archiveReligion Run Amok

For most churches, being baptized is a critical step. When I was a kid, the fact that I hadn't been by the time I was in grade school raised eyebrows.

The recent blood moon, predictably, led to another prediction that the “end times,” the period of time living up to Judgement Day, is now at hand.

A senior Anglican minister apologized for calling on Christians to pray that Prince George would be gay to foster support for same-sex marriage.

There's a phenomenon in Christian communities that seems very disturbing, even if people think they're doing it for the right reason: it's called ghosting.

A viral video shows a man who identifies himself as a pastor yelling the truth about Santa as kids wait at a mall to pose for photos with a mall Santa.

Sooner or later, when the discussion about Jesus and his possible advocacy of guns comes up, someone will bring up the swords verse. Recently, I shared on Facebook what I considered to be a very good post from John Pavlovitz, a pastor in North Carolina, about owning guns. I said...

Christians are ready to boycott over, of all things, this year's Starbucks Christmas cup, the paper cup the company is using to serve its coffee during the holiday season. Let me be as delicate as I can: If you're a Christian fuming over the design of Starbucks to the point...

I heard a Christian radio station ask an interesting question to its followers on Twitter the other day: “Have you ever led someone to Christ? We’d love to hear your story.” At the risk of sounding like a party-pooper, I’m afraid I’d have to put the kibosh on this if...

I’m not sure which God former Arkansas Mike Huckabee worships. I used to think we believed in the same one, but I’m no longer sure of that. I know he is an ordained Southern Baptist pastor, and I grew up in the Southern Baptist Church. But based on his recent...

I just learned from an article on Fox News that nearly 1,000 preachers planned to preach presidential politics this past Sunday as part of a quiet protest of a 1954 IRS regulation. I’m much happier to have learned of the protest after the fact than learning of it in church on Sunday.

...but I did “unlike” the Facebook page of an organization (or perhaps an individual) that posts a daily photo or graphic and instructs fans to like it if they <i>love</i> Jesus Christ. I know some of my readers aren’t religious, and I’m sorry of things just got weird there for a minute. Bear with me.

So I’m the type of Christian the LGBT community loves! So says an angry commenter who identifies herself as a Christian, despite an epic fail at acting like one. Her response is typical of a growing problem in society: people who disagree deciding to make it personal.

I recently “liked” a group on Facebook called “The Christian Left.” I did so mostly because I’m seeing the Christian Right be more and more wrong a good deal of the time when it comes to dealing with others. But one of the group’s posts on Memorial Day really shocked me.

My mom forwarded me an email this morning about an unnamed group of people organizing a mass prayer at 9:00pm eastern time (presumably tonight, though there’s no date mentioned). The purpose of the prayer? Read for yourself: “spend one minute praying for the safety of the United States, our troops,...