What is a church to do in the time of the coronavirus pandemic? For many religious traditions, gathering for worship is not just a friendly suggestion.
A group from a Kansas City United Methodist Church left on a mission trip to Guatemala, not knowing their biggest mission would be finding a way back home. Fourteen students ages 14 through 17 and five adults are stuck in Guatemala.
According to a group of 30 to 40 “Concerned Members of FBCN,” which includes several former deacons, racism had nothing to do with why pastoral candidate Marcus Hayes was rejected as pastor of First Baptist Church (FBC) Naples, a prominent SBC megachurch in Florida.
Loneliness, we know from the research, can be as bad for your health as smoking. It’s more predictive of mortality than obesity. There are at least four specific activities that can help compensate for all the things we are not doing.
Fear of the coronavirus — and orders from government officials to limit or ban large gatherings — had religious leaders first altering, then canceling, access to rituals that for millions are sustenance that can feel as basic as food or water.
A pastor from a Baptist church in Conway, Arkansas, told the Washington Post that in a meeting of area pastors, "One pastor said half of his church is ready to lick the floor, to prove there’s no actual virus."
Besides biblical text, what else is written in the Dead Sea Scrolls? Sectarian literature, written and treasured by the groups near the Qumran settlement.
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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
German Christians like Fischer are turning from their own language to a more global tongue: English. They say the foreign language allows them to loosen their German identity, praise God in an uninhibited way, and connect with a global, cosmopolitan Christianity.
