A Houston megachurch has been in the news due to member concerns about the ways its bylaws were amended and governance was effectively removed from the congregation and entrusted to a small group handpicked by the senior pastor. While this...
Historians have attributed the third president’s ownership of the Muslim holy book to his curiosity about a variety of religious perspectives. But that obscures a crucial fact: To many living in Jefferson’s young nation, this book meant much more.
D.J. Soto believes Christianity can be renewed through worship in virtual space. His VR mega-church is even attracting atheists.
The Creation Museum is a $27 million example of how Christians can lose their way fighting the culture wars.
The actor who played Jesus in Mel Gibson’s 2004 biblical blockbuster “The Passion Of The Christ” is in talks to resurrect that role.
The United States has been promoting religious liberty abroad since its founding, but there has always been disagreement on what exactly it is.
The first woman to go public with allegations of sexual abuse by Larry Nassar, the former sports medicine doctor at Michigan State University, says the laudatory public reaction to her story would have been different if it had happened at church.
Please submit transitions — including staff changes, ordinations, anniversaries or deaths — to Barbara Francis. This page will be updated weekly. STAFF CHANGES Ronnie Hayes, to Oak Grove Baptist Church, Boone, N.C., as pastor. Previously he was interim pastor there. Jeremy…
By John Mark Boes In this cultural and political climate, our country and world feel increasingly divided. The recent government shutdown is another example of the ever-increasing partisan division so rampant in the United States. Congregations, schools and homes are…
The directors of television newscasts lead intense, even frantic professional lives. They work long, caffeinated hours weaving together the up-to-the-minute contributions of producers, photographers and anchors into — they hope — coherent broadcasts. It’s much the same as shepherding a congregation, says Erica Van Brakle, a veteran of TV news production-turned-American Baptist pastor.
How boldly and confidently are you being the church God is calling you to be, living into your Christian vocation as a congregation?
As a movement, it’s anarchic and not formulaic. Each community has its own structure and rules, and ever since Dorothy Day died in 1980, it’s been leaderless. It’s also pretty fringe, as religious movements go. But that might be about to change.
In America, it seems that the prophetic tradition is in a crisis. How does it differ from the tradition of order? Indeed, it seems that the only tradition in America is that of order, and if there is a prophetic tradition, it seems that it is not easily and clearly distinguishable from the tradition of order.
