...Even if athletes have long been superstitious, their newfound willingness to name their various mystical practices slots into a broader cultural moment. In recent years, we’ve seen a real uptick in idioms utilizing “mood,” “energy,” and “vibes”; Enya is having a moment; young people are obsessed with astrology, and crystal sales have seen an uptick.

The British coronavirus strain is doubling in the U.S. every 10 days, according to a study released Sunday on the medRxiv server.

Four of the men who will take the field for tonight’s Super Bowl have made clear that, while they want very much to win the football game, there is something vastly more important and rewarding in their lives.

The church in Myanmar is asking Christians worldwide to pray for them following this week's military coup.

Only Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Tom Carper oppose motion; Jerusalem council recently approved plans for additional embassy compound.

....We fail if we abandon the streets of our towns and cities to the cults.

...If public education is failing, then maybe it’s time to try other options.

The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives both approved Friday (Feb. 5) a budget resolution that paves the way for enactment of President Biden’s proposed $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package.

Time magazine has published a detailed account of what it describes as a “conspiracy” between “left-wing activists and business titans” to create “an extraordinary shadow effort” to “protect” the 2020 presidential election.

What will US religion look like in a decade or two? This is the subject of a lively scholarly controversy right now...People who look at US religion, which predominantly means Christianity, differ significantly on present prospects.

...In the midst of these challenges, there has been a whole raft of lessons and learning. It has reminded and reinforced things I have always believed about preaching and revealed and created a reckoning with things that I didn’t know about my heart.

....The new refrain is that Christians are so foolish, even racist, because we voted for Donald Trump and believe in an array of “conspiracy theories.” Here is the latest article promoting Christian gullibility....

COVID-19 has, at the very least, forced churches to think about conducting ministry and mission in the digital space.

A proposed law on religion in Denmark would require clergy to translate their messages into Danish and submit them to the government.

President Joe Biden’s deputies are trying not to detain the rapidly rising inflow of economic migrants who are coming across Americans’ Southern border in search of blue-collar jobs, homes, and the Democrats’ dangled prize of American citizenship.

Iran has deepened a key breach of its 2015 nuclear deal, enriching uranium with a larger number of advanced centrifuge machines in an underground plant as it faces off with the new U.S. administration on salvaging the accord.

...As churches return to in-person gatherings, they are abandoning their digital and streaming services. At the very least, they are not giving them the attention they did during the quarantine. It’s a mistake. It’s a big mistake. Here are seven reasons why we believe strongly your church must continue to emphasize and invest in digital and streaming services. 

...To help church leaders better understand the issue and how it affects the working poor, here are 10 mostly undisputed points you should know about the minimum wage.

Women imprisoned in China’s network of internment camps in Xinjiang are subject to horrific torture, systematic rape, and sexual abuse as the country's Communist leadership seeks to "destroy" those it sees as a threat, a graphic new report has revealed. 

...Unwilling to comply with an order that would prevent the church from essential elements of corporate worship, the pastor said: “the government is forbidding what God requires”. Therefore, the time had come for his church to defy the government. 

Pastors should be servants...But alas, it is not always so. Good men can go wrong, some slowly and imperceptibly, some fast and furious.

Child sexual abuse in an institutional setting is most likely to occur in schools, followed by religious institutions and care homes, according to research by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA). 

The COVID-19 pandemic showed that governors have enormous power to rule by edict during wartime-like circumstances. After seeing restrictive lockdown orders in other states shutter churches, a group of Arkansas legislators enacted new legislation to prevent executive overreach.