The process began at 1 p.m., when Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell convened a joint session of the House and Senate to certify the states' Electoral College results and affirm Joe Biden's status as victor of the Nov. 3 vote. In recent years when these have occurred, the process took all of 20 to 40 minutes.  But this time around, it took more than 14 hours to get to the result: Biden 306, Trump 232.

...In conjunction with the Jericho March, Trump supporters—both religious and otherwise—convened for a rally backing Trump’s efforts to have the results of the election overturned.

Zhang Zhan, an independent Christian journalist who covered the COVID-19 outbreak and lockdown in Wuhan, China, has been sentenced to four years in prison for “picking quarrels and provoking trouble.”

For believers under democratic rule, peaceful transitions are “part of honoring and submitting to God’s ordained leaders.”

Twitter censored a video from President Donald Trump calling on protesters at the U.S. capitol building to peacefully disperse and go home. Twitter users were prevented from liking, retweeting, or replying to the tweet because of a “risk of violence.”

Isn’t it odd that the people who claim to hate and despise Trump’s behavior the most always end up acting worse than he does? That’s not a new phenomenon, but it’s one that remains pervasive in the news media.

Karen Swallow Prior, Ph.D. blamed pro-life Christians for the surge in COVID cases in Los Angeles, stating, “The culture of death we ‘pro-life’ Christians warned about is here. We brought it.”

....Republican activist Charlie Kirk explained the legal precedent for Vice President Mike Pence to reject state electors on Jan. 6, noting that similar powers have been invoked by Vice Presidents Thomas Jefferson and Richard Nixon.

....So, for as much as 2020 was a disaster in a myriad of other ways, it was also not a great year in the world of social media. All the more reason you and I should resolve to use social media for good this year. Why? Here are three reasons:

....towards the end of the ‘prayer’ Cleaver asked the Hindu deity Brahma for “peace across the land” and inside Congress as well.

New details have emerged related to the now-acknowledged sexual misconduct of the late Ravi Zacharias as recordings of a former business partner have surfaced describing Zacharias' misdeeds.  

The highest court in Massachusetts heard arguments Monday over whether a Christian college can refuse to promote a professor who holds pro-LGBT views.

Franklin Graham, evangelical pastor and son of the late Billy Graham, called out Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) for ending his opening prayer for the first day of the 117th Congress with “Amen and Awomen.”

The vast majority of Republican voters in Georgia say the 2020 presidential election between President Trump and Democrat Joe Biden was not conducted fairly, an exit poll for the state’s Senate runoff election reveals. 

...The central proposition of this article is that not only is church essential (a phrase that was birthed, of necessity, in 2020), church discipline is essential.

The division between Baptists is not between blacks and whites but between those who are woke on race and those who are not.

It is now legal in Massachusetts for 16- and 17-year-olds to get an abortion without parental or judicial permission, after a veto override by the state legislature.

...Over the weekend hundreds gathered at the Georgia statehouse to march and pray for biblical values to be exalted in the Senate runoff elections. Organizers also encouraged participants to fast until polls close and do whatever they can to help voters understand what's at stake.

A number of churches, faith-based schools and businesses have signed an open letter to Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, asking him not to enforce the so-called “Virginia Values Act” in a way that attempts to “force” Christians to violate their deeply-held convictions under penalty of law that includes up to $100,000 in fines for each infraction.

A Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives who also leads St. James United Methodist Church in Kansas City, Missouri opened the 117th Congress with a prayer on Sunday that ended with citing the Hindu and Buddhist god Brahma and the seemingly gendered remark “amen and a woman.”

Washington, D.C.'s mayor urged calm Monday as some 340 National Guard troops were being activated while the city prepared for potentially violent protests surrounding Congress' expected vote to affirm President-elect Joe Biden's victory.

Six elders of a church in Ontario, Canada, have been asked to appear in a criminal court for holding in-person services in violation of COVID-19-related restrictions. The elders, who face a fine of up to $10,000, say the action is “a violation of God-given rights.”

Celebrated evangelical pastor Franklin Graham warned that new “gender-inclusive language” in the House of Representatives threatens the most fundamental human relationships.

If it seems that you have been hearing or reading the term “Christian Nationalism,” or one of its obscure variants like “Christian Dominionist,” a lot more often recently, it’s because you have.