(RNS) — Morris Chapman, a longtime leader of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee, died Monday. He was 84. “In a world where so many have fallen, he was faithful to the end,” current SBC President Clint Pressley posted on...
(RNS) — The Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, a Hispanic evangelical adviser to President Donald Trump, citing significant drops in church attendance in the face of immigration raids and mass deportations, is urging government leaders to recognize the “innocent people” who are...
(RNS) — In the weeks since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, American Christians have chosen strange epitaphs to memorialize the popular conservative pundit. “If Charlie Kirk lived in the biblical times, he would have been the 13th disciple,” said U.S. Rep. Troy Nehls...
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(RNS) — It is a weekend morning in the United States and the library doors are open. A young family searches for new picture books for bedtime. An older couple arrives for their tax help appointment. A teenager slips in...
This week, host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush is joined by Celina Stewart, Chief Executive Officer of the League of Women Voters. They get into the way the League’s work has evolved over the past 105 years, with a focus...
(RNS) — When it comes to going to church, a generational pattern is playing out in many households around the world: Grandparents never miss Sunday service; parents attend only on holidays; children, who describe themselves as “spiritual but not religious,”...
NEW YORK (RNS) — Nearly 700 people packed the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine on Manhattan’s Upper West Side on Saturday (Sept. 27) to witness the installation of the Rev. Winnie Varghese, the first queer woman of color...
(RNS) — When churches split from the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada in 2009 to form the Anglican Church of North America, the denomination’s church leaders hoped for a fresh start. Though they had broken with their...
(RNS) — Robert Nosanchuk, senior rabbi at Mishkan Or in Beachwood, Ohio, thinks of sermons at the High Holidays like snapshots of their times: “They capture a moment in time of relationship between … the congregants, the clergy and the...
