They’re invited to meetings at the White House. They exchange calls, texts and emails with administration staffers. And they occasionally pray with the president. Here’s a list of some of the key evangelical leaders — mostly men but also one…

“Two men filed a complaint with the state of Colorado after they asked cake artist Jack Phillips to design a wedding cake to celebrate their same-sex ceremony. In an exchange lasting about 30 seconds, Phillips politely declined, explaining that he…

The rise in populist fervor and identity politics in the U.S. raises the question of where America is headed. America was founded on ideals, not identity. These ideals were laid out in the Declaration of Independence. Arguing that diversity is…

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has won a fourth term in office. She now ties with Conrad Adenaur who also was chancellor for four terms. Merkel’s conservatives easily outpaced the center-left Social Democrats. Nevertheless, the recent vote marks a significant shift…

In the 1950s and 1960s it was easy to argue and even get into fights over differences between Lutherans and Catholics. But today those animosities are long gone. No one is looking for a fight. Last October 31, Pope Francis…

Sweden is the most cashless society on the planet, with barely 1% of the value of all payments made using coins or notes last year. So how did the Nordic nation get so far ahead of the rest of us?…

An enormous crisis is brewing in Venezuela, a nation of more than 30 million people, with the largest oil reserves in the world. It is on the brink of collapse and civil war. The implications for the Americas are profound…

The former Growing Pains star and evangelical Christian has taken to Facebook to post a finger-wagging message that declares God sent the incredibly destructive and devastating Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma as divine punishment for our collective sins and to teach us “humility.”…

Hopes that rescuers will find more survivors trapped beneath collapsed buildings in central Mexico faded as the scale of the devastation wreaked by the country’s deadliest earthquake for a generation started to become clear. The death toll from the 7.1…

Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, President of the Conference of European Rabbis, has said that improved relations with the Vatican will help improve collaboration on common causes.  The rabbi led a delegation to Pope Francis to present a Jewish perspective on Catholic…

As Protestants prepare to mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, the theological differences that split Western Christianity in the 1500s have diminished to a degree that might have shocked Christians in past centuries. Across Europe and the U.S., the…

“One of the greatest strengths of the United States is a belief that speech, particularly political speech, is sacred,” wrote Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince in 2013. “There will be things on our network that make us uncomfortable,” Prince wrote. But…