A controversial new law allows chaplains to replace school counselors. School districts—and campus ministries—across the state are largely unfazed.
After the active duty airman self-immolated as an act of protest against the violence in Gaza, friends of Bushnell from the San Antonio church he attended remember someone who “loved hard and loved quickly.”
At eighty, the musician-artist-playwright is still doing things his way. (He is worried about the year 4024, though.)
A Houston-area priest is part of a group of religious leaders and media figures who draw followers interested in conspiracy theories and authoritarian government.
Billionaires here are funding right-wing politicians to knock down barriers between church and state. But a small countermovement is now rising to meet them.
At “Take Our Border Back” rallies across Texas, the convoy’s Christian nationalist rhetoric was on wide display. But not all soldiers are equally devout.
Deacon Jeff Willard blesses seafarers with everything from prayers to rides around Galveston Island to cherry cigarillos.
He’s one of the first faith-based coordinators for Texas inmates facing the death penalty. He’s scheduled to be executed this week.
Throughout the impeachment trial of Attorney General Ken Paxton, his wife, a state senator, shared her internal struggle one Bible verse at a time.
As United Methodist congregations across the U.S. leave over LGBTQ inclusion and the interpretation of Scripture, one East Texas community is rent asunder.
Declared a fake by many experts, the James Ossuary is coming to Texas for its first American exhibit.
David Morring of Dallas’s Lerma is one of the creative minds behind the “He Gets Us” campaign, which targets “spiritually open skeptics.”
The streaming phenomenon, produced just outside of Dallas, is winning converts with its ‘Friday Night Lights’ spin on faith.
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.
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.
Never has the Waco university been so big, so rich, so athletically powerful, or so committed to becoming the country’s first elite Protestant university. What does its ambition mean for its identity?
With a largely Protestant bias, according to examples culled by the Texas Freedom Network.
What is ex–football star Bill Glass’s plan for reforming hardened prison inmates? God is in the details.
Without having much reason to.
27-year-old was suffocated after months of allegedly being raped, at her husband's urging, by members of the prayer group he founded in Georgetown.
How would Jesus answer them? How will you?
San Antonio
The fastest-growing church in the world. The biggest congregation this side of the Vatican. The highest ratings of any religious broadcaster. One of the best-selling religious books in years. Can Joel Osteen get an “Amen”?
How can I be a Christian and support legalized abortion? Tough question, but after weeks of soul- searching, I have an answer.
In the Gulf Coast town of Santa Fe, high school football games had always kicked off with a prayer, but in June the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the practice violated the separation of church and state. Now the issuewhich has turned neighbor against neighbor and provoked some decidedly un-Christian
The gospel according to Michelle Shocked.
Practicing what he preaches.
Preaching tolerance.
With so many people attacking the Religious Right these days, being a Christian isn’t easy. But I keep the faith.
The tensions between the demands of the spirit and the demands of the world defined my marriage—and destroyed it.
With love, discipline, and old-time religion, Kirbyjon Caldwell has built one of Texas’ most vital churches.
Since AIDS infected their lives, the proud, the deeply religious Allens have been left to ponder the eternal questions of faith and suffering.
How Madalyn Murray O’Hair became the supreme being of the American atheist movement.
He had a wife and a girlfriend. His ambition was unchecked. He tried to commit suicide. But when I came face to face with the minister of my boyhood church, the sin we talked about was murder.
The bishop denied until the end that he got AIDS from homosexual contact. But the furor that resulted from his death has opened the door on his life as a gay man.
Heads turn when he passes. He’s on half of Houston’s A-party list. Rock singer? Investment banker? Nope. Meet Father Jeffrey Walker, Episcopal priest.
W. A. Criswell has spent forty years convincing his huge flock at Dallas’ First Baptist Church that the end of the world is near. He hopes you’ll believe it too.
He’s the man with the Word, and the Word is for you.
Evangelist James Robison is using the pulpit, prime time television, and Cullen Davis to try to save the world.
How a towheaded kid from North Carolina became God’s best salesman.
Don’t take this wrong, but they’ve hired Eldridge Cleaver to get you.
Behind the mask is a man of God, a man devoted to the all-American goal of winning the all-American game as few have done before him.
Those Jesus Freaks are your children. But what's the colony like in Dallas?
