Two Virginia pastors were honored Feb. 26 for their outstanding leadership during the opening day of ChurchWorks, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s annual conference for Christian educators meeting at Trinity Baptist Church in San Antonio, Texas. ChurchWorks is three-day event for all practitioners of education and spiritual formation in the congregational setting.
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A legacy of peacemaking and inclusion
The 150-year-old Peace Cathedral in the Republic of Georgia has claimed the mantle of Christian peacemaking, investing in a vision of inclusive and merciful community. Established as First Baptist Church of Tbilisi, it serves as the mother church of the Evangelical Baptist Church of Georgia, an Alliance of Baptists’ Active Hope Partner.
Crowds line up to bid Graham farewell at U.S. Capitol
They stood patiently in line, young and old, with memories and stories, to pay their respects to an evangelist who they say changed their lives or the lives of their loved ones.
Capitol Police arrest scores of Catholic nuns and leaders calling for immigration reform
Dozens of Catholic group and faith leaders were arrested on Capitol Hill Tuesday, after calling on lawmakers to support bipartisan immigration legislation that makes permanent protections available to Dreamers protected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem reopens after city suspends tax plans
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said there would be negotiations to try to resolve the dispute, prompting the city’s mayor to suspend changes.
Supreme Court declines to take DACA case, leaving it in place for now
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday handed the Trump administration a setback over the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which shields hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation.
Confidential ICE handbook lays out paths for investigators to avoid constitutional challenges
The handbook lays out ICE’s methods, said immigration lawyers and experts, stoking fears that ICE is willing to dismiss legal protections in the face of a single-minded drive to detain suspects.
Prayer and a packing pastor: Sutherland Springs’s response to the Florida mass shooting
As fresh mass shootings such as the one at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., which killed 17, reopen debates about gun control, members of this Southern Baptist congregation are relying on what they hope is added safety plus ongoing prayer as they move forward.
Jerusalem Christians close Church of Holy Sepulchre to protest municipal authorties’ drive to collect taxes
Leaders of Jerusalem’s churches closed the doors of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Sunday in a show of united protest in response to moves by municipal authorities in Jerusalem to begin collecting tens of millions of dollars in taxes from churches, as well as proposed legislation to confiscate church-owned land.
TV Review: ‘Living Biblically’ on CBS
Believe it or not, there is something quite charming about the sitcom. It centers Christianity in a way that is never examined, but manages to do so in a way that feels rooted in a particular journey. It’s refreshing to…
His church keeps his picture in a pew and prays he won’t be deported
His red Nissan is in the church parking lot. His picture is on the pew where he loves to sit. But Gilles Bikindou wasn’t at Greenwood Forest Baptist Church in Cary, North Carolina, last Sunday. Or the Sunday before that. Or the Sunday before that. Or any of the Sundays since immigration authorities arrested him last month. His advocates fear Bikindou, 58, could be deported as soon as Friday.
Billy Graham, the great uniter, leaves behind a divided Evangelicalism
The preacher, dead at 99, advised presidents, mentored clergy, and influenced millions of people. Will his legacy of non-partisan outreach continue?