Church

For some, fear-saturated stories about the rapture can generate lifelong panic, paranoia, and anxiety.

The head of the country’s largest Lutheran denomination announced Wednesday that the ELCA is launching an initiative to help its members better understand the “colonizing impacts” the church has had.

A new study found that the most popular worship songs come from a handful of megachurches with a knack for writing pop songs about what God will do for you.

This issue of A Public Witness will take you to church in the wake of recent news about gun violence protests out of Tennessee to hear how a couple of ministers see the good news of the resurrection giving us a message for the here and now.

President since 2014, Pettit had helped soften some of the school’s rules while maintaining its conservative beliefs. That did not sit well with some board members.

The Raab Collection put up for sale a rare 15th-century manuscript containing a cipher that, when decoded, helped calculate the date of Easter during the Middle Ages.

Task force leaders have tried over the past year to talk a fine line between finding the best firm to set up a database to track abusive pastors and finding a firm their fellow Southern Baptists would accept.

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.

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.

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.