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 former missions and evangelism student at a Kentucky Baptist Convention-affiliated Bible college is charged with murder in a case drawing national attention because of an unusual defense blaming the death on cold medicine.
The meeting illustrates why somemembers of an evangelical advisory board formed during last year’s campaign have decided to remain by Trump’s side despite widespread calls for them to resign after his response to white-supremacist demonstrations.
Trusting that God is at work empowering humans to work for the good of all is reassuring. It also prompts courageous action. While it is common to think that we are waiting on God, actually both God and others are waiting on us.
I deny that 153 self-appointed Evangelicals, rejecting such a broad and diverse swath of God’s beautiful world (and ignorant of their own, callous disregard for so many), have the right to define my “faithfulness and witness.”
Some scholars say the new Nashville Statement on sexuality has no basis in ancient Christianity.
A recent ABC News headline may have been a shocker to Americans who haven’t lived through a hurricane: “Hurricane Harvey recovery will be ‘multi-year project,’ Texas governor says.” That’s a fact many religious organizations know all too well. In fact, it’s their specialty.
The election of Donald Trump reveals a side of America long known to people in marginalized communities, says ethics professor Miguel De La Torre in a new book calling for faithful resistance to systems that perpetuate social and economic injustice.
Christians in Sierra Leone are still reeling from the worst flooding their West African nation has faced in recent memory, after a mudslide covered homes and churches on the outskirts of the capital city two weeks ago.
Five hundred years after the Reformation, surveys show that theological differences in the U.S. and Western Europe that split Western Christianity in the 1500s have diminished to a degree that might have shocked Christians in past centuries.
Comments of those who would otherwise be behind the statement’s traditional views show the way the Trump presidency has scrambled internal evangelical debate — particularly on the question of who has legitimacy to speak about morality in the public square.
More than 300 Christian leaders signed a statement released Aug. 30 declaring that God accepts LGBT persons as they are and not just if they vow celibacy or are willing and able to change their sexual orientation or gender identity.
Please submit transitions — including staff changes, ordinations, anniversaries or deaths — to Barbara Francis. This page will be updated weekly. STAFF CHANGES Lane Bass, to Murfreesboro (N.C.) Baptist Church, as senior pastor, effective Nov. 7. Tom Baynham, concluding his tenure…
