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How mean and lean must a budget be before it’s immoral?

The old preacher said if you want to know about someone’s spirituality, there’s no better measure than how they spend their money. The preacher wasn’t a money-grubbing televangelist; his comment reflected years wizened by experience as a careful student of…

Impact of Trump refugee cuts felt by churches, nonprofits and internationals

The limit President Trump has placed on the number of refugees who can enter the U.S. has devastated those who have languished in overseas refugee camps for years. While the travel-ban portion of Trump’s second executive order has been placed…

Engaging the immigration debate: Ethicist, pastor differ on New Sanctuary Movement

A Baptist ethicist says flaws in America’s immigration system don’t rise to the level of a moral issue to justify the use of civil disobedience, but a Washington, D.C., pastor believes churches should do everything in their power to renounce language of criminality in the immigration debate.

A pastoral response to an ethical analysis: Why we said ‘yes’ to being a sanctuary church

We don’t very often read our Scriptures through the lens of the immigrant experience. We don’t talk about Father Abraham and Mother Sarai as immigrants or Ruth as a refugee, or Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego as slaves of the empire. American Christians don’t talk about our holy book this way because we don’t have to.

A move to part-time clergy sparks innovation in congregations

Although church leaders often worry that switching from full-time to part-time clergy will lead to decline, congregations across the country are finding new vitality by reimagining the roles of clergy and laypeople.

Transitions for the week of 03.24.17

Clergy and organizational staff moves, church news, obituaries and more, updated weekly.

How atheist campaigner Madalyn Murray O’Hair became America’s most-hated woman

Melissa Leo stars in Netflix’s upcoming biopic of the contentious figure who was ridiculed and largely forgotten about, but who often talked sense.

Steve Bannon’s would-be coalition of Christian traditionalists

From American evangelicals to Russian Orthodox, they’re united against Islam. Is that enough to overcome all that divides them?

It’s time to end the hands-off attitude to substitionary atonement

The nonviolent God of Jesus is incompatible with a God who makes a horrendous act of violence a divinely required act of atonement. Jesus didn’t die because God needed a sacrifice. Jesus died because the powers that be had him killed. He bore the suffering, hate and evil of the world. We are called to do the same.

Prior to health care replacement bill being pulled, range of Baptist leaders said ‘no’

A Baptist minister joined hundreds of interfaith clergy and community leaders in a Capitol Hill rally March 22 opposing the Republican plan to replace the Affordable Care Act as legislation moved to an expected showdown vote on March 24.

Princeton Theological Seminary reverses decision to honor Redeemer’s Tim Keller

Faced with mounting criticism for its decision to give a major award to the Rev. Tim Keller, founding pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan and one of the country’s best-known conservative Christian thinkers, Princeton Theological Seminary has reversed course.

Supreme Court slides into partisanship

Before the fireworks, be careful what you drink

The contemptible case of Clarence Thomas

The permanent paradoxes of Christian thinking about war