Why do so many have a stubborn attachment to corrupt leaders? Everybody has a favorite writer, speaker, or athlete they follow, so having a favorite religious figure is not unusual. Church leaders are respected figures …
“The church is not the building,” the old saying goes, and more and more congregations are taking that to heart. A trend of churches selling their buildings and properties to gain more financial stability and …
The early spread of the sport of basketball had a religious connection. St. Martin’s Episcopal Church in Harlem first organized basketball in 1905. Black churches helped spread basketball across the Black community of New York …
A blogger has leveled the accusation that pastor and author John MacArthur is a plagiarist. Julie Roys tossed down the plagiarism accusation on her blog. Roys’ case is built in part on a tweet from …
A Mt. Juliet, Tenn., pastor has been fanning flames in his community with promises to “fight the devil” with fire. Greg Locke, of Global Vision Church, has been preaching for weeks about the devil, illnesses, …
Is there a patron saint for travelers during a pandemic? Amidst the Vatican’s tightening of COVID-19 restrictions, pilgrimage plans to Vatican City are either being canceled or postponed. A recent decree from the Holy See …
Rev. Willie McLaurin has been named interim President and CEO of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee. He is the first African American to hold this position in the church’s 175-year history. This is especially …
The Rev. Susan Sims Smith has spent years developing interfaith work as a priest in the Episcopal Diocese of Arkansas. That work included building the Arkansas House of Prayer, a prayer and meditation center outside …
When faced with a worldwide pandemic, many churches have made huge strides when it comes to their use of technology to connect parishioners in the past two years. For some, though, the use of technology …
Claremont School of Theology and The Claremont Colleges have been embroiled in a legal battle for years over land that has housed Claremont School of Theology’s campus since 1957. When the 16.4 acre campus was …