The Year of Jen Hatmaker
The Texas evangelical leader landed herself in hot water over comments about the LGBTQ community. But the blowback prompted a bigger discussion: What does it mean to be an evangelical today?
The Texas evangelical leader landed herself in hot water over comments about the LGBTQ community. But the blowback prompted a bigger discussion: What does it mean to be an evangelical today?
Joel Osteen's megachurch is finally opening its doors, but only after a social media storm.
The pontiff did not weigh in on if Dez caught the ball during the 2015 playoff game against the Green Bay Packers (but come on, it was a catch).
What are “sincerely held religious beliefs?” Nobody really knows.
An Austin church remakes Catholicism without the Pope, celibate priests, or most of the other rules.
Paxton defends questioning Muslim prayer room on "Fox and Friends."
A view from Muslim Capitol Day in turbulent times.
In Oldham County, off U.S. 385.
A pastor at a Corpus Christi church is on a mission to build “the largest cross in the Western Hemisphere.”
Evangelist Lester Roloff drew a line in the dirt to keep the State of Texas from regulating his Rebekah Home for Girls. Years later, then-govenor George W. Bush handed Roloff's disciples a long-sought victory. But this Alamo had no heroes—only victims.
The country’s largest group of Muslims live in Texas, yet many of them don’t feel welcome here. A few young and progressive leaders—like Irving imam Omar Suleiman—are working to change that.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation demands their removal citing the First Amendment, but do the signs really make non-believers feel unwelcome?
Brann becomes a casualty in his own war with the Baptists. Texas Collection of Baylor University“In the year of our Lord, 1891, I became pregnant with an idea. Being at the time chief editorial writer on the Houston Post, I felt dreadfully mortified, as nothing
How a computer-loving Texas Tech grad launched one of the fastest-growing megachurches in the country.
That’s one way to do outreach to voters who may feel alienated by the presumptive Republican nominee for President.
The festival apologized, but the issue isn’t just racial insensitivity.
The pontiff becomes the Republican frontrunner's latest antagonist.
The display was to promote the separation of church and state, but it seems the governor missed that point.
His comments about Syrian refugees have gotten him national attention and could push more Texans to follow his lead.
According to the governor, local mayors aren’t allowed to ban firearms in their city halls, and religious charities can only help people he approves of.
I always knew that the work my dad did as an Episcopal priest and grief counselor was important. But I didn’t understand how important until the birth of my son.
What Ahmed Mohamed's case tells us about the American dream.
The deep fryer defender’s social media profile has since deleted the threatening image.
A Pew Research Study of religion in all fifty states suggests that the shift toward a less religious America may not just be on the coasts.
A Garland community center held a contest offering a $10,000 prize for the best drawing of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and it ended with two dead and a third injured.
We’re not even a quarter of the way through 2015 yet, and mosques have been burned, loyalty oaths have been demanded, and—in Dallas last week—a Muslim man was shot in the back while watching the snow fall.
The veteran rapper won’t perform his music at Rice for any amount of money. School is for teaching.
Catholics who see the racy film may have to get on their knees afterward.
At least seven places of worhsip in Texas have indoor running tracks, and other key takeaways.
A mailer sent out during an Austin City Council runoff makes this weird question relevant once more.
The Reverend Charles Moore ardently dedicated his life to the service of God and his fellow man. But when he couldn’t shake the thought that he hadn’t done enough, he drove to a desolate parking lot in his hometown of Grand Saline for one final act of faith.
Making a whole lot of people uncomfortable.
There aren’t that many cowboys anymore, and yet cowboy churches seem to be everywhere. What gives?
How did Robert Jeffress turn Dallas’s once-declining First Baptist Church into a vibrant megachurch? Certainly not by pussyfooting around.
The band Gungor is using the festival to broaden its fan base outside the churches where it made its name. Can it escape the stigma of Christian rock without alienating its devoted followers?
The arguments against teaching evolution in schools have largely failed. Have they finally come to an end?
Twenty-seven-year-old Catherine Grove is a member of a small, insular, and eccentric church in East Texas. Her parents think she’s being brainwashed. She insists she’s being saved.
Last time the First Presbyterian Church of Dallas held a gun buyback event, it caused a stir. Will this one cause the same outcry?
After a criminal noise complaint was filed—and quickly withdrawn—over the sound of the church bells at the Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in Mission, the city council voted to exempt churches from the noise ordinance. As the Rio Grande Valley shifts away from being monolithically Catholic, what does this
Like many churches across the nation, Bethel Church, in Temple, produces a hell house, a faith-based haunted house. These houses draw severe criticism for stoking the culture wars, but Bethel's leaders want to be open and tolerant in their messaging. Are they succeeding?
Lubbock, long a stronghold in the Bible Belt, is home to a new religious marketing campaign featuring a tattooed Jesus. The billboards picturing inked Jesus have irked some in the community (where churches outnumber tattoo parlors 25:1) and left others impressed with the message.
Like any political battle in Texas, the ongoing fight over the evolution in the state's science classes features colorful characters worth getting to know.
Once a year, a San Antonio congregation relives Jesus’ last days—and leaves the cellphones at home.
Joel Osteen, indefatigable televangelist and pastor of a Houston megachurch, was the butt of an online hoax that claimed he had lost his faith, and would leave the church. The Internet had a strong reaction.
The West Texan editor of Poetry magazine leaves his plum gig for divinity school.
Alcohol will be served—after the sermon.
"We've always attempted to think outside the box as far as what the needs of the community are," said Rev. Brad Foster, Calvary Baptist Church's senior pastor.
With a largely Protestant bias, according to examples culled by the Texas Freedom Network.
The world will end this Sunday, on the birthday of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement. Or so warns the imprisoned polygamist leader of FLDS.
In San Antonio, they already are. When a student protested that the RFID chips violated her right to privacy and threatened religious freedom, the school suspended her.