'Johns Hopkins and NYU schools of medicine carried out the study, and that in itself speaks to the powerful presence psychedelics have in popular consciousness,' said scholar Gary Laderman.
‘For Southern Baptists, the waters of sexuality are not muddy,’ said Southern Baptist Convention President Clint Pressley.
The issue of women staffers who have the title of pastor in SBC churches has been up for debate repeatedly in recent years.
Five churches organized the event out of a conviction of their faith, but as an invisible network.
Walter Brueggemann, who died June 5 at age 92, read the Bible not as a scientific account or a rigid moral code but as sacred myth that could still speak with truth and urgency.
His books were influential primarily with clergy, but through their sermons Brueggeman’s concepts have become familiar to many churchgoers.
Bishop Michael Pham is the first Vietnamese American bishop to lead a US diocese.
‘We are honest about the conditions that we're facing, but we are not hopeless about what we're facing,' said Bishop W. Darin Moore of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church.
A quiet alliance between North and South American cardinals helped elect the first US-born pope.
'Afrikaners don’t fit any definition of refugee,' said the Most Rev. Sean Rowe, the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church.
Built to train pastors, many seminaries like Princeton and Austin are increasingly welcoming students looking to discern their calling rather than intending to work at a congregation.
‘The election of an American Pope, the first American Pope … there’s a signal here that the church is taking a side in what’s happening around the globe,' said Steven Millies, a professor at Catholic Theological Union.
As Catholics, our arms will be wide open to the world. We will accompany the world. We will live in the world. — Steven P. Millies
Cardinal Robert Prevost's tweets and posts might offer clues into the mind of Pope Leo XIV.
Who is Robert Francis Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, and what might we expect from his papacy?
In a shocking vote that caught the Catholic world by surprise, Robert Francis Prevost has been elected the 267th pope, and the first United States citizen to become the Bishop of Rome.
President Donald Trump has appointed evangelical allies and a pair of high-profile Catholic clergy to join other faith leaders on a National Commission on Religious Liberty.
While arrests of protesters at the Capitol is not unusual, the response to Barber’s prayer was unusually dramatic: After issuing verbal warnings, dozens of officers expelled everyone in the Rotunda — including credentialed press.
A slate of conservative, transitional and progressive candidates to replace Francis.
Francis leaves behind him a church still divided, but radically transformed.
In recent decades, some Christians have moved away from the theory of penal substitutionary atonement, which summons up the idea of an angry God who needs to be appeased.
Presbyterian churches, including St. Andrew's in Austin and Lake View in Chicago, are stepping up efforts to provide support to vulnerable migrants amid heightened immigration enforcement.
Graham defended the Trump administration's review of USAID funding as an important step in reining in federal waste and fraud.
Since he was inaugurated in January, President Donald Trump has faced virtually constant pushback from faith groups, including in the courts.
‘The U.S. is a spiritual place, a religious place, where we’ve seen signs of religious stabilization in the midst of longer-term decline,’ said Gregory Smith, a senior associate director of research at Pew Research Center.
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