As the Southern Baptist Convention in its recent annual meeting has proved itself unreliably Baptist, it gives me pause to think about how quickly the transmogrification of this Baptist denomination into its ecclesiastical opposite has happened. Baptist folk often have...
Ministry in a local jail combined with an intensive educational program in addiction and recovery opened a minister’s eyes to the needs of an ignored population.
Restorers working in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Israel uncover a stone slab venerated as the resting place of Jesus Christ.
Comments about abortion in the final U.S. presidential debate prompted a well-known pastor and columnist to break her silence about her own painful experience with late-term abortion. Amy Butler, pastor of Riverside Church in New York City and contributing columnist…
Please submit transitions — including staff changes, ordinations, anniversaries or deaths — to Barbara Francis. This page will be updated weekly. STAFF CHANGES Tom Baynum, to Ginter Park Baptist Church, Richmond, Va., as minister of music. James Cozart, to Oakwood Memorial…
When my stylist at Supercuts finds out that I have only lived in Brooklyn for five months, she offers to explain New York to me. She looks me in the eye and says, “If you love New York, she will…
The New Monastic communities get quite a bit of press. And why not? Their adherents shun contemporary society and church to live communally. They embrace ancient Christian contemplative and worship rituals, practice radical hospitality and serve those living on the margins…
“All dogs go to heaven” may be debatable theologically, but in Roanoke, Va., there’s a place where canines can go to church. Welcome to “dog chapel” at Colonial Avenue Baptist Church, a 53-year-old congregation affiliated with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship….
On Thomas Merton’s vision of transcendence through faith.
Quick fixes like contemporary worship and missional outreach can’t fix what ails U.S. churches, an American Baptist official said in a recent lecture at Central Baptist Theological Seminary. “There are no quick fixes,” Jeff Woods, associate general secretary for regional…
The Art of the Qur’an aims to introduce visitors to the Islamic holy book as both foundational sacred text — the divine message for Muslims, received by the Prophet Muhammad between 610 and 632 — and work of art.
I know a pastor who left a large, suburban church where he served for 25 years to plant a new church in one of the poorest areas of town. He joined with another non-profit and they formed a new LLC…
No, this is not a political endorsement. I am not implying that I will vote for Hillary Clinton as the next president of the United States or that you should. This is kind of a new revised version of her…
