"Jesus makes me holy ... and hot": What Christian influencers say about their relationship with Christ religionunplugged.com/news/2025/9/...

As Algeria tries to assert itself on the international stage as a civilizational bridge, the country’s Christian community continues to face renewed challenges religionunplugged.com/news/algeria...

Of the 193 existing U.N. member states, some 147 already recognize a Palestinian state. But that number is expected to swell in the coming days, with several more countries expected to officially announce such recognition religionunplugged.com/news/2025/9/...

In modern times, Machiavellian leaders abound in the corporate world. Perhaps more surprisingly, many other business leaders resemble St. Francis: Humble and self-effacing, but by no means weak religionunplugged.com/news/machiav...

“Triumph of the Heart” tells the story of St. Maximillian Kolbe, who took the place of another prisoner in a concentration camp during World War II when the Nazi commander demanded that 10 prisoners be put into a cell to starve religionunplugged.com/news/2025/9/...

In an escalation of its already tight grip on religious freedom, China introduced a sweeping set of regulations that strictly control how clergy of officially recognized religions can operate online religionunplugged.com/news/2025/9/...

Alliances serve those facing homelessness and addiction religionunplugged.com/news/2025/9/...

Even in modern societies shaped by science, technology and universities — what sociologists sometimes call “disenchantment” — many people are still looking to astrology for meaning religionunplugged.com/news/blame-i...

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In one of his final public appearances before his assassination, Charlie Kirk joined comedian Bill Maher on the “Club Random” podcast for a conversation on faith, politics and free speech. Despite Maher’s irreverence, Kirk held firm to his Christian convictions religionunplugged.com/news/2025/9/...

When I read or listen to the news, I often think: What is God calling us, specifically as Christians, to say and do in response to this moment? religionunplugged.com/news/2025/9/...

UN inquiry finds Israeli actions in Gaza meets legal definition of genocide religionunplugged.com/news/2025/9/...

The series boasts a chillingly unique premise: Workers have the opportunity to undergo a surgery which renders them into two — all to manufacture a twisted work-life balance and preserve confidentiality around work religionunplugged.com/news/2025/9/...

Should we go to Mars? religionunplugged.com/news/mars-sh...

Americans remain divided as more states legalize assisted suicide religionunplugged.com/news/america...

The monastery is in the news again, and for unhappy reasons connected to the court decision. Under pressure from Greek Orthodox leaders internationally, the monastery's head resigned religionunplugged.com/news/2025/9/...

What do Joe Rogan, Charlie Sheen and Charlie Kirk have in common? religionunplugged.com/news/2025/9/...

Financial instability, high unemployment and poverty in South Africa have led some women to choose prostitution as a means of supporting their children religionunplugged.com/news/ministr...

The fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk during a speaking engagement at Utah Valley University has drawn widespread condemnation and renewed attention to the climate of political violence in the United States religionunplugged.com/news/2025/9/...

The key is whether the clergy and laity have clear understandings about what is expected from pastors and their families religionunplugged.com/news/2025/9/...

A majority of Americans do not believe God plays a role in presidential elections — a view that has remained consistent across several election cycles

Salvation Poem Project President Brennan McPherson sits down with film critic Joseph Holmes to discuss his new hand-drawn animation movie about the life of Jesus, "Light of the World" www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaVs...

Jimmy Lai submits appeal over life-threatening detention conditions religionunplugged.com/news/jimmy-l...

Leo Tolstoy spent half a century avoiding arguably the most essential truth of them all: Everything comes to an end religionunplugged.com/news/how-tol...

An almost reflexive question cropped up after the killing of six people in a terror attack in Jerusalem: Is this the beginning of a new Palestinian uprising — a “third intifada”? religionunplugged.com/news/link-re...

In the film “Guns & Moses,” Moses Zaltzman is a beloved Chabad rabbi in a dusty desert town in the fictional California town of High Desert religionunplugged.com/news/guns-an...

