The transmogrification of the SBC: When Baptists no longer are Baptist

Faith leaders from around the country — including Traci Blackmon, Lisa Sharon Harper, Robyn Henderson-Espinoza and Brian McLaren — will join clergy in Charlottesville, Va., Aug. 12 to confront a large gathering of white nationalists.

Scattered bits of reporting suggest that ministry has always been a secret dream of the two-time presidential candidate.

A compelling portrait of a group that calls itself POTUS Shield (which also stands for “Prophetic Order of the United States”) and their roots in the New Apostolic Reformation, the “unholy alliance” between more traditional religious right groups and the Pentecostal…

A congregation is trying to set an example for others by installing solar panels to save money and protect the environment.

Churches and other faith groups collect tens of billions of dollars in donations each year. But not all of it ends up where it’s supposed to. About 1 in 10 Protestant churches has had someone embezzle funds.

The Hampton University Ministers’ Conference, while clearly having a stake in the national politics of the day — the invitation of then-Senator Barack Obama in 2007 shows this — has not focused on political conversation through the lens of black…

Even in the church, where marriage and families are celebrated—and, in many traditions, expected—female pastors are paid disproportionally smaller salaries if they’re married with kids, according to research published last month in the journal “Sociology of Religion.”

News that scientists for the first time successfully edited genes in human embryos created a stir this week.