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...
Depending on who you ask, evangelical attitudes on climate changed tend to be shaped by a combination of politics, race, theology and beliefs about science.
“You know that trick where a person pulls the tablecloth off of a table set with fine china, leaving everything standing as if it hadn’t been touched?” This was to be our final staff meeting as a team. Dr. Jim…
A call by Kentucky’s governor to pray away gun violence in predominantly African-American West Louisville fell on deaf ears of clergy hoping for more tangible solutions to more than 50 homicides in the Commonwealth’s largest city so far in 2017….
What has not happened yet is a Coptic act of revenge. Some fear that ISIS wants to turn Egypt into civil war-era Lebanon.
Barely a week after meeting with Pope Francis and promising to read the pontiff’s 184-page encyclical on climate change, President Trump earned scorn at the Vatican over his decision that the U.S. would exit the the Paris Agreement.
A very small home, a pastor’s Baptist identity and her evolving spiritual direction have found unlikely expression on the hit reality series “Tiny House Nation.”
Please submit transitions — including staff changes, ordinations, anniversaries or deaths — to Barbara Francis. This page will be updated weekly. STAFF CHANGES Alfonso Campbell III, to New Baptist Covenant, as interim director of programs and communications. Laurel Cluthe, to Holmeswood…
Two new studies find that many clergy are both ill-prepared and reluctant to fully engage in end-of-life conversations with terminally ill congregation members and their families.
FitzGerald, author of “The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America” and a highly regarded journalist, speaks about the past and future of evangelicalism as a religious and political force in American life.
The Department of Defense now recognizes 216 religions. The Armed Forces Chaplains Board says the changes were made to better measure the religious makeup of the military and thereby provide more targeted spiritual support for them.
What if campus carry is simply the most dangerous of an unceasing set of classroom distractions, existing alongside tweets, texts, Google, Wikipedia and Facebook, diversions that thwart both instruction and provocation, disengaging students from ideas that might form or re-form them?
It’s a fair question. It’s a good question. But it’s one which needs unpacking.
