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Is Alcoholics Anonymous a religion?

While AA presents itself to the public as a mere program of recovery from alcoholism, it’s actually best thought of as a particular moral community, offering a comprehensive conception of how one ought to live one’s life.

Discovering God in a skeptic

What do you do with a skeptic who’s not so sure of the concept of God but believes the Way of Jesus should change the world? You make a deacon of him, of course! And when he dies, what do you say? How honest can you be?

Pastor seeks Southern Baptist resolution denouncing social justice

A Texas pastor is asking the Southern Baptist Convention to reject various forms of “social justice” philosophy, which he says are leading the denomination’s churches, schools and institutions away from the Bible on issues like abortion, homosexuality and the distribution of wealth.

Americans believe Bible commands them to give, but to whom is up to them

A new research project found that half of Protestant churchgoers said they tithe to Christian ministries rather than churches. A third said their giving may be directed to individuals in need. And 18 percent said they tithe to secular charities,

How smaller congregations are challenging the system to ‘go solar’

Across the country, churches, synagogues and mosques have become increasingly conscious of their moral obligation to care for the environment. Many are stepping up their environmental activism by investing in renewable energy and particularly solar panels. But the speed with which they take on solar panels has much to do with economics.

Transitions for the week of 05.17.18

Staff changes, congregational news and more from across the nation.

To my fellow evangelicals: What you’re cheering in Jerusalem is shameful

It’s shameful, not only because they use their theology to make the moving of the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem a matter of “eternal” significance, but also because they refuse to hold the Netanyahu government accountable for Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, some of whom are themselves evangelical Christians.

City and church compromise in building-use dispute

An American Baptist congregation with a long history in its community can continue to rent space to outside groups as a way to afford upkeep of a church structure built during its former heyday, a California city council ruled May 14.

On creating a new politics with spiritual and intellectual integrity

As climate change threatens our very future, and economic inequality stokes dangerous social polarization, we are literally in a battle for our lives — one that can only be won in “sage mode” rather than “warrior mode.” We now need to show up at our wisest and best. And that only happens when the political and the spiritual are integrated.

#MeToo controversy takes down Southern Baptist patriarch

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Paige Patterson, women’s voices and the gaping hole in education

Fuller Theological Seminary leaving Pasadena and putting campus up for sale

Pastors, not politicians, turned Dixie Republican

City and church compromise in building-use dispute

Is Alcoholics Anonymous a religion?

Discovering God in a skeptic

Americans believe Bible commands them to give, but to whom is up to them

How smaller congregations are challenging the system to ‘go solar’

Transitions for the week of 05.17.18

To my fellow evangelicals: What you’re cheering in Jerusalem is shameful

City and church compromise in building-use dispute

On creating a new politics with spiritual and intellectual integrity