(RNS) — Cyrus M. Copeland, who has recently completed his third book of the art of the eulogy, observes, , “A great eulogy cannot beat back Death, but it can give new meaning to life and this moment.”
ECFA was founded 40 years ago to promote financial integrity in Christian ministries and claims nearly 2,400 members, But after its years-long failure to identify financial misdeeds at Chicago-area Harvest Bible Chapel, the organization itself faces scrutiny.
The Satanic Temple is what, on the internet, they call a “troll”: a spoof meant to raise hackles and call attention to potential loopholes in religious freedom laws designed to benefit the Christian right. Its most recent triumph was convincing the Internal Revenue Service that
RICHMOND, Va.(BP) -- A small group of volunteers gathers two nights a month in south Richmond, Va., to walk a mile-long strip of the city and minister to prostitutes and others they cross paths with along the way.
The bigger factor behind the SBC’s decline isn’t the struggle to gain new converts; it’s keeping their own.
A century ago, a meeting in Philadelphia changed American religion forever.
Black Church Food Security Network is helping congregations establish gardens and farmers markets on church-owned land, and then the nonprofit connects them with black-owned farms and urban growers throughout the mid-Atlantic.
The percentage of Americans who are unaffiliated with any one religion has grown from 16% to 23% over the past decade. A recent paper in Science Advances found in other parts of the world, a rise in secularism often coincides with an increase in economic growth.
More than 1,000 victims of the Holocaust were buried May 22 in Belarus, some 70 years after they were killed in the genocide.
CARL JUNCTION, Mo. (BP) -- Just days after devastating storms hit the Midwest earlier this week, Southern Baptists have mobilized to help homeowners and share the Gospel of Jesus Christ in the impacted areas.