Note: This article discusses suicide, child sexual abuse and domestic violence. It may be distressing for some readers. On June 30, child liberation theologian and abuse survivor advocate Ryan Stollar died by suicide, following a lengthy struggle with his...
Top-notch preaching most attracts people looking for a new place to pray. That’s the conclusion of a new Pew Research Center study which asked 5,000 people about their search for a new church or other house of worship.
Many schools are partnering with congregations to address issues of food and justice. But Princeton may be the first to create a theological curriculum in the context of a farm with the aim of shaping students for ministry.
In all my planning for our section hike of the Appalachian Trail last week, I apparently only read the blogs that talked about the incredible views I would see along the way. Mountain peaks and rolling hills. If folks wrote…
What if, instead of using the tired mathematics of budgets, buildings, and pew-butts to determine whether or not the Church is effective, we started judging the efficaciousness of a body of people charged with bringing heaven to earth?
It seems obvious that a church searching for its next leader would be clear on how it understands the role of the pastor in its own context. But the hard truth is congregations are often fuzzy on that detail. “If…
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has halted an execution scheduled Aug. 24 which had been labeled immoral by a group of evangelical leaders including several well-known moderate Baptists.
A Christian theme park in Kentucky brings the ancient to life through a life-sized reconstruction of Noah’s Ark—but not without dipping into fiction.
Muslim and Christian congregations are coming together to paint their sacred sites the color of joy.
An association of Baptist churches in Canada is calling for a boycott of the nation’s second-largest supermarket chain to protest the grocer’s appeal of a human rights panel’s finding that the store engaged in racial profiling.
You would think that after preaching almost four cycles of the Revised Common Lectionary a preacher would have at least one sermon on all the interesting texts that come around regularly. For some reason unknown to me, however, it turns…
There is something wrong with 2016. That may be the most self-evident and non-controversial statement to come up in your Facebook newsfeed in quite a while. In fact, it has become an almost universally acknowledged truth. So many of us…
The number of religious freedom bills across the United States may give the impression that using the law to protect faith is a purely conservative pursuit. Well, it isn’t, says Brent Walker of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty.