Churches have long stood as sanctuaries in both the spiritual and practical sense. They are places where the weary can find rest, the poor find refuge and the marginalized find community religionunplugged.com/news/dc-cler...

The fact that he has a choice at all to stare at screens for hours (yes, it goes there) and make quality judgments is the essence of what sets this show and the character apart religionunplugged.com/news/not-jus...

Pope Leo XIV declared Carlo Acutis the first Millennial saint. Before 80,000 pilgrims, many of them young families and digital natives, this wasn’t just a canonization. It was a prophetic moment for the Catholic Church religionunplugged.com/news/2025/9/...

As war drags on, Ukrainian-born Christian keeps serving refugees in Alaska religionunplugged.com/news/2025/09...

Justice Amy Coney Barrett isn’t just interested in selling books, but also rebuilding public trust in a Supreme Court that has approval ratings reach historic lows religionunplugged.com/news/supreme...

A new study by the Pew Research Center reveals that many religiously unaffiliated adults — often referred to as “nones” — still hold beliefs commonly associated with religion religionunplugged.com/news/pew-bel...

With college football and the NFL kicking off a new season, sports gambling is poised to ramp up religionunplugged.com/news/sports-...

The writers room for “Leanne” did some Southern-church research, but the faith content is nowhere near as smart and on-target as Morgan's stand-up comedy religionunplugged.com/news/leanne-...

Christians reach out (using Bibles and basketball) to Albanians religionunplugged.com/news/christi...

While the living conditions of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia have been widely documented, less attention has been given to the 22,500 registered with the U.N. Refugees Agency who fled to Hindu-majority India religionunplugged.com/news/rohingy...

Are we living in a new era of religious violence? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

The push to legalize psychedelics in America is not new. What distinguishes the latest round of advocacy, however, is its backing by a holy trinity of supporters: some scientists, politicians and clergy religionunplugged.com/news/religio...

Homelessness, poverty, drug abuse and debt are some of the major reasons why people make the underpass their home religionunplugged.com/news/the-chu...

The main issue with “The Sandman” is not that what it teaches isn’t true. It’s that, despite its constant insistence to the contrary, it isn’t beautiful. And when a dream isn’t true or beautiful, there’s no point in doing anything but to wake up religionunplugged.com/news/the-san...

As summer winds down and Americans gather with family and friends for barbecues and beach trips, Labor Day offers more than just a long weekend religionunplugged.com/news/labor-d...

Hurricane Katrina reshaped the landscape and unity of New Orleans churches religionunplugged.com/news/2025/8/...

Angel Studios sparks debate with scary faith film religionunplugged.com/news/2025/8/...

The implications of this tragedy ripple far beyond Minneapolis. It is the latest — and among the most chilling — examples of how places once considered safe sanctuaries have become targets religionunplugged.com/news/2025/8/...

In the wake of Phil Robertson’s death this past May, Tread Lively, GND Media Group and Fathom Entertainment will have a special theatrical re-release honoring him called, “The Blind: A Special Tribute to Phil Robertson” religionunplugged.com/news/the-bli...

The church was lifted onto a custom-built trailer and transported over two days as part of a larger project to relocate the Arctic city of Kiruna to safer ground due to the expansion of the world's largest underground iron ore mine religionunplugged.com/news/2025/8/...

The Religious Right sets its sights on reversing same-sex marriage religionunplugged.com/news/roe-to-...

A Kentucky church has encouraged its congregants to check objectionable books out of the public library and not return them … ever! religionunplugged.com/news/2025/8/...

Religious pluralism goes beyond tolerance or diversity, which are simply coexisting with people of different faiths religionunplugged.com/news/college...

“Honey Don’t!” follows private investigator Honey O’Donahue, a stylish and self-assured lesbian detective who starts looking into a string of murders and disappearances after one of her potential clients turns up dead religionunplugged.com/news/review-...