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A conservative Christian and a lesbian: In memoir, Amber Cantorna tells about...
Photo provided by Amber CantornaAmber Cantorna’s memoir “Refocusing My Family” comes out Oct. 1. Amber Cantorna is the daughter of an executive at the conservative Christian organization Focus on the...
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Book review: Alice McDermott’s new novel begins with suicide and culminates...
Farrar Straus Giroux“The Ninth Hour” by Alice McDermott By Lily King, Special to The Washington Post “The Ninth Hour,” Alice McDermott’s superb and masterful new novel, begins with a suicide and...
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Congressman to flood victims: “God is telling you to move”
DALLAS — The chairman of the House Financial Services Committee says victims of repeat flooding should consider Harvey’s devastation a sign from on high. U.S. Rep. Jep Hensarling, a Republican from...
View ArticleMormon leader reaffirms faith’s opposition to gay marriage
SALT LAKE CITY — A top Mormon leader reaffirmed the religion’s opposition to same-sex marriage on Saturday during a church conference — and reminded followers watching around the world that children...
View ArticleHow one fateful night took a disabled 65-year-old cancer survivor from open...
When Tim Truitt arrived at the northwest Denver bar where he sings every Monday on open mic night, he had no inkling he was triggering a sequence of events that would prove life-changing. But he was...
View ArticleTrump, unlikely religious favorite, hails Christian values
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s evolution from twice-divorced casino owner viewed warily by Christian conservatives to evangelical favorite defending religious liberty was on full display Friday...
View ArticleAlabama state official defends Roy Moore, citing Joseph and Mary: “They...
An Alabama state official on Thursday dismissed a Washington Post report alleging that GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore had initiated a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old girl decades ago, saying there...
View ArticleAfter Sutherland Springs, a prayer for our country churches
The massacre of innocents at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Tex., hurts on so many levels it feels like a curse. The mass shooting that killed 26 and injured 20 should stand as an...
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She led Trump to Christ: The rise of the televangelist who advises the White...
By Julia Duin, The Washington Post It was an early afternoon in late July, and Paula White was holding court before an audience of about 25 Southern Baptist ministers in an ornate diplomatic reception...
View ArticleAnti-gay supporters rally for Moore, worrying LGBT community
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A smiling Roy Moore stood shoulder to shoulder with his fiercest religious allies. Flanked by a huge sign for Moore’s Senate campaign, one supporter railed against the “LGBT mafia”...
View ArticleAbortion foes came out by the thousands to Colorado’s Capitol this weekend
Young boys and girls rolled down the grassy slope on the west side of the Capitol Saturday afternoon as roughly 3,000 abortion foes from across Colorado came together to march around Civic Center park...
View ArticlePope has tough words for indigenous, Chile during Mass
By Nicole Winfield and Patricia Luna, The Associated Press TEMUCO, Chile — Pope Francis took the Chilean state and the country’s largest indigenous group to task Wednesday over their failure to forge a...
View ArticlePope to indigenous: Amazon is “heart of the church”
PUERTO MALDONADO, Peru — From deep in the scorching Amazon rainforest, Pope Francis demanded Friday that corporations stop their relentless extraction of timber, gas and gold from God’s “holy ground,”...
View ArticleThe cross section of Christian and gay: LGBTQ Christians say Denver is...
People — a mix of young folks with orange hair to those who have gone gray — congregated in the Denver Convention Center to chat. They just wrapped breakout sessions in which groups loudly discussed...
View ArticleTexas televangelist suggests alternate flu shot: “Inoculate yourself with the...
More than 37 children across the country have died during a nasty flu outbreak that is already one of the worst on record, even though the season typically peaks in February. But Texas televangelist...
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Florida school shooting massacre victims torn from community fabric
Two of the victims were coaches. One was a student who played trombone in the school band. Another proudly wore his ROTC uniform. Still another loved soccer. And most were so very young. The gunman who...
View ArticleReligious sisterhood isn’t disappearing, it’s transforming
Religious sisterhood is in a state of transition. Fewer women take religious vows, leaving some orders of nuns struggling to push forward their missions of education, health and social justice. But as...
View ArticleBilly Graham funeral: Evangelist’s children carry on crusade
By Tom Foreman Jr. and Jonathan Drew, The Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Rev. Billy Graham’s children remembered “America’s Pastor” on Friday as a man devoted to spreading the Gospel, living...
View ArticleFrancis at 5: Paradigm shift in mercy, migrants and marriage
VATICAN CITY — Whenever Pope Francis visits prisons, during his whirlwind trips to the world’s peripheries or at a nearby jailhouse in Rome, he always tells inmates that he, too, could have ended up...
View ArticleMaundy Thursday reminds us to love one another, even in a world of strife
About the time this newspaper hits my driveway, I will be standing outside St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Lakewood accepting a palm frond to carry into our sanctuary. In the Christian faith, Holy Week...
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