Curated

Like the storm-cellar vigils of a childhood in West Texas, Pentecost is wild and unpredictable, always hard and most always scary. We don’t know what might happen, but we know we’ll be changed.

Removing religious liberty protections in the name of religious freedom taints the cause. Honoring freedom for faith-based providers, while taking it away from people receiving services, is wrong.

Israeli leaders have long welcomed evangelical support. But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has taken this support to a new level. Netanyahu presents himself as the protector of Christian holy sites and a leader in the fight against Islamic extremism. In turn, Christian Zionists have given strong support for Netanyahu’s religious-nationalist and aggressive agendas.

Most Protestant churchgoers believe that giving 10 percent of their income is a biblical requirement they should follow but they define the practice of tithing in a variety of ways, a new survey shows.

Barber’s oration on militarism used the word “moral” a couple hundred times to explain the past and present but didn’t use the words capitalism, socialism, class or working class once. How we can explain economic injustice, environmental destruction, white supremacy and the rest without these concepts makes Barber’s and the PPC’s actual politics of change more than a little cloudy.

The highest-ranking elder of northwest suburban Willow Creek Community Church told the congregation Wednesday that elders owe apologies to women who made allegations of misconduct against church founder Bill Hybels.

Parenting is a profound responsibility, not to mention a perilous duty, and communities of faith need to learn how to recognize, support and enrich this calling, without stigmatizing those who don’t have children, or traumatizing those who have lost children, or reifying inherited gender roles.

What if every victim of abuse, every abandoned child, every lonely senior, every intellectually and physically disabled person, every single parent, every gay and transgender person, every prisoner, every homeless person and every billionaire were actually the image of God in our midst? How should we then live?

The bishops of the United Methodist Church have endorsed a plan that would allow individual pastors and regional bodies to make their own decisions on whether to perform same-sex weddings and ordain LGBT people as clergy.

There will be no Night of Joy event at Walt Disney World in 2018, and there are no plans for the series of Christian-music concerts to return to the resort in the future, a Disney World spokeswoman has confirmed.