For so long a time, the West enjoyed the benefits of its Judeo-Christian moorings that were largely theological at their very core. Such a matter of fact was foundational to Western disciplines of learning such as law, ethics, psychology, science, and history, among others ...

We engage our community and culture not in order to repair it, but in order to subvert it. To joyfully, subversively effect it so that it is ultimately changed into something good.

The Tony Blair Faith Foundation launched a global film competition on Thursday in an effort to increase understanding between people of different faiths. "By gaining insights into the lives of young people across the world this competition has the potential to build bridges across cultural and religious divides," said the former prime minister of the United Kingdom. The competition is geared toward those who are 25 years old and under. They are being asked to make a short film demonstrating how their faith inspires them.

I would like to talk about what Millennials’ attitudes toward faith are and what the evangelical church and social conservatives should do in response. I am convinced they can be reached, empowered, and mobilized …but not with the same old tired rhetoric and judgmental approaches.

Paul Borthwick holds a doctorate in Cross-Cultural Ministry from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and teaches missiology at Gordon College near his Boston home. Borthwick, who has coordinated over 100 missions trips all over the world, spoke with Round Trip Missions about the future of short-term missions and about how to best serve with our Christian brothers and sisters in the Global South.

Eclectic Claremont School of Theology event analyzes future of American Christianity, which participants say must embrace technology to survive. Just call them members of Church 2.0.

Quest doesn’t have the words ’social justice’ or ‘economic justice’ anywhere on our website (to my knowledge) but we still have our share of folks that leave our church citing numerous reasons. Personally, I have been called a liberal, a heretic, an evangelical, a conservative, an angry Asian man, a megalomaniac, a communist, and some other things but never a Nazi (just wanted to clear that up just in case you had doubts). But Quest does speak of mercy, justice, and humility not because they are code words for some sort of agenda but because they are central to the Triune God.

Joel Osteen is “the new face of Christianity.” That breaking religion news out of Houston — published 4,845 miles away in London — arrives courtesy of a 3,800-word profile in The Observer, which boldly declares: If anybody is the face of evangelical Christianity in America today, it is Joel Osteen.

A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld the constitutionality of references to God in the Pledge of Allegiance and on national currency. The pledge does not constitute an establishment of religion, Judge Carlos Bea wrote for the majority in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. "[T]he Pledge is an endorsement of our form of government, not of religion or any particular sect." The three-judge panel ruled 2-1.

The study of religion is too important to be left in the hands of believers. So claims David A. Hollinger, a professor of American history at the University of California at Berkeley, in his response to religion emerging as the hottest topic of study among members of the American Historical Association (AHA).