The expulsion of Saddleback Church and other congregations for having women pastors led to national headlines. It’s also prompted questions about thousands of other churches where women serve in roles such as children’s pastor or music minister. Can the role’s title get a church in trouble with the SBC?
The new language would add that a church ‘affirms, appoints, or employs only men as any kind of pastor or elder as qualified by Scripture.’
'The case for restitution and restoration is laid out across the Old Testament and New Testament,' reads the introduction of the National Council of Churches' study.
More than 12,000 local church representatives, known as messengers, will gather in New Orleans, ready to do their denomination's business.
The Reformed resurgence swept through evangelicalism in the early 2000s, fueled by Calvinism, charisma and complementarianism. Despite the fall of a number of leaders, the movement retains staying power.
There's a power in the ordinary church, Amy Julia Becker opines.
The class-action lawsuit is the latest legal woe for Ramsey and his company.
‘I think that the difference, at this point, is that I am adding activism to advocacy,’ she said as she became NCC president after serving as interim leader. The NCC is an ecumenical organization of which the PC(USA) is a member alongside 37 other member communions.
Once an evangelical insider with a textbook conversion story, Tisby has become persona non grata in some Christian circles for his books on race and religion, including the 2019 bestseller, ‘The Color of Compromise.’
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood could again become a household fixture, this time in the form of a Lego set.
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