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Transitions for the week of 5-6-22

Please submit transitions — including staff changes, ordinations, anniversaries or deaths — to Barbara Francis. This page will be updated bi-weekly. STAFF CHANGES Caleb Bittler, to New Bethesda Baptist Church, Mechanicsville, Va., as senior pastor, effective June 1. Currently he is…

If you’re glad women were the first Easter preachers, what are you doing about it now?

During Easter weekend this year, my social media feed was filled with posts about women preaching on the first Easter. The main theme of the posts was that if we want to be biblical, then women should be preaching the…

Church religious education took more of a hit than worship during pandemic

Much has been written about the challenges churches faced in maintaining corporate worship during the pandemic, but little has been reported on the changes brought about in religious education. Yet a new national study from Hartford Institute for Religion Research…

The Supreme Court’s politicized decision on abortion will do nothing to help churches thrive

As if the American church isn’t divided enough, it appears we’re about to roll back the clock 50 years on abortion rights and throw more jet fuel on the culture war bonfires consuming our congregations. For some churches and pastors,…

Evangelical leaders descend on Capitol to advocate for immigration reform now

About 200 evangelical leaders, including many megachurch pastors from around the country, descended on Washington, D.C., May 3 for two days of intense lobbying of Congress on the issue of immigration reform. The faith-based blitz was coordinated by the National…