The United Methodist Church has had a difficult week. At a special session of the church’s General Conference, delegates passed a plan maintaining the global denomination’s ban on same-sex [...]
Many of our current political and religious debates can be traced back to a particular time in American history. That’s the premise of a new book from historian Dr. Kevin M. Kruse, titled Fault [...]
The Bladensburg Peace Cross, constructed in 1925, sits in a busy roundabout six miles from the Supreme Court – and has become the latest symbol in the struggle between religious and secular [...]
In an alternate universe, Jesus Christ has returned and is appalled by what he sees among humankind. That alternate universe is titled Second Coming, a comic series by Mark Russell and Richard [...]
Throughout Black History Month, we usually look back to remember the leaders of the past. On questions of civil and minority rights, we are likely living in historic times in our own right. And [...]
Nearly four years after the Supreme Court ruled in the landmark civil rights case Obergefell v. Hodges, making marriage equality the law of the land, multiple state legislatures across the [...]
A Word from Welton about the Supreme Court giving its blessing to the execution of a Muslim convict without the presence of an appropriate faith leader – a final dignity routinely granted [...]
For decades, Bawa Jain has worked as a peacemaker and interfaith activist, tackling some of the world’s biggest challenges. He served as secretary-general of The Millennium World Peace Summit of [...]
For the past five years, the Rev. Amanda Henderson has served as the executive director of Interfaith Alliance of Colorado. She was recently named one of the leading 15 disruptors and [...]
A new investigation has uncovered approximately 700 cases of sexual abuse within the Southern Baptist Convention over the course 20 years. The investigation has implicated nearly 400 Southern [...]