What Baseball Can Learn from Religion
(RNS) -- The Boys of Summer are back and another baseball season is underway, but the game is declining in popularity, losing ground to endless digital amusements and to other sports.
The world of religion offers clues to the causes and consequences of the present troubles. It also suggests what it will take to revive the great American pastime.
MLK’s Last Sunday Sermon Is as Relevant Today as It Was in 1968
When King preached at Washington National Cathedral on March 31, 1968, nobody knew it would be the last Sunday sermon he would ever give. His "Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution" sermon has taken on even more significance because of that.
Why Isn’t There a ‘War on Easter’ like Christmas?
Christmas -- the only Christian holy day more popular than Easter -- has somehow become a recurring scandal with the so-called "War on Christmas." Yet Easter has somehow managed to avoid this controversy. Why?
Where the Buffalo Roam, a Passion Play Approaches the Century Mark
WICHITA MOUNTAINS WILDLIFE REFUGE, Okla. (RNS) -- Before the sun sets at a remote mountain attraction called Holy City of the Wichitas, Jesus and a band of white-winged angels walk through a crowd gathering on the hillside.
Nobody seems fazed.
PBS Film Explores How We Go Gently – or Kicking and Screaming – into the Night
(RNS) Five weeks after she receives her terminal lung cancer diagnosis, Phyllis Tickle is sitting on her porch in Tennessee, talking about death.
"I've reared my children. I've buried my husband. I've done the work I think I came to do," the renowned religious historian says. Then she pauses.
"Now I can go."
Survey: Protestant Church Diversity ‘Heading in the Right Direction’
(RNS) -- More than 4 in 5 Protestant pastors say their congregations are predominantly made up of one racial or ethnic group.
That 81 percent figure is high, but it's not as high as it was four years ago, according to a study published Tuesday (March 20) by LifeWay Research.
No Deathbed Conversion for Atheist Stephen Hawking
(RNS) - It happens a lot after famous nonbelievers die: People claim the nonbeliever had a deathbed conversion to Christianity.
And it happened again after the death last week of physicist Stephen Hawking, who, by his own account, did not believe in God.
Win or Lose, Cavaliers Coach Leans on Biblical Principles
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (BP) -- The Virginia Cavaliers began the regular season unheralded and unranked. They ended it as the No. 1 team in the country and a favorite going into this year's NCAA men's basketball tournament -- with many giving credit to their faith-fueled coach.
MercyMe Saga Opens Big with Two More Faith Films Due
LOS ANGELES (BP) -- "I Can Only Imagine" opened third at the U.S. box office this past weekend as the Easter season heralds two more faith-based films.
Can the Government Force Pregnancy Centers to Speak a Message They Disagree With?
(RNS) - The Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday (March 20) in a case with serious implications for religious rights and free speech nationwide.