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...
Para mí, los sueños de ansiedad representan un llamado al cambio. Pero el cambio es difícil. El cambio es difícil porque implica un trabajo arduo: un proceso de varios pasos que debe de estar rodeado de oración y discernimiento.
Financially struggling religious congregations, facing dwindling attendance and shrinking donations, are looking for other sources of revenue. Increasingly they are turning to their most valuable asset: location, location, location.
Evangelical Christians generally take a dim view of the Bill of Rights and freedom of speech, a newly published survey has found. The Barna Group uncovered those attitudes in a July study titled “What Makes America Great.” The survey asked…
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?
