77 faith groups get total of $92 million for innovative faith programs for children
'Whether it's fragmentation, technological advances or spirituality, we need to refresh the traditional approaches to our faith,’ said one grant recipient.
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A new study looked at how worship leaders pick music for services — at a time when a handful of megachurches dominate the market.
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The school in Spokane, Washington, joins a sliver of Christian colleges and universities that have bucked a largely sturdy resistance to hiring married gay faculty.
Southern Baptists say no to women pastors. But what does the Bible say a pastor is?
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?
Southern Baptists start constitutional step naming only men as pastors
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.’
Reparations campaign takes new forms with Bible study, Juneteenth march
'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.
Vexed by quailing attendance, sex abuse and internal feuds, SBC takes on women pastors
More than 12,000 local church representatives, known as messengers, will gather in New Orleans, ready to do their denomination's business.
With Keller’s death, ‘young, restless, and reformed’ new Calvinists are at a crossroads
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.
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There's a power in the ordinary church, Amy Julia Becker opines.
Dave Ramsey sued for $150 million by former fans who followed his timeshare exit advice
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Bishop Vashti McKenzie on leading National Council of Churches as it nears 75 years
‘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.
How evangelical Christian writer Jemar Tisby became a radioactive symbol of ‘wokeness’
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 Lego prototype a tribute to his ‘deep spiritual resonance’
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood could again become a household fixture, this time in the form of a Lego set.
DeSantis’ spiritual-warrior style a bid for support from like-minded pastors
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Anger management and guns
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Carl Lentz calls abuse allegations ‘categorically false’ in new Hillsong documentary
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Tim Keller, retired New York megachurch pastor and bestselling author, dies at 72
In the late 1980s, Keller, a former seminary professor, moved to New York City to start a new congregation. That start up church, Redeemer Presbyterian Church, became a congregation of more than 5,000. The church's success and Keller's books made him one of the most influential evangelicals in the US.
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Poll: Religious attendance is shrinking but those who remain are happy
In the PRRI study, 57% of Americans say they seldom or never attend religious services. Among those who do, 89% said they were proud to be associated with their congregation.
Faith-based refugee resettlement agencies denounce new asylum rule
The new rule, which goes into effect May 16, rejects asylum claims for most people who cross the border but do not first seek asylum in Mexico.
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UMC bishops request 2026 General Conference as hundreds more churches disaffiliate
To date, at least 2,804 churches have left the United Methodist Church since 2019, according to United Methodist News Service.