Launching an innovative ministry center in metro Detroit has been quite a roller coaster ride for Sue Hodnett and her volunteer ministry team. “We know that if we touch the life of a woman, most of the time we’re touching the life of a whole
It played out like a scene straight out of Isaiah 6. Apocalyptic, vision-like stuff. But then the script changed.
The highest court in the land has given states some leeway in determining when and how to safely reopen places of worship during the COVID-19 pandemic. The move lends support to state officials making science-informed decisions that may inhibit church congregants from fully engaging in
On Tuesday (June 2), artists and celebrities planned to black out their social media profiles and “mute” their feeds to amplify black voices. Here are a number of black advocates whose activism is rooted in their faith and who are working to educate and inform
This week (June 1), the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Discovery Team released its findings at the midpoint of Toward Bold Faithfulness, a one-year journey announced in October 2019, based on Acts 16:6-10.
In this season of uncertainty, let us take a moment to reflect on what sort of habits are shaped by the world and how we might release them in exchange for better, transformational habits.
Early Monday evening (June 1), President Trump stood before the historic St. John’s Episcopal Church in downtown Washington, DC, and held aloft a Bible for cameras. The church appeared to be completely abandoned. It was, in fact, abandoned, but not by choice.
It began with Attorney General Bill Barr standing with his hands casually in his pockets, not wearing a tie, surveying the scene at Lafayette Park across from the White House, where several thousand protesters had gathered for more demonstrations after the police killing of George
A worship service at Oak Grove Baptist Church in Waxhaw, N.C., ended abruptly Sunday morning May 24 after a disturbance by a neighbor led to a police-involved shooting.
On Pentecost Sunday, after unrest that swept the country in the wake of the brutal death of George Floyd at the hands of police, the Rev. William J. Barber II delivered what he called “a pastoral letter to America” urging that leaders hear — and