Evangelist Ravi Zacharias recalled young Christian author and speaker Nabeel Qureshi as "not only a man of conviction" but "a man of passion."

Social discontent has grown alongside the major stock indices. A panel of Christian economists argue for an expanded view of how to measure the economy, one that can take into account needs for...

United Methodism in U.S. won't meaningfully exist in 10 years, but Methodism in Africa will thrive, writes IRD President Mark Tooley.

Welcome banners proclaiming messages of indiscriminate affirmation paired with labyrinths don’t appear to slow ongoing Episcopal Church decline trend.

In Defense of Christians organized a congressional briefing on April 16 to call attention to widespread violence against Christians in Nigeria.

Religious freedom is a fundamental human right "because it protects a fundamental human good,” the good of seeking the ultimate truth and living one’s life in accordance with it.

The elevation of nobodies into somebodies is a unique gift of Christianity to the world.

Among the reasons for traditional Methodists to be angry at what has taken place at General Conference is the overturning of doctrine central to Methodist social witness.

Anglican congregations in North America report a significant rebound in attendance following a return to regular worship services post-COVID.

In response to recent controversies, a group of United Methodist lay leaders in the Philippines have recently declared their support for traditional biblical values on the definition of marriage....

United Methodist disaffiliation can seem daunting. But there are many encouraging stories of God blessing those who have already made it out.

Advocacy group International Christian Concern has made available to the public its report on the worst persecutors of the church in the year 2023.

Beth Ann Cook is Pastor at Logansport First United Methodist Church and president of the Indiana Confessing Movement. She has...

There will always be “sparkle creeds” trying to displace more traditional creeds.

Six newly elected ELCA women bishops double down on the heterodox theology and political activism that have been so destructive for Mainline Protestants.

Mark Tooley of the Institute on Religion and Democracy Methodist Split's Messy Creativity The Institute on Religion and Democracy

United Methodism's General Conference is enacting a sexual revolution, writes Institute on Religion & Democracy President Mark Tooley.

The present United Methodist schism had been developing for decades, but barriers to separation were removed only recently.

How United Methodist centrists have transformed the denomination by siding with the far left against theological traditionalists.

Bishop Connie Shelton heavy-handedly kills a congregation, showing the dangers of remaining affiliated with the United Methodist Church.

IRD hosted a robust conversation at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on responding to the “Benedict Option”. Following the decline of nominal Chri...

The first session of the Allegheny West Conference shows how Global Methodist Annual Conferences are very different from those in the UMC.

Seminary leader Jerry Kulah of Liberia responds to a caucus official who unsuccessfully pushed General Conference to liberalize Methodist sexuality teaching

A new Presbyterian and Reformed conference offers encouraging visions in public theology that attend to flourishing and the common good.

“We thank God for the just acquittal of this precious sister in the Lord. Please pray for her and her family, and all of the Christians and other religious minorities in Pakistan, that they will be...

Disaffiliation from the United Methodist Church is our best option, write the leaders of the independent Africa UMC Initiative.

These events aim to equip Christians to advance a pro-life witness, promote human dignity, and pray for an end to abortion.

Traditionalist African delegates to the United Methodist General Conference lament the denomination's changed definition of marriage.

Tim Keller is known for his winsome, urbane style in conveying orthodox Christianity. To New Yorkers, he was a surprise, undermining stereotypes of evangelicals.

Mainline Protestant churches played a significant role in legitimizing abortion even before Roe effectively struck down state abortion restrictions.

“March for Life amplifies how many Christian churches are increasingly united in promoting a culture of life,” says IRD President Mark Tooley.

The danger of Bishop Mariann Budde's selective outrage is in exposing herself as another partisan instead of acting like a senior shepherd.

Liberal United Methodists claim that “more than two-thirds” of U.S. delegates support redefining marriage. On the contrary, reliable survey data shows that American United Methodists are closely...

But other churches can learn lessons from the NCC’s demise: Be firm on doctrine and careful on political activism.

Their action resembles a Third World dictatorship that, having called an election, realizes the results will not be favorable, and cancels the voting.

The Lord has breathed new life into old bones many times before. Perhaps you’ll pass a church in the coming days and feel a tug to stop and pray.

Loyalties to denominations that once persisted across generations are suddenly ending, writes IRD President Mark Tooley.

This is no longer just a conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh territory. It ultimately boils down to the existence of the remaining Christians in the Caucasus and Middle...

The United Methodist Church came to the breaking point after false promises of liberal tolerance. Others must learn from the UMC's mistakes.

The evidence points to an astute leader nurturing religious freedom in a new nation, not rejecting his Savior.

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How can we best argue from the perspective of religious truth in a postmodern society that no longer believes in objectivity?

In key vote on legislative priorities, delegates prefer Traditional Plan backed by global evangelicals over liberal One Church Plan backed by most bishops.

Setting the record straight about how New Town UMC was unfairly singled out for mistreatment by the Virginia Conference.

Every United Methodist in Iowa needs to know about this soon-to-expire opportunity to protect their congregations' futures.

United Methodists uphold their denomination’s rules on sexual ethics, rejecting plans that would permit same-sex marriage.

Liberal United Methodists embracing the spirituality of other religions demonstrates the denomination's lack of boundaries.

Christianity Today's Timothy Dalrymple identifies two cohorts among U.S. evangelicals, which Derryck Green says disparages the assumed motivations of the group with which he disagrees.

Presbyterian & Reformed Public Theology speakers offer encouraging visions in public theology that attend to flourishing and the common good.

Dominion author Tom Holland argues progressive historiography fails to consider that our moral categories themselves are the result of Christian influence.

Some progressive Christians argue abortion is morally wrong, but overturning Roe v. Wade could hypothetically harm women. If progressive Christians are against overturning Roe, then what abortion...

Four divestment or investment screening resolutions were rejected by committees and did not make it to the conference floor.

United Methodism in U.S. won't meaningfully exist in 10 years, but Methodism in Africa will thrive, writes IRD President Mark Tooley.

Chinese-American caucus within the United Methodist Church endorses traditional biblical values, repudiates "resistance" movement.

Several liberal United Methodist Church conferences officially begin to explore possibility of splitting from the UMC to form a new liberal denomination.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 18 protects freedom to choose one’s religion, but “there are over twenty countries ... in the world, in Africa, the Middle East and Asia which...

Denominations whose officials tout leftwing politics have continuously lost members for 55 years. I don’t think the intemperate politics are...

United Methodist leaders elected new bishops this week to steer America’s second-largest Protestant denomination in a liberal direction.

United Methodism as a sprawling U.S. 1960s bureaucracy is dying. But Methodism as a movement, unchained from that expiring behemoth, can now anticipate some of its best days.

Even orthodox United Methodist bishops have become complicit in the unraveling of the Discipline as the denomination's supposed covenant.

Self-described centrist Pastor Adam Hamilton thinks the United Methodist Church can reach more people if it remains united.

Now top Southern United Methodist officials trample church rules, biblical morality as blatantly as had been seen in radicalized regions.

United Methodist megachurch pastor Talbot Davis challenges the biblical sloppiness of frequent rhetoric about everyone being a child of God.

Mark Tooley | United Methodist disaffiliations accelerate as end-of-year deadline approaches

Setting the record straight on misunderstandings about the UMC split, and on why progressive United Methodists cannot have it both ways.