When I call my stockbroker for a report or advice I always routinely ask “How are you doing?” His response is always the same: “Living the dream!” Today, the goal is to make something of yourself, and sadly, that thinking has also invaded the modern
As coronavirus spreads in the United States, many religious services are moving online to help prevent the spread of the outbreak. The decisions to cancel services at some Baptist and other Christian churches follow similar moves in recent weeks in other countries, including in Asia
Although Jesus called us to care for the sick, the weary, those in prison, etc., he didn’t give specific guidance about how to do that in the middle of a coronavirus pandemic. And so we’re left to think that through.
Besides biblical text, what else is written in the Dead Sea Scrolls? Sectarian literature, written and treasured by the groups near the Qumran settlement. Read full story
A couple of weeks ago, Religion Communication Congress executive Shirley Struchen thought plans were set for the once-a-decade conference she had helped organize, just as she had two times before. On March 11, the meeting was canceled.
Why are conservative white evangelical U.S. Christians unmoved over the threat of climate change? Explanations are varied, but one popular theory suggests that end-times theology has primed evangelicals for apathy.
Since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, we’ve witnessed communities coming together, and we’ve seen individuals engaging in simple acts of kindness to remind the sick and quarantined that they are not forgotten. Yet from some quarters, we’ve also seen a degree of cruelty that
After watching historic political events recently unfold and talking to dear friends on both sides of the issues at hand, I am once again reminded of how dangerous it is to live in a bubble of our own making. A political bubble has its obvious
With the whole nation of Italy essentially in quarantine as the coronavirus outbreak grows, the small Italian Baptist community has moved worship online and is seeking to minister in this difficult time. In the country’s epicenter of Milan, Protestant churches are working across denominational lines
Of the 10 religious traditions in the United States that have the oldest members, the top seven are mainline Protestant traditions.