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...
A Mennonite and math teacher, Esther Koontz was asked by her school to sign a statement proclaiming that she does not boycott Israel. She stood by her personal faith and moral convictions, and refused, and was denied a contract.
Exactly 42 years after Bill Hybels pioneered a contemporary style of evangelical Christian worship, the senior pastor of Willow Creek Community Church announced this weekend that a woman will take his place as CEO.
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt signed papers Oct. 10 to begin a process to repeal the Clean Power Plan, the centerpiece of the previous administration’s initiative to reduce carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants connected to climate change.
As just about anyone who works regularly among at-risk populations knows, the disenfranchised are swept under the social rug regardless of what city they are in. But poverty, hunger and other ills can be harder to spot in recreational get-aways.
Common ground could happen in our world. But we have to be the ones to make it happen.
Grady Nutt, the late Baptist humorist and television entertainer whose gentle teasing of Southern church culture earned him a wide audience in the 1970s and ’80s, was remembered at a celebration Sept. 23 in Louisville, Ky.
Let’s start with a little perspective: we write and read this column from the vantage point of being the most insanely wealthy people in the history of the human race.
Lovers of church music will gather in Dallas this weekend to launch the Center for Congregational Song, at a time when musicians are trying to re-energize an aspect of church life that often gets mired in feuds.
“Independent Network Charismatic” Christianity is significantly changing the religious landscape in America — and its politics.
After 15 years of litigation, a state judge ruled Sept. 27 that trustees of two Missouri Baptist Convention entities violated their own articles of agreement when they acted unilaterally to choose their own successors instead of those nominated by the MBC.
A church-state specialist says Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ 25-page memorandum outlining the scope of religious liberty protections reflects “a decided tilt” toward concerns about the free exercise of religion while giving short shrift to the First Amendment’s establishment clause.
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