Christians often have been reminded that some of their forebears supported slavery, but many do not know Christians ended slavery in the United States. Southern Baptists, in particular, frequently are reminded their convention began amid the defense of slavery. Yet...
Mormon church lawyers said this week it’s unlikely they will reach a settlement with a woman who accuses the faith of covering for a former missionary leader who she says raped her in the 1980s.
Grace Umutesi has secretly been conducting services in her house in the Bannyahe slum on the outskirts of the capital since officials shut down her church in July for failing to comply with building safety standards and other regulations.
Kevin Hines, who survived a leap from the Golden Gate Bridge in 2000, will speak on “The Art of Wellness” at 7 p.m. Oct. 1 at Garner-Webb University in Boiling Springs, North Carolina. Hines is among a small group of…
This perhaps is the most confounding thing about God: why God chooses mercy over judgment. We want God to punish the bad – now – and put the world to rights. We want a clear signal that God is at least as moral as we are. Yet, God keeps giving people time to change, so that mercy may triumph.
The struggle is to welcome life as it is now, which is certainly different than you thought it would be or should be. The struggle is to see injury and illness and despair as a semicolon and not a period.
Please submit transitions — including staff changes, ordinations, anniversaries or deaths — to Barbara Francis. This page will be updated weekly. STAFF CHANGES Briana Ayala, to Centerpoint Community Church, Salem, N.H., as worship leader. Anyra Cano, to Texas Baptist Women…
When Linda Kay Klein was a teenager growing up in the Midwest, she dreamed of being cast as a virtuous woman or pious martyr in church plays.
A woman who claims a former Mormon leader raped her in the 1980s staged a protest from the pulpit of the accused man’s Arizona church on Sunday.
The popular evangelist and author received the news “three years to the day … at the very same time of day” as her husband Danny Lotz’s death by drowning in 2015.
The analogy between “inerrancy” as the foundation of biblical authority and judicial “originalism” as a basis for constitutional jurisprudence is noteworthy. Of more import is the sheer cynicism lying behind proponents of both inerrancy and originalism.
John McCain was no saint, but he pointed us to the better angels of our nature and many of us loved him for it. He treated enemies like friends. And in a messy and divided world like ours, that may be as good as it gets.
Welcome House, a community dedicated to holistic ministry with displaced peoples, had formed together with another ally in seeking wholeness for immigrants and refugees in North Carolina. Thomas and Nunu withdrew to their own apartment just across the hall, only to emerge with a 24-pack of bottled water for the moving crew and a simple question: How else can we help?
