Chris Arnade studied the most destitute and seemingly hopeless Americans–street people, addicts, prostitutes, the wretchedly poor, the “underclass,” people often referred to as the “dregs of society”–searching for the shreds of human dignity that they still have by getting to…
20 changes the new Mormon president has made to appeal to Millennials and Generation Z
“When will the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints start changing so that it stops alienating people in their 20s and 30s?”
What happened after my mostly white church put up a Black Lives Matter sign
We have received angry letters from local citizens (including parishioners from a sister church) and anonymous phone calls, and had an ALM sign put up after someone stole our BLM sign.
Charitable giving by individual Americans drops in 2018
Charitable giving by individual Americans in 2018 suffered its biggest drop since the Great Recession of 2008-09, in part because of Republican-backed changes in tax policy, according to the latest comprehensive report on Americans’ giving patterns.
The Hollowness of the Southern Baptists’ New Racism and Sexual Abuse Amendments
If they were to fully and meaningfully implement this policy, I doubt that the Convention would be left with any churches as members, for they all remain complicit with racist and sexist structures that rob many of us of our…
Cuts at Liberty Hit Divinity
A dozen faculty members at Liberty University’s Rawlings School of Divinity learned at the end of May they would not have their contracts renewed, representing significant cuts to the on-the-ground instructional work force of the Christian university in Lynchburg, Va.
‘Harry Potter meets Jesus’ sermon series brings new muggles to Philly church
The large banner on the lawn of Leverington Church in Roxborough has been raising eyebrows as if it were a Wingardium Leviosa spell.
This historic church will be reborn as housing for seniors
For more than 150 years, members of Wilmington’s Episcopal community were baptized, married and eulogized at the imposing Cathedral Church of St. John in Brandywine Village.
New documentary on Charleston church shooting explores idea of forgiveness
Monday marks four years since nine members of a black church were shot to death by a white supremacist in Charleston, S.C., setting off a national debate about gun violence.