Westminster Theological Seminary and two co-plaintiffs have received a favorable ruling in a 46-page opinion from a federal court in Houston in their challenge to the so-called contraceptive mandate provision of the Affordable Care Act about providing access to abortifacient or abortion-inducing drugs and devices in their employees’ insurance plan

The United States Supreme Court has officially scheduled oral arguments for what many believe will be a landmark case regarding religious liberty. Hobby Lobby Stores Inc., a Midwest crafts retail chain, will get to present oral arguments against the Department of Health and Human Services’ “preventive services” mandate on Tuesday, March 25.

A federal judge has found unconstitutional a law that lets clergy members avoid paying income taxes on compensation that is designated part of a housing allowance.

I know the African church faces big challenges. But as I watched the people worship at altars in Nairobi and Lilongwe, Malawi, I couldn’t help but say to myself, “I wish we had this in the USA.”

University of Illinois law professor Pamela Foohey, who tracks church bankruptcies, says more than 500 congregations filed Chapter 11 between 2006 and 2011—and the pace hasn’t slowed since. About 90 congregations filed for bankruptcy in 2012, even as the overall rate of bankruptcy filings declined 13.4 percent.

In recent years, a debate about Calvinism has generated controversy within the Southern Baptist Convention, with each side of the debate convening conferences, publishing books and issuing theological statements. Mohler holds to Calvinistic soteriology. Hankins was the primary author of “A Statement of Traditional Southern Baptist Understanding of God’s Plan of Salvation,” issued in 2012 as an alternative to Calvinism.

Bethany Christian Services, a Christian-based child welfare organization, reports that 26,000 teens “age out” of our nation’s foster care system each year. Of these, more than 50 percent will not graduate from high school, and nearly a third of them are expected to be homeless or incarcerated.

Over the recent decades—particularly this last one—New York has seen a surge in evangelicalism. Some cultural experts believe the Big Apple to be on the brink of another ‘Great Awakening.’

Christianity Today projects the prospects for persecution of Christians worldwide in the coming year.

About 10 years ago Eric Foley, the co-founder of Seoul USA, asked a member of the underground church how he could pray for them. He recalls the North Korean’s response, “You, pray for us? We pray for you … because South Korean and American churches believe challenges in the Christian faith are solved by money, freedom, and politics. It’s only when all you have is God do you realize God is all you need.”