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  ‘I Can Only Imagine’ reveals truth of MercyMe ballad

  Everyone needs a Mrs. Fincher in their lives, actress Priscilla Shirer said of her character who stirs up the gift in MercyMe lead singer Bart Millard in the upcoming movie I Can Only Imagine.

  03/06/2018 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

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  Views of God make Republicans more liberal and Democrats more conservative

  Republicans who perceive God as highly engaged with humanity are like Democrats when it comes to social and economic justice issues, and Democrats who see God as a strict judge are like Republicans on retributive justice issues, according to a Baylor University study.

  02/23/2018 - By Terry Goodrich / Baylor University

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  Sexual assault less likely, gender discrimination more likely on Christian campuses

  Students at faith-based colleges and universities are somewhat less likely to experience sexual assault but more likely to experience gender-based discrimination than their peers on secular private or public campuses, new research indicated.

  02/06/2018 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Easily accessible porn prevalent among students

  Churches, parents and Christian colleges face the challenge of instilling moral values in a generation of students who have grown up in a “digital Babylon” of easily accessible pornography, the president of a Christian research firm said.

  02/05/2018 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Gen Z: Rising generation twice as likely to be atheists

  Churches that shaped their youth ministry programs to appeal to Millennials may need to go back to the drawing board to reach Generation Z, new research showed.

  02/05/2018 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Adoption and foster care fairly common in churches, study says

  About four in 10 Protestant churchgoers say their congregation has been involved with adoption or foster care in the past year, according to LifeWay Research.

  01/26/2018 - By Bob Smietana / LifeWay Research

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  Internet use may prompt religious ‘tinkering’

  Internet use may decrease the likelihood of a person affiliating with a religious tradition or believing only one religion is true, a Baylor University study reveals.

  01/22/2018 - By Terry Goodrich / Baylor University

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  Efforts to remove stigma of mental illness still lacking, Baylor study shows

  Belief that mental illness is biological has increased among both health experts and the public in recent years. But campaigns to treat it as a disease and remove stigma may be lacking, a Baylor University study discovered.

  01/16/2018 - By Terry Goodrich / Baylor University

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  Most churches offer Wi-Fi but skip Twitter, study says

  Seven in 10 Protestant churches provide Wi-Fi for both guests and staff, according to a survey of Protestant senior pastors by LifeWay Research. Most also have a website and a Facebook page. But few have ventured on Twitter.

  01/12/2018 - By Ken Camp

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  Analysis: Trump, Sutherland Springs and wedding cake top 2017 news

  President Trump’s born-again-like embrace of evangelical politics was the biggest religion story of the year. But a shooting at a Texas church, a wedding cake a Christian baker refused to make and the status of Jerusalem also grabbed headlines.

  12/26/2017 - By Jerome Socolovsky / Religion News Service

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  ‘Trumpvangelicals’ top religion journalists’ poll

  For the second year in a row, President Trump and his conservative evangelical supporters topped the list of the 10 most important religion news stories of the year as compiled by the country’s largest organization of religion journalists.

  12/26/2017 - By Kimberly Winston / Religion News Service

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  Female evangelicals urge church to speak out about violence against women

  More than 140 evangelical Christian women from across the political and theological spectrums have signed onto a statement calling churches to end the silence around violence against women and the church’s participation in it.

  12/22/2017 - By Emily McFarlan Miller / Religion News Service