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...
It is OK for followers of Jesus to address incomplete, poor or dangerous ideas as stupid. But it is never OK to decide that a person is of lower worth based on their I.Q.
Rather than presuming to possess the moral high ground, and constantly pointing the finger at those from the other side who are just as bad, or offering forgiveness before taking time to condemn acts of sexual abuse, it’s past time to actually accept the breadth of this problem and do something about it.
One researcher says it’s rare for relics to date to the time period when a saint is believed to have died. He estimated that only one of every 20 relics he’s encountered stands up to this kind of scientific scrutiny.
Roy Moore’s failed run tested white evangelicals’ allegiance to the Republican Party. Would they vote for a candidate who shares their conservative views even though he was accused of sexual misconduct? Preliminary exit polls suggest they did just that.
Paul Pressler and Paige Patterson, key figures in a reorientation of the Southern Baptist Convention in the last century, have been named in a lawsuit seeking more than $1 million in damages for a man claiming physical and spiritual harm resulting from a period of Baptist history often called the “Conservative Resurgence.”
As preachers and stories go, we tend to pick them up all over and sometimes forget where we got them. I can’t recall the source, but one of my favorite Christmas stories is about a little church that traditionally had…
Many Baptist churches — Alabama’s largest denomination — do good works around the city. But Baptist Church of the Covenant is different.
First Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, N.C., hopes a smaller footprint will allow the church to redefine its mission and identity while saving its historic sanctuary.
Guns and their inherent power restore in some people a sense of control stripped away by the economic consequences of globalism, say the authors of a new study.
The central claim of our faith is: “The Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth; and we beheld his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father.” Don’t let the poetic familiarity of the language fool you, this is an audacious claim. Christians believe that God looks and loves like Jesus.
The nation of Israel and the role of the city of Jerusalem are central in the “end-times” theology — a form of what is known as “pre-millennialism” — embraced by many American conservative Protestants.
David Bentley Hart’s text recaptures the awkward, multivoiced power of the original.
