It may now seem surprising to many United Methodists, and even more Baptists, that for most of our histories in the United States, all Methodists and Baptists were regularly designated as evangelical denominations. The most important reason is that both...
By Blake Tommey Pastor Jorge Zayasbazan is a child of the 1970s, which means he remembers the first Earth Day. “My generation was raised to understand creation care, though we didn’t call it that in 1970,” he said. Indeed, the…
As Good Friday moves toward Easter, churches across the world reassert their calling as the Body of the living Christ, not arcane museums.
A Christianity that brings newness to deadness, even if the newness was something we would never have chosen for ourselves, is the sort of thing that just might blow the doors off the universe if we’ll let it. At the least, I know this kind of Christianity manages to empty my tomb year after year after year.
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A crowdfunding campaign to raise $1.8 million to rebuild three historically black Baptist churches in a Louisiana parish hit by arson within two weeks surpassed its goal in seven days, aided – apparently – by non-stop images of the Notre Dame Cathedral fire in France.
Good Friday isn’t just a set-up for Easter Sunday and the ham and new shoes that accompany that day. Good Friday is about grief. It’s about death and dying, pain and loss, emptiness and hopelessness. To beam the light in too quickly will render us unable to see.
The scene of Notre Dame in flames was painful to watch. But those who have experienced church and clergy abuse have been watching our sacred spaces burn for years, maybe decades.
By Blake Tommey Missouri is a lush oasis for predatory loans, with more payday lenders there than Starbucks, McDonald’s and Walmart stores combined. In 2017, Missouri lenders issued more than 1.6 million payday loans—averaging about one in four residents—each carrying…
An evangelical church-planting network accused of covering up decades of sexual abuse has turned down calls for an independent third-party investigation, citing reasons including autonomy of the local church.
Erica Whitaker carefully pondered the plate of crackers presented to her, surveying each of the different brands available for communion that Palm Sunday evening. Slowly, she moved a finger from her chin to a very yellow selection on the plate,…
How ironic that the final season of “Game of Thrones” debuted on Palm Sunday, when Christians remember how people welcomed Jesus and hailed him as the Messiah, though all the while, winter was coming.
Nothing could have prepared me for the experience of watching my 7-year-old son kneel before me on Maundy Thursday to wash my feet in a basin, following the example of Jesus.
