a sweeping report on sex abuse in the Catholic Church. (Reuters) More than 300 Catholic priests across Pennsylvania sexually abused children over seven decades, protected by a hierarchy of church leaders who covered it up, according to a sweeping...