For the 21st straight year, the Missouri Nondiscrimination Act (MONA) is languishing with little hope of becoming law. MONA would add sexual orientation and gender identity to Missouri’s Human Rights Act alongside race, gender, religion and other categories.
A proposed bill would prohibit the use of anonymous names — such as John or Jane Doe — in any lawsuit involving the U.S. Constitution's "Establishment Clause" or the Missouri Constitution's religious freedom clauses. However, twice as many people testified against Billington's proposal as spoke for
No one group has arguably done more — in the past — to advance religious freedom than evangelicals. Understanding their role in crafting religious freedom makes recent news all the more tragic, but also hints at a better way forward for the evangelical movement as
"Unreached people group" labels are not just a matter of semantics; if too broad or too narrow, they fail to identify the people who are most desperate for the gospel and won’t accurately capture the church’s progress toward making disciples of all nations.
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is one of the most popular personality tests in the world. It’s also one of the most regularly debunked.
Revelations that the accused gunman in a deadly synagogue shooting in California was a church-going Presbyterian prompted response from a small denomination that is part of the “young, restless and reformed” family tree.
A House Committee on Elementary and Secondary Education’s hearing of House Bill 577, which would require all school buildings to prominently exhibit the U.S. national motto, “In God We Trust,” was held on Tuesday (April 30).
A Hannibal man and former church elder who was accused of stealing more than $300,000 from the church over a 20-year span and pleaded guilty to wire fraud was sentenced to 366 days in prison Tuesday and ordered to pay restitution to Antioch Baptist Church
Small church life will be hard to sustain. Roughly 85% of American congregations have fewer than 250 members. Most of the work is done by older adults filling the pews. Millennials get much of the blame, but it's not life-work balance -- it's capitalism.
AUSTIN — HB 3899 and HB 3292, two bills pending in the Texas House of Representatives could expand predatory lending in the state, some religious leaders and consumer advocates warn.