It is midnight. Not the kind of midnight measured by clocks. The kind that settles into your bones. The kind that lingers long after the sun has risen. We all know this midnight. It is the midnight of the marriage...
Four years ago a line in Keith Getty’s song “In Christ Alone” sparked a debate over the meaning of the atonement. In nearly two months since the Southern Baptist Convention nearly failed to pass a resolution condemning the alt-right movement,…
God’s invitation is nothing less than a beckoning to receive what God alone can provide: grace. Grace receives us as we are and renews the human spirit. Grace reminds us of who we are created to be and supplies the enervating work of the Spirit that we might fully live.
It’s been a roller-coaster year for Christian author and speaker Jen Hatmaker. Hatmaker spoke with RNS about both mess and moxie, banned books and maintaining a healthy outlook on life.
Last month, I announced in an op-ed I was leaving the Southern Baptist Convention. Afterwards, my email was flooded with hundreds of responses from people all across the country. Here is a collection of their responses.
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.
Gone are the days when we can just follow the masses to church without ever actually following God’s Son, Jesus Christ. But isn’t that good?
In an era when millions of Americans dread the next presidential Tweet and the nation’s mental health professionals report increasing cases of “Trump anxiety,” a study to combining those topics may be especially timely. And that’s just what Baylor University…
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 words sting all these years later. They came earlier in Alan Rudnick’s pastorate when a congregant called to chastise him for not visiting another member in the hospital. “You’re not doing your job,” the caller said. “You’re not being…
