It may now seem surprising to many United Methodists, and even more Baptists, that for most of our histories in the United States, all Methodists and Baptists were regularly designated as evangelical denominations. The most important reason is that both...
It’s the Spirit that turns skills into gifts. Spiritual gifts can be perpetual or fluid, required at the moment or for the long haul. Gifts come and go. It’s the Spirit that remains.
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Churchgoers, preachers and law enforcement officers from across Southern California gathered for a church security seminar in Huntington Beach hosted by the California Rifle & Pistol Association, which delivered a warning: Faith alone will not protect you in a house of God.
When you find yourself in a hole, the first thing you do is stop digging. And I know, without a shadow of a doubt, that the dominant narrative in American political culture is not only shortsighted but also complicit with Israel’s brutal occupation of Palestine’s population.
Under pressure from the #MeToo movement, trustees of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, have removed a president long praised for delivering the denomination from feminism. During a 13-hour called meeting precipitated by his past comments on women, divorce and domestic violence, trustees bestowed 75-year-old Paige Patterson the honorary title of president emeritus with compensation.
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Gregory Stevens resigns after tweets about Palo Alto, slamming tech industry greed and empty social justice promises.
Fuller is acquiring downtown land in the eastern San Gabriel Valley city of Pomona where it will build a more accessible campus with lower surrounding housing costs, acting provost Mari Clements said Tuesday.
Southern religious institutions would lead a wave of political activism that helped keep white nationalism alive inside an increasingly unfriendly national climate. No one played as much of a role in turning the South red as the leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention.
The Southern Baptist Convention has cut ties with the District of Columbia Baptist Convention over disagreement about whether such organizations should include congregations with conflicting views on homosexuality.
Alvin Reid, an evangelism professor at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary for nearly a quarter century, has stepped down for mysterious reasons.
