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...
An increasing number of people miss church on Sundays, or other times during the week when primary worship services or small groups gather. The average number of weeks active Christians attend church is decreasing. The benchmark of at least 48…
By John Chandler I have to hand it to my friend and Virginia Baptist colleague, Glenn Akins. In the early 2000s, Glenn came back from meeting two relatively unknown pastors, Dave and Jon Ferguson of Community Christian Church in the…
By Bill Nieporte In the last three years, I have conducted funerals for almost 40 percent of the active participants in my congregation. I have also officiated more than a dozen funerals for non- and inactive members. These numbers might…
By Jeff Brumley Hospitality to a lot of Christians means taking a meal to a sick church friend or inviting neighbors over for a barbecue on Memorial Day. But neither of those meanings come even close to the spiritual practice…
By ABPnews/Herald staff The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship will announce its new coordinator for global missions next week, filling a position vacant since June 2012, when Rob Nash became a mission professor at Mercer University’s McAfee School of Theology. Since then,…
By Bob Allen When it comes to sexuality, many women are suffering, the lone female plenary speaker at a Southern Baptist summit on sex said during the final session of the three-day gathering. “Some women are suffering, and some women…
By Bob Allen A lawsuit described as the biggest evangelical sex abuse scandal to date is headed for appeal, a year after being dismissed on a technicality, elders of the church involved informed members in a letter dated April 22….
