600+ Attend Conference to Counter Christian Zionism

More than 600 people attended “ChristattheCheckpoint,” a conference on Christian Zionism, at Bethlehem Bible College in early March. Conference organizer and Baptist minister Alex Awad said the participants came from more than 20 different countries. Awad...

Governors Urged to Reject For-Profit’s Prison Plan

Nonprofit and faith-based organizations have asked governors to avoid working with one of the largest prison corporations due to clauses the for-profit company is demanding. A coalition of some two dozen nonprofit organizations sent aletter to state governors on March...

Documents Reveal Plan to Cast Doubt on Climate Change

A prominent climatologist has confessed to releasing internal documents from the Heartland Institute, a conservative lobbying organization that denies a link between carbon emissions and climate change. Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute for Studies in...

Churches Warned to Back Off of Payday Lenders

Several Missouri churches received a letter in January from a Texas law firm warning that the churches might be jeopardizing their nonprofit status. The letter from Grapevine, Texas-based Anthony & Middlebrook said, “…a church or religious organization...