By Bob Allen While news media have long moved on to other stories like the pro-democracy Arab Spring and U.S. presidential election, the Jan. 12, 2010, earthquake remains a present reality in Haiti, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship field workers reported on…
OPINION: Warning, this sermon may be X-rated
Mega-church preacher Ed Young Jr. is challenging married couples in his church and beyond to conduct a “sexperiment” — to have sex for seven straight days as a way to improve their marriage. Videos promoting Sexperiment: 7 Days to Lasting…
OPINION: Warning, this sermon may be X-rated
Mega-church preacher Ed Young Jr. is challenging married couples in his church and beyond to conduct a “sexperiment” — to have sex for seven straight days as a way to improve their marriage. Videos promoting Sexperiment: 7 Days to Lasting…
Is Rick Santorum a Catholic or an evangelical? Yes.
NEW YORK (RNS) — Just days after Rick Santorum surged to a virtual tie for first in the Iowa caucuses, conservative activists at an invitation-only summit along the South Carolina coast were buzzing about the former Pennsylvania senator’s sudden and…
Supreme Court sides with churches in employment fights
WASHINGTON (RNS) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 11 unanimously threw its support behind a church school that fired a teacher, using a widely watched church-state case to bolster a legal doctrine that exempts religious institutions from some civil…
Beloved hymns carried King through troubled times
NEW YORK (RNS) — At 87, C.T. Vivian can still recall the moment, decades after the height of the civil rights movement. As he stood to conclude a meeting in his Atlanta home, Martin Luther King Jr. joined his activist…
Virginia judge rules against breakaway Episcopal parishes
NEW YORK (RNS) — Seven congregations that broke with the Episcopal Church in 2006 over its liberal policies on homosexuality are not entitled to keep parish property estimated to be worth millions, a Virginia judge ruled on Jan. 10. The…
Traveling repairmen help rebuild Baptist churches
MEMPHIS, N.Y. (RNS) — Brent Howard left his job as a home remodeler in Ohio in 2007, moved his young family into a trailer and began traveling to wherever he was needed. Over the past 4 1/2 years, he has…
Beloved hymns carried King through troubled times
NEW YORK (RNS) — At 87, C.T. Vivian can still recall the moment, decades after the height of the civil rights movement. As he stood to conclude a meeting in his Atlanta home, Martin Luther King Jr. joined his activist…
Former congressman named to Baylor chair
By Lori Fogleman Former U.S. Congressman Chet Edwards has been appointed the W.R. Poage Distinguished Chair for Public Service at Baylor University. Edwards, who represented parts of central and north Texas in Congress from 1990 to 2011, will serve the…
Supreme Court upholds ‘ministerial exception’ to employment discrimination laws
By Bob Allen A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruled Jan. 11 that churches can fire their ministers for reasons that for other employers would be job discrimination. The decision marks the first time the high court has recognized a “ministerial…
Youth minister arrested
By Bob Allen A Louisiana man was arrested Jan.11 after police reportedly traced the IP address of a computer used to solicit minors for sexual purposes to his workplace at a Baptist church. Mitchell J. Rousse, 33, of Patterson, La.,…