Evangelicalism

Book review: The histories of evangelical publishing companies include lives of leaders who held on to what they believed was a divine mandate to evangelize as they navigated the twists and turns of U.S. commerce.

Book review: While these essays make the case against President Donald Trump, in the end they are less about the president and his policies than they are about evangelicals and their abandonment of principle.

Lawmakers, religious leaders and health experts across the U.S. are wrestling with the question: Does religious freedom mean the freedom to risk infecting your fellow believers — not to mention neighbors — with a deadly virus?

On March 19, Trump administration officials continued to call out those who have violated government recommendations to avoid meeting in groups larger than 10 people, particularly younger Americans who have continued to dine out at bars and restaurants.

In 20th-century Brazil, with the world's largest Catholic population, "the Catholic Church lost about 1% of its followers per decade," notes one expert. "From the 1990s on, it started to shrink about 1% per year."

The 16 United Methodist bishops and advocacy group leaders who negotiated a recent proposal to split the denomination explained their reasoning at an event that was streamed live by United Methodist News Service.

In a letter to the president of Christianity Today magazine, more than 100 evangelicals chided the magazine for penning an anti-Trump editorial that they portrayed as a dig at their characters as well as the president's.

If experience can't prove it, data scraping will: Catholic sermons are shorter than their Protestant counterparts.

If experience can't prove it, data scraping will: Catholic sermons are shorter than their Protestant counterparts. According to an analysis of 50,000 sermons — Catholics commonly refer to theirs as homilies — the Pew Research Center determined that the median Catholic sermon is 14 minutes long.