The Pope has already stood by John Paul II’s rejection of female priesthood. So if the study group finds that in the early church the office of deacon was intended as the prelude to priesthood, then what?
Are clergy underpaid? New study reveals rising wages, shorter hours and a diminishing wage gap
Non-Catholic clergy have experienced significant increases in income even as their work weeks declined by more than 15 percent in recent decades, according to a major new study of clergy compensation.
Newspapers were once full of Bible quotes — and a local professor’s tool lets us learn from them
Lincoln Mullen, a George Mason University professor, has put the Bible and 11 million pages of old newspapers into a computer and mashed the two together.
Baptist pastor inspires protests against Zimbabwe’s authoritarian leader
A Baptist preacher has become the unlikely leader of a social media movement that’s inspired Zimbabweans to protest against their authoritarian ruler and the collapsed economy.
Birmingham 16th Street Baptist Church bomber denied parole
Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr. was convicted in 2001 of murdering Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, all 14, and Denise McNair, 11, and sentenced to life in prison.
Governing God’s house: How 500 churches keep from collapsing
First ECFA survey of church governance trends reveals which boards are most effective.
Americans prefer to talk about politics rather than God
Politics trumps God for most Americans when it comes to conversations with their friends.
Pope Francis institutes commission to study female deacons
Pope Francis has created a commission to study the possibility of allowing women to serve as deacons in the Catholic church.
So you’re thinking of voting for a pro-choice candidate …
Knowing many of my pro-life friends feel torn between an unpopular but highly qualified pro-choice candidate in Hillary Clinton and an incompetent narcissist who poses a unique threat to American democracy in Donald Trump, I’d like to make a proposal.