The Country’s Largest Protestant Adoption Agency Is Dropping LGBTQ Couples — Again
The reversal comes five years after the foster care and adoption agency first agreed to partner with LGBTQ couples.
Willy Rice, Florida Pastor and Abuse Crisis Skeptic, Elected SBC President
Rice’s win is a triumph for critics who argue that the nation’s largest Protestant denomination has lost its way in recent years.
At TPUSA’s Women’s Summit, Christian Influencers Say Feminism Threatens Motherhood
Thousands gathered for the Texas event as young women increasingly abandon religion.
4 Years Running, Southern Baptists Weigh Tightening Ban on Churches With Women Pastors
Even as the convention's membership shrinks, the annual meeting in Orlando serves as a bellwether for religious and political trends among evangelicals.
Draft of King’s ‘Letter From Birmingham Jail’ Found at Virginia Seminary Archives
The version housed at Virginia Theological Seminary is not for sale, and archive staffers plan to seek the best ways to make its contents available for the public to view.
As Polyamory Gains Visibility, Monogamy Faces a Vote in the Presbyterian Church (USA)
A separate proposal on the docket at the mainline Protestant denomination’s General Assembly this summer calls for a broader theological framework on human relationships.
These Houses of Worship Are Older Than America. How They Outlasted Wars, Schisms, and Lawsuits.
Only about 1% of houses of worship in the U.S. today existed in 1776. Here are four that predate the revolution — and still hold services.
How Worship Music Became the Soundtrack of Today’s Political Right
One of the most popular worship songs, ‘How Great Is Our God,’ has moved from churches to political rallies in recent years.
As Seminaries Shuttered, Union Grew. For Serene Jones, Controversy Was the Price of Survival.
Jones is stepping down as president of Union Theological Seminary after 18 years. Her tenure has been defined by difficult, sometimes unpopular decisions that helped stabilize the institution even as mainline Protestantism declines.
The Cherokee Bible, One of the Language’s First Books, Is a Window Between Worldviews
Translating the Bible into Cherokee began early in the 19th century, shortly after Protestant missionaries arrived in the Cherokee Nation – centered mainly in what are now western North Carolina, north Georgia, and eastern Tennessee.