Religion

On May 14, Kansas City Chiefs placekicker Harrison Butker gave the commencement address at Benedictine College, a Catholic school in Kansas. Within 48 hours, the media elites were ablaze with outrage. There’s a “growing uproar,” warned NBC’s Hoda Kotb.

The Church of the Holy Spirit in Heidelberg, Germany, hosted a Taylor Swift-themed church service to draw in young attendees. Over 1,200 people attended the event, which focused on the religious convictions expressed in Swift's songs. The 600-year-old Protestant Church aimed to engage with issues relevant to younger generations. Multiple Taylor Swift songs were performed, with the congregation…

“O never give me over to my own heart’s desires, nor let me follow my own imaginations!”– John Wesley There are many reasons for the modern church’s loss of its prophetic voice, politics being just one of them. As in ancient times, trying to embrace what the rest of the world is doing has diminished the power of the church to address what used to be called “sinful behavior…

In a miraculous event, a gunman's weapon jammed during an attempted shooting of a Pennsylvania pastor, Glenn Germany, during a church service. The gunman, Bernard Polite, was subdued by church deacon, Clarence McCallister, until police arrived. Pastor Germany attributed the gun's malfunction to divine intervention and expressed his belief that the attacker suffers from mental illness. He…

These incidents reflect a rising trend of violence and aggression against Catholic and Christian churches.

Arkansas teacher Reagan Gray was arrested for allegedly sexually abusing a 15-year-old boy she met at Immanuel Baptist Church. Gray, a volunteer at the church, purportedly sent nude photos to the boy after getting his number from the church's music program WhatsApp group. The boy's parents discovered the explicit text messages in 2020 and Gray was removed from the student ministry, but later…

Scottie Scheffler, the winner of the recent Masters golf tournament, used his victory to glorify Jesus Christ.

This document, entitled "Infinite Dignity," asserts that biological sex and gender can be distinguished but not separated.

As the media bring their leftist lens to the "culture wars" and religion in politics, they're prone to simplifying everything and only covering religion when it intrudes on the new orthodoxy of wokeness. Terry Mattingly operated the site GetReligion for 20 years, and he explains how he assesses the media's handling of religion stories.

This week, famed atheist Richard Dawkins explained that he was a “cultural Christian.” Praising his civilization, Dawkins stated, “I do think that we are culturally a Christian country. I call myself a cultural Christian. I’m not a believer. But there is a distinction between being a believing Christian and being a cultural Christian. And so you know I love hymns and Christmas carols, and I…

Correspondent Sarah McCammon joined her NPR colleague Michel Martin on Thursday’s Amanpour and Company on PBS to discuss her book, The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church. Naturally, Evangelicals’ relationship with Donald Trump and the “politicization of religion” was a big part of the conversation, but McCammon made it clear that her…

Nebraska State Senator Mike McDonnell has changed his political affiliation from Democrat to Republican due to disagreements with his former party's stance on abortion. This self-professed man of Catholic faith felt unable to reconcile his personal beliefs with the policies favored by Democrats. Despite being a Democrat for 40 years, he felt his pro-life beliefs were not respected but punished…

MRCTV's Tierin-Rose Mandelburg appeared on One America News Network's In Focus with Alison Steinberg, discussing the perceived moral and mental decline in the nation. Topics included President Joe Biden's alleged prioritization of transgender people over Easter, and a case where a transgender woman was enabled to breastfeed by Duke University. They also touched on pop singer Lizzo potentially…

On this week's Woke of the Weak we saw how the left celebrated sin this Easter weekend.