As we prepare for the 40th anniversary of People Power, we are called to “not give up on one another and our country ...

On Sunday, the Gospel reading is the Beatitudes, one of the most loved and well-known passages of the New Testament. This ...

The "poor in spirit," to which Jesus refers in the Sermon on the Mount, are the humble people who live with an awareness of ...

Is America still what President Ronald Reagan described as the “shining city on the hill?” He wasn’t the first to speak that ...

I know that God loves me – no exceptions. I also want God to like me, to appreciate who I am and approve of what I do. This is where the Beatitudes come in. God not only approves anyone who follows ...

When Texas approved a new reading curriculum that features Bible stories in 2024, education Commissioner Mike Morath told ...

A proposal before the Texas State Board of Education not only threatens religious freedoms, it violates parents' ...

To be gentle is often equated with being passive, fragile, or easily overlooked - a liability rather than a virtue. But the ...

We are opening this special section with an excerpt of a sermon that Rev. Willie Bodrick II, senior pastor of Twelfth Baptist Church in Roxbury, delivered on Sunday, Jan. 11. During the Civil Rights ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

NEW YORK, NY (January 7, 2026) – The National Institutes of Health has awarded the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai an $8.5 million renewal grant to continue groundbreaking work aimed at ...

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz pushed back against the ever-growing fraud allegations levied against him in the disastrous aftermath of a viral video in which an independent journalist cracked open a crucial ...