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My undelivered stand-up routine for those not likely to come back to church

I’m surprised to be at the Comedy Cellar because — and I know how this sounds — I’m a minister. Saying that you’re a minister shuts down conversations with barbers, waitresses and the person sitting next to you on the plane. That last one is helpful.

What the Church needs is a new reformation

If Christianity is to be a force for good in the world by helping to heal our deep psychic, personal brokenness, to restore estranged relationships often marked by betrayal and contempt, to transform us into more loving, compassionate persons who care for others, then Western Christianity, and American Christianity in particular, must undergo a new reformation.

Campolo says ‘Red Letter Revival’ seeks to convert evangelicals to social activism

A group of Christians often labeled as “progressive evangelicals” will hold a revival — in Lynchburg, Va., a center of conservative Christianity — designed to reconnect that old-time religion with concern and activism for social justice.

Art and faith converge at a hybrid church/community arts center

Art shapes faith and faith shapes art at Convergence, a combination church and arts center that makes space for the creative exploration that artists crave and the church needs.

50 years after Martin Luther King’s death, a ‘new King’ fights for justice

William Barber, a pastor and political leader in North Carolina, believes mere remembrance is not enough.

Millennials hit the exits when church culture conflicts with gospel

It isn’t gimmicks but honesty that’s needed to heal the growing rift between young people and the church.

Affidavit alleges unwanted sexual encounter with former judge who led SBC to the right

The attorney representing a man suing former Southern Baptist Convention leader Paul Pressler for alleged sexual abuse has filed the first of what he says will be a series of affidavits corroborating his client’s claims.

Palm branches and protest signs

For those who have ears to hear, God is speaking — not in the wind, with an earthquake, or by fire, not in the halls of power, either, but through the voices of school children, the survivors, whose mourning has turned to marching.

SBC spokesman promises ‘due diligence’ regarding Frank Page’s unidentified ‘indiscretion’

Southern Baptist Convention leaders have no reason to believe the “personal failing” behind last week’s resignation of the denomination’s top executive involved anything illegal but will investigate further, according to a spokesman.

The costs of speaking truth to power

I’ve been pondering the cost of being a leader who has the courage and tenacity to tell the truth. We can all agree that we need leaders who do, but how exactly do we sell the vocation of truth-telling when our own human story makes it pretty likely that if you tell a hard truth long enough you will lose your life?

The little-known theology behind white evangelical support of Donald Trump

Christian virtues like love, mercy and forgiveness apply to individuals, not government, according to Two Kingdoms theology deployed by evangelicals like Dallas pastor Robert Jeffress.

The Americanization of an ancient faith

The 2,000-year-old Coptic Church is trying something new: spreading its message across the United States and the rest of the world.

The wicked are punished — or not

What Ryan Burge sees in America’s megachurches

We are a nation of immigrants

As worldwide deaths mount, Musk insists DOGE cuts didn’t kill anyone