A Capitalizing Kingdom
This issue of A Public Witness takes you to the latest stop of musician Sean Feucht's “Kingdom to the Capitol” tour before offering a hymn of reflection about the message of Holy Week.
Pastors: Palm Sunday a Balm after Nashville School Shooting
On Palm Sunday, many Christians cross the greater Nashville, Tennessee, region, headed to worship services grief-stricken and hurting for the lives stolen too soon in The Covenant School shooting.
Study: Religious Attendance Dips Slightly After Pandemic
The study found the share of U.S. adults who generally say they attend religious services at least once a month dropped from 33% in 2019, before the COVID-19 outbreak, to 30% in 2022.
‘Purple Church’ Pastors Mull Leadership Strategies in Polarizing Times
The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina held a leadership forum to help pastors figure out how to speak out without alienating half of their members.
Churches Provide Solace in Tornado-Ravaged Mississippi Delta
Friday’s storm flattened entire town blocks, but the Rolling Fork Methodist Church withstood the high winds. And so the first Sunday after the twister commenced just like any other Sunday — with congregants reaffirming their faith and finding solace together.
Judge Dismisses Lawsuit by 36 United Methodist Churches
A North Carolina Superior Court judge dismissed a lawsuit filed last year by 36 United Methodist churches demanding to sever their ties to the denomination.
Johnny Hunt, Disgraced Former SBC Pastor, Sues Denomination He Once Led
A disgraced former Southern Baptist president is suing the denomination he once led, saying he was defamed by allegations he assaulted another pastor’s wife.
For United Methodists’ Top Court, 2024 Is the New 2020
The United Methodist Judicial Council, the denomination’s top court, ruled again on the question of leaving the denomination in a decision released last week as the church goes through a slow-moving split over the ordination and marriage of its LGBTQ members.
Since the 1880s, Southern Baptists Have Argued Over the Role of Women
Since 2000, official Southern Baptist doctrine limits the role of pastor to men. But that doctrine had never been enforced at the national level until recently.
A Moral Reckoning 20 Years in the Making
This edition of A Public Witness revisits how too many American Christians decided to support an unjust war and considers what lessons the American Church can learn two decades later in the hopes of not repeating a sin of such consequence.