Top-notch preaching most attracts people looking for a new place to pray. That’s the conclusion of a new Pew Research Center study which asked 5,000 people about their search for a new church or other house of worship.
Cultivating ministers
Many schools are partnering with congregations to address issues of food and justice. But Princeton may be the first to create a theological curriculum in the context of a farm with the aim of shaping students for ministry.
It’s just church
What if, instead of using the tired mathematics of budgets, buildings, and pew-butts to determine whether or not the Church is effective, we started judging the efficaciousness of a body of people charged with bringing heaven to earth?
The obsession with biblical literalism
A Christian theme park in Kentucky brings the ancient to life through a life-sized reconstruction of Noah’s Ark—but not without dipping into fiction.
Why Kenya’s houses of worship are getting a yellow makeover
Muslim and Christian congregations are coming together to paint their sacred sites the color of joy.
Chaplains begin treating veterans for newly designated ‘moral injury’
Moral injury is not classified as a mental disorder such as PTSD. It can develop when a veteran experiences or witnesses acts during war that violate deeply held moral beliefs.
In borrowed churches and at shelters, ministers bring message of hope and unity to churchgoers displaced by La. flood
Though church buildings are shattered and members are scattered, for Baton Rouge ministers Sunday was a time to recognize that with the help of God and each other, those who lost everything in the flood will get through it.
Protecting the unique legal status of churches
Maintaining special legal status depends on understanding and protecting the distinct role churches play and the historical context for that role.
After athletics scandal, Ken Starr leaves Baylor faculty
Baylor University and former president Ken Starr released a joint statement saying he was leaving his job on the faculty of Baylor’s law school, effective immediately.
Rush Limbaugh: ‘Immorality on a large scale will ultimately implode’
The talk-radio host’s unintentionally dissonant diagnosis of what threatens America.
American Bible Society looks back, ahead
As the American Bible Society marks its 200th anniversary, and after a series of leadership changes and a recent move to Philadelphia, its leaders are looking to the nation’s past in planning for the future.
Come hell or high water: How the melodrama of disaster leaves us vulnerable
When an event like flooding in Louisiana takes place, media coverage shifts to a sober note. But images of destruction and heroic rescuers suggest another, disconcerting dimension to catastrophe: disaster is a form of entertainment.