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…

On September 14, by a margin of 211 to 198, the U.S. House of Representatives quietly voted to change the Johnson amendment in relation to churches. The Johnson Amendment prevents churches and other non-profits from endorsing political candidates or supporting political…

Speaking of North Korea, and using Biblically suggestive language, Donald Trump, President of the United States, told the United Nations General Assembly that the “righteous many” must destroy the “wicked few,” in order to maintain global security. “If the righteous…

Rescuers fanned out to reach stunned victims Thursday after Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico, knocking out electricity to the entire island and triggering landslides and floods. The extent of the damage is unknown given that dozens of municipalities remained isolated…