Dementia and Religion: Inside a Church’s Alzheimer’s Caregiver Support Group
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (RNS) — They sat in a circle in a room usually used by high schoolers and talked about the people they loved who no longer recognized them or who had died forgetting the names of family caregivers in their last days.
Songs and Stuffed Animals Instead of Sermons
RICHLANDTOWN, Pa. (RNS) — The seven women, most in wheelchairs, sat in a semicircle facing stained-glass windows and an altar topped with a cross and a statuette of Jesus holding a lamb. Underneath the draped table was an ark-shaped container brimming with small stuffed animals.
Dementia and Religion: Do’s and Don’ts
(RNS) — When a congregant has dementia, what can a house of worship do? Here are some do's and don'ts.
Roe v. Wade May Be in Peril, but Future of Anti-Abortion Movement Is Unclear
WASHINGTON (RNS) — After 45 years, the March for Life will have more of the feel of a victory party. Advocates and legal scholars say that for arguably the first time since 1973, undoing the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion isn’t just a dream of anti-abortion activists and the faith-based groups that back them — it’s likely to happen in some form.
LifeWay to Close Stores in Shift to Digital Strategy
NASHVILLE (BP) -- In light of "an accelerated rate of erosion" at "brick-and-mortar" stores, LifeWay Christian Resources President Thom Rainer has announced that some LifeWay stores will be closing. The number of stores to close and the timing of those closures has not been announced.
Martin Luther King Jr. and Anne Frank: Contemporaries with a Common Legacy
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Anne Frank were born in the same year, 1929. It was the start of the Great Depression, and in the world they came to know, people were out of work, hungry and looking for someone to blame. As happens all too often when people are frightened, the blame was fixed on vulnerable minorities.
Prohibition & Baptists: 100 Years Later
NASHVILLE (BP) -- When the 18th Amendment was ratified 100 years ago and prohibition became law of the land on Jan. 16, 1919 , the Southern Baptist Convention called it "the greatest victory for moral reform in America since the Declaration of Independence."
Open Doors: Christian Persecution up 14% Worldwide
WASHINGTON (BP) -- The number of Christians suffering high to extremely high persecution is 14 percent more in 2019, Open Doors reported, counting 245 million individuals globally.
DeMoss, Exec with ‘All-Access Pass’ to Evangelical History, to Close PR Agency
(RNS) — After nearly 30 years, a public relations agency that has acted as a powerful gatekeeper for some of the most prominent Christian faith-based organizations is closing its doors.
Church Dropout Rate Among Young Adults Studied
NASHVILLE (BP) -- Church pews may be full of teenagers, but a study released Tuesday (Jan. 15) suggests college students might be a much rarer sight on Sunday mornings.