In 1991, some friends and I got to spend an evening with "A Wrinkle in Time" author Madeleine L'Engle, who was and is my favorite writer.

A week ago, on February 28, 2018, when the leaders of the nation mourned the loss of America’s Pastor Rev. Billy Graham, a special man also came to the U.S. Capitol in Washington DC to pay tribute and bid farewell to this most influential evangelist Billy Graham.

Speaking at Harvard University, Professor William Jeynes presented data that strongly suggest that the high stakes tests and standards associated with Common Core are particularly hurting students of color. William Jeynes, a Harvard graduate and Senior Fellow at the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton, New Jersey, asserts that Common Core is not only addled itself, but also that the American obsession with constantly changing its educational paradigm is having a dramatic negative impact on America’s youth, especially those of color.

An interracial group of young men will be taking part in a journey of reconciliation to mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of civil rights champion Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Their 50-mile March to Memphis will take them from Dundee, Miss., to the city where Dr. King was killed on April 4, 1968, to join in commemorative events there.

Two new videos from Everence® – called Giving moments of grace – illustrate how much a man’s end-of-life planning meant to his family.

(AP) — As evening began to fall Thursday, many Muslims worried that darkness could bring more attacks, and that police would do little to stop them.

(AP) — The move is just the latest in a series of blows to Suu Kyi’s international reputation, which has plummeted over the Rohingya massacres.

(AP) — The dossier, containing WhatsApp chats and other evidence, was compiled by a self-proclaimed gay escort.

Reporters now have until March 9th to submit their best work in religion reporting from 2017. Journalists, authors, photographers and students are invited to enter the 2018 Religion News Association Awards for Religion Reporting Excellence. More than $10,000 among 21 award categories is up for grabs this year.

From the President’s televangelist advisor, immigration, to Muslims in America – this year’s 2018 Wilbur Award winners aren’t afraid to dive into the well of divisive issues to find inclusion, unity and understanding throughout vast communities of diverse belief systems.

Forty percent of US Catholics believe that Christian persecution around the world is “severe.” Four-in-ten Catholics say that half or more of religiously-based attacks around the world are directed at Christians.

Author Andrew Root says, "As the church finds itself with an authenticity deficit, it often runs to youthful forms to legitimate it."

Hartford Seminary’s Board of Trustees today named Dr. Joel N. Lohr as the Seminary’s next president. On July 16, he will succeed Dr. Heidi Hadsell, who is retiring after leading the Seminary for 18 years.

Even though most countries in Africa had been decolonized by the 1950s, an influx of Western donors and corporation have imposed an entirely new colonization on the continent and its citizens, with strings attached to billions of dollars in aid all in efforts to slow population growth, destigmatize same-sex marriage and make abortion commonplace. Never mind that the African people have little to no interest in any of these changes, the neo-colonization of Africa is in full swing, warns Nigerian human rights activist Obianuju Ekeocha in her new book, TARGET AFRICA: IDOLOGICAL NEOCOLONIALISM IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY.

YAOUNDE, Cameroon – Human rights groups in the Central African country are working with religious leaders to discuss the consequences of homophobic attitudes and hate speech.