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 new study finds that a lecture from evangelical climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe successfully educates evangelical college students, validating the “trusted sources” approach.
More than 400 Christian leaders have signed a document condemning white supremacy beyond the “alt-right” brand of hate recently seen in Charlottesville, Va., extending to more subtle forms of racism including white privilege.
Faith-based groups are lining up to provide short- and long-term aid to Hurricane Harvey’s victims. But other groups, like the Salvation Army and Texas Baptist Men, are already operating in flooded areas, providing food, showers and other emergency services.
Take a few hundred Nazis and Klansmen marching openly in Charlottesville, add three fatalities and a wink from the White House, and many people are apt to wonder if God is really out there.
It was a showdown of biblical dimension: The king’s priests versus the prophet of God. The photo showed the evangelical leaders laying hands on President Trump in the White House. Then here comes the Rev. William Barber challenging their actions…
Members of First Baptist Church of Christ, one of Macon, Ga.’s, oldest churches, on Sunday overwhelmingly approved allowing same-sex marriage ceremonies in the church.
Hurricane Harvey shut down Sunday services from downtown to the sprawling suburbs, where churches replaced typical worship gatherings with sermon videos posted on Facebook or simply messages to stay safe.
An Aug. 14 mudslide that left more than 500 dead and 810 missing in Sierra Leone hit the majority Muslim nation’s small Baptist community particularly hard, according to the Baptist World Alliance.
The African-American pastor who initiated this summer’s Southern Baptist Convention resolution denouncing the alt-right urged other members of Donald Trump’s evangelical advisory board to step down in protest of the president’s remarks after the white supremacist march in Charlottesville, Va.
Many questions are being explored as these faithful teams attempt to craft a working budget for the year ahead. Here are four questions they would do well to ask.
Few disaster relief outfits have been as organized as the Baptist and Methodist networks. Imagine Delores J. Porter’s surprise, then, when she stepped onto the exposed floor joists of her torn-out home to find a troop of young Muslim volunteers.
Many religious activists and experts on the relevant law said the order amounted to a symbolic gesture with little chance of shaking the status quo. Now the Trump administration’s own lawyers have essentially taken the same position.
