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Banners proclaiming "Jesus saves" appear next to those bearing the name Trump...

Opinion: Truth over power: It is past time for the church to speak plainly about the election

Storming of U.S. Capitol
by: Roxanne Stone (Esau McCaulley) Jan. 8, 2021 (RNS) — We can be sure some who stormed the Capitol claimed allegiance to the Christian faith. Banners proclaiming “Jesus saves” appearRead More

One of my favorite Bible stories comes when the prophet Nathan confronts David...

Opinion: At the Capitol, evangelicals’ ‘Thou art the man’ moment

Senator James Lankford
by: Paul O’Donnell (Maina Mwaura) Jan. 9, 2021 (RNS) — I remember my mom looking in my young face and telling me that my father, who had gone to hisRead More

There’s a lesson in "The Last Battle" for America in 2020...

Opinion: Revisiting ‘The Last Battle’: C.S. Lewis’ Narnia tale for our time

"The Last Battle" by C.S. Lewis
by: Bob Smietana Dec. 31, 2020 (RNS) — The end of the world begins with a con. A little lie, told by a petty grifter, who is willing to betrayRead More

He (Donald Trump) in many ways became the face of white evangelicalism.

Opinion: Evangelical Christians once were saved. After Trump, they’re lost.

Ronald Reagan
by: Paul O’Donnell (Michael O. Emerson, Joel Edward Goza) Nov. 24, 2020 (RNS) — For reasons that have to do with our reading of the Bible, the both of us movedRead More

Even with just over 60 days left in power, this administration has set three more execution dates.

Opinion: William Barr and the politics of death

William Barr
by: Paul O’Donnell (Shane Claiborne) Nov. 18, 2020 (RNS) — This week the United States will pass a quarter of a million lives lost to coronavirus, even as our courageousRead More

“The difference between mediocrity and greatness is vision,” the late Falwell Sr. often declared.

Opinion: Liberty University football team realizes Falwell’s winning vision, but at what cost?

by: Paul O’Donnell (Jonathan Merritt) Nov.20, 2020 (RNS) — Liberty University has long bragged about being one of America’s largest Christian colleges, but this year, it can also boast aboutRead More

For the historically minded, it is striking how much anti-Catholicism in American politics has changed since it arose in the 1840s.

Opinion: Playing the anti-Catholic card in the Barrett nomination

Amy Coney Barrett
by: Mark Silk Sept. 27, 2020 (RNS) — Before they were compelled to draw up a Bill of Rights, the guys inventing the U.S. government in Philadelphia in 1787 hadRead More

Just prior to Katrina, New Orleans had the second-highest concentration of poverty in the nation.

Opinion: From Katrina to COVID, American crises expose racial injustice again and again

by: Roxanne Stone (Jamie Aten) Aug. 29, 2020 (RNS) — To follow Christ’s mandate to love God and neighbor (Matthew 12) in this time of pandemic means white Christians, myselfRead More

Trump’s latest political ploy is demanding the opening of all schools in the fall...

Opinion: Reopening schools for all the wrong reasons

School bus
by: Kathryn Post (Jim Wallis) August 3, 2020 (RNS) — I am not the first one to say this, and it is less prophetic than just observably true: Donald TrumpRead More

The key to success, I believe, is to accept that this transformation will be permanent and make the most of it.

Opinion: Let’s stop pretending that virtual worship isn’t here to stay

Bishop Joseph W. Walker III
by: Paul O’Donnell (Joseph W. Walker III) July 24, 2020 (RNS) — It’s time to think big about the future of worship before the future passes us by. As thisRead More