Putting the ‘exercise’ in free exercise
In recent years, the Supreme Court has shown a greater willingness to protect the First Amendment right of free exercise of religion from state and…
religious freedom
Foster care and adoption ministries praise ruling in Fulton v. Philadelphia
Jimmy Moore had been waiting for months for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide Fulton v. Philadelphia. The nation’s high court had heard oral arguments…
A voice for global religious freedom
James W. Carr, a longtime top administrator at Harding University in Searcy, Ark., was appointed last year to the nine-member U.S. Commission on International Religious…
Going virtual again: Churches return online as COVID-19 cases surge
Amid a nationwide surge in COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths, many Churches of Christ that had resumed in-person assemblies have moved worship back online, a Christian…
Justices flip script on COVID-19 worship bans, but health official urges closures
First New York. Now California. With the addition of a fifth, solidly conservative member — new Justice Amy Coney Barrett — the U.S. Supreme Court…
Amid coronavirus pandemic, a theology for not ‘assembling’
OKLAHOMA CITY — Well, this is awkward. We are used to arguing about the importance of the church “assembling together.” We’ve debated the importance of…
