Focus on the Family
As March for Life continues, supporters, opponents plan more state action
By Adelle M. Banks — January 18, 2024
(RNS) — ‘I think where we're going to see the most engagement and the most action is at the state level,’ said Focus on the Family analyst Nicole Hunt.
How a bucolic Tennessee suburb became a hotbed of ‘Christian Nashville-ism’
By Bob Smietana — November 8, 2023
(RNS) — The mix of religion, power, money and influence around Nashville and its suburbs makes it fertile ground for a Southern evangelical take on Christian nationalism.
Replacing vengeance with mercy in our death penalty policy
By Karen Swallow Prior — March 7, 2023
(RNS) — The troubling case of Andre Thomas invites a closer look at all the factors that play a part in the death penalty.
Can a bestselling Christian marriage book about love and respect lead to abuse?
By Bob Smietana — January 29, 2020
(RNS) — A Christian marriage and sex blogger says a bestselling book called 'Love and Respect' has a toxic message. The book's author rejects that claim and says he's spent decades trying to prevent abuse.
Why won’t most of Trump’s ‘court evangelicals’ publicly condemn his border policy?
By John Fea — June 21, 2018
(RNS) — While a few conservative evangelical Trump supporters have openly criticized his administration's border policy separating children from their parents, most of the 'court evangelicals' have not. Their silence sheds light on how evangelicals have defined 'family values' for the past 40 years.
New light of the anti-abortion movement — an accomplished woman with Down syndrome
By Delta Systems — March 7, 2018
(RNS) — Anti-abortion groups are particularly worried about the high proportion of women choosing to terminate fetuses with Down syndrome after prenatal testing, which has become increasingly sophisticated and accurate.
Neil Gorsuch’s own faith is a poor predictor of how he would judge religious issues
By Steven K. Green — March 22, 2017
(The Conversation) In most instances, a justice’s religious faith has been a poor predictor of his or her judicial philosophy.
Evangelicals: We don’t have all the answers
By Steve Rabey — April 28, 2016
DENVER (RNS) As evangelicals fear losing social influence amid America’s shifting mores, some are reaching out to the other side.
‘Evangelicals for Life’ participants join Catholics in annual march
By Adelle M. Banks — January 22, 2016
WASHINGTON (RNS) Many are first-timers at the anti-abortion annual event. "This is an issue that is worth walking in a blizzard for,” said one woman planning to march.
Christmas wins (in the December culture wars)
By Kimberly Winston — December 1, 2015
(RNS) "Battleground December" is wrapping up for 2015. Let’s tally up the wins and losses.
Southern Baptists urged to engage with politics, but be civil
By Heidi Hall — August 5, 2015
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (RNS) Speaker after speaker reiterated the point that it is a Christian’s duty to ensure biblical principles are being upheld by elected officials.
Mental illness rarely addressed by churches
By Adelle M. Banks — September 22, 2014
(RNS) Most Protestant clergy rarely preach about mental illness to their congregations, and only about a quarter of congregations have a plan in place to assist families of the mentally ill, a new LifeWay Research survey found.
COMMENTARY: May God have mercy on Fred Phelps
By Amy Tracy — March 20, 2014
(RNS) I don’t like to think of Jesus with Fred Phelps through the hands and words of a hospice volunteer -- but that shows how far off the mark I am in the grace department. It’s a cause for prayer, for sure.
Did your absentee father make you an atheist?
By Kimberly Winston — January 13, 2014
(RNS) “I am certainly not predicting that every atheist is the result of one hypothesis, much less mine,” said Catholic psychologist Paul C. Vitz. “I am just saying there is a tendency for more things to go together than you’d expect normally.”
Conservatives promote House bill to protect opponents of gay marriage
By Lauren Markoe — September 24, 2013
WASHINGTON (RNS) The bill signifies a shift in strategy for gay marriage opponents: Increasingly resigned to the reality that they're unlikely to stop gay marriage, they're now trying to blunt its impact by carving out explicit protections for dissenters.
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