Televised worship services may seem a bit old fashioned in the age of live streaming webcasts. Is it worth the trouble? It’s a question a lot of congregations are asking and one that a lot of experts are answering in the affirmative.
A North Carolina man accused of killing two relatives by crashing his car into a restaurant after Sunday church recently struggled with severe mental illness, his pastor said at a news conference Monday morning. Austin Rammell, pastor of Venture Church…
Former President Jimmy Carter took a gentle poke at President Donald Trump at the start of a commencement address to graduates of Liberty University in Virginia.
While AA presents itself to the public as a mere program of recovery from alcoholism, it’s actually best thought of as a particular moral community, offering a comprehensive conception of how one ought to live one’s life.
What do you do with a skeptic who’s not so sure of the concept of God but believes the Way of Jesus should change the world? You make a deacon of him, of course! And when he dies, what do you say? How honest can you be?
A Texas pastor is asking the Southern Baptist Convention to reject various forms of “social justice” philosophy, which he says are leading the denomination’s churches, schools and institutions away from the Bible on issues like abortion, homosexuality and the distribution of wealth.
A new research project found that half of Protestant churchgoers said they tithe to Christian ministries rather than churches. A third said their giving may be directed to individuals in need. And 18 percent said they tithe to secular charities,
Across the country, churches, synagogues and mosques have become increasingly conscious of their moral obligation to care for the environment. Many are stepping up their environmental activism by investing in renewable energy and particularly solar panels. But the speed with which they take on solar panels has much to do with economics.
Staff changes, congregational news and more from across the nation.
It’s shameful, not only because they use their theology to make the moving of the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem a matter of “eternal” significance, but also because they refuse to hold the Netanyahu government accountable for Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, some of whom are themselves evangelical Christians.
