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A "troubling" experience in Birmingham, Ala., helped cement Carl Ruby's resolve to work within the evangelical Christian community on behalf of immigrants in Ohio and across the U.S. Ruby was an administrator at Cedarville University in Greene County when he joined students on a 2010 civil-rights tour that included the Birmingham Civil Rights ... (more)

What to make of maverick Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul's latest speechifying? "I'm not advocating everyone go out and run around with no clothes on and smoke pot," Paul insisted last Friday while speaking to a group of religious Republicans in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

At the forthcoming General Assembly of the Church of Scotland it will be crunch time on accepting or otherwise gay ministers for ordination.

Immigration reform is not a liberal idea. It is good, old-fashioned conservative policy - at least that's what its supporters want the Republican faithful to believe.

Religious leaders are warning that including a gay rights amendment in a sweeping immigration bill could cost their support for the legislation.

EVANGELICALS in the Church of Scotland are braced for a "painful and final" defeat over gay clergy next week, with large numbers expected to leave the Kirk as a result.

When denominations, churches, faith-based organizations, theologians, pastors, and Christian celebrities change their beliefs on homosexuality, abortion, immigration, and other political and social hot-button issues, they often face a vitriolic pushback from many Evangelicals.

One of us was in Seattle this past weekend to speak at a meeting of biblical scholars.

The evangelical "Pray for Reform: 92 Days of Prayer and Action to Pass Immigration Reform" campaign called on Congress in a press call on Wednesday to pass meaningful legislation in the next 92 days, throwing further support behind the current momentum in Congress to finally pass a immigration reform bill.

Every few months since at least 2006, The New York Times takes time out from brow-beating Evangelicals to praise them for supporting amnesty for illegal aliens.

Every few months since at least 2006, The New York Times has taken time out from brow-beating Evangelicals to praise them for supporting amnesty for illegal aliens.

Richard Land, a leader of the Southern Baptist Convention, told reporters on a conference call Wednesday that evangelicals are hopeful the bill will remain focused on immigration and steer clear of gay rights.

Yesterday, the State of Michigan, twenty-one First Amendment scholars, and eighteen religious organizations representing tens of millions of religious believers filed friend-of-the-court briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court, urging the Court to hear a religious liberty appeal on behalf of a Hutterite colony in Montana.

The midday walk from the student center to the library is the closest thing to a Times Square experience anyone will find in rich diversity is on full display.

Thirty years ago, the National Association of Evangelicals adopted a policy statement condemning America's overcrowded and non-rehabilitative prisons.

Weinstein says those guilty of this "treason" must be "punished." Under federal law, the penalty for treason is death.

It required plenty of pushing for Yolie Lalama to persuade her husband, Pastor Daniel Garrido, to talk about immigration reform from the pulpit at The Crossing Church.

Evangelical Christians tend to give more to charity than their peers, according to a new study by the Barna Group.

"We desperately need comprehensive immigration reform," Richard Land, a prominent Southern Baptist leader, boomed to a packed church two blocks from the U.S. Capitol.

The Rev. Richard Cizik has struggled against opposition since 2002 to remind Christian followers that it is in God's - and our own - interest to acknowledge climate change and protect the environment.