Ravi Zacharias was best known for the apologetics ministry that bears his name, but he spent his 46-year career licensed as a national evangelist with the Christian and Missionary Alliance (CMA). The denomination has now revoked the ordination of its…
Disinformation Fuels A White Evangelical Movement. It Led 1 Virginia Pastor To Quit
Jared Stacy is still processing his decision to leave Spotswood Baptist Church in Fredericksburg, Va., last year. Until November, he was ministering to young parishioners in their 20s and 30s.
Southern Baptists divided over politics, race, LGBTQ policy
Divisions over race, politics, gender and LGBTQ issues are roiling America’s largest Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, ahead of a meeting of its executive committee next week.
Rush Limbaugh, who shaped conservative Christian politics on the radio, has died
Rush Limbaugh, the bombastic and popular radio host who shaped conservative politics for decades, has died.
Dallas faith groups help shelter homeless Texans during deep freeze
Dallas churches and other faith groups have teamed up to help open an emergency warming center for the homeless at the city’s Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center.
SBU Trustees Reverse Some Tenure/Promotion Denials
After nearly two weeks of controversy following an unusual move to deny tenure or promotion to five faculty members, the Board of Trustees for Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, Missouri, reversed some of those decisions in a meeting held virtually Tuesday (Feb….
U.S. Supreme Court sides with Alabama death row inmate, declines to lift stay of execution over state’s refusal to allow clergy in chamber
A stay of execution issued by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will remain in place after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a petition to overturn it filed by the state of Alabama. The appeals court halted the execution of Willie…
Survey: Black Americans attend church and pray more often
Black Americans attend church more regularly than Americans overall, and pray more often. Most attend churches that are predominantly Black, yet many would like those congregations to become racially diverse. There is broad respect for Black churches’ historical role in…
How Christian Bookstores Survived 2020
A new item at Christian bookstores in 2020 shot straight to the top of the sales charts: face masks with faith messages.
Celebrating Ash Wednesday in a pandemic? There’s an app for that
There are filters that blur “imperfections” in photos and filters that turn lawyers into cats on Zoom.
From ‘Lent-in-a-box’ to ‘ash n dash’
When Palm Sunday arrived in 2020, the coronavirus pandemic had only just begun, and Tom Ancona’s church, Holy Martyrs, was entirely shut down. There was no way to bless and distribute palm branches to congregants.
No execution: Courts side with inmate wanting pastor present
An Alabama inmate won a reprieve from a planned lethal injection after the U.S. Supreme Court said the state must allow his personal pastor in the death chamber.