Preston Hunter, founder of ComicBookReligion.com, has analyzed dozens of comic book characters and lists their religious affiliations there as well as on Adherents.com, which he also founded. He says Batman may be a lapsed Roman Catholic or disaffected Episcopalian. The Thing from The Fantastic Four is Jewish, a rare instance of a character’s faith being discussed openly in […]

Selected data from Freedom House’s  annual survey of political rights and civil liberties.

A Virginia-based organization that promotes international health and wholeness from a Christian perspective.

B.J. Oropeza is a professor of biblical studies at the Azusa Pacific University School of Theology in Asuza, Calif., and an expert in religion and popular culture. Oropeza is the author of The Gospel According to Superheroes: Religion and Popular Culture.

The Baptist Standard is the Baptist General Convention of Texas’s news outlet. Marv Knox is editor and publisher.

A for-profit Salem Web Network site for evangelical Christians that focuses on “faith, family, fun and community” news.

Updates from the United Pentecostal Church International