Church’s Use of Digital Tools Provides Opportunities to Reach the World
Local churches also have tremendous opportunities to use today’s technology to influence their communities and the world with the gospel.
Report: Climate Migrants Could Top 143 Million by 2050
There could be 143 million climate migrants within three regions of the world by 2050 if trends hold and no action is taken to mitigate the impact of climate change, according to a World Bank report.
Pope: ‘Saints Next Door’ Please God More Than Perfect Doctrine Adherence
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Francis is calling for ordinary Catholics to live holy lives in whatever they do, stressing that the "saints next door" are more pleasing to God than religious elites who insist on perfect adherence to rules and doctrine.
Georgia Association Disfellowships Church over Racism Charges
ALBANY, Ga. (BP) -- What began as a harmonious relationship between a declining Anglo church and a growing African-American church plant in Georgia ended when Mallary Baptist Association disfellowshipped Raleigh White Baptist Church on grounds of racism.
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.
Report: Global Hunger Rises by 11 Million in 2017
Almost 124 million people in 51 nations experienced acute hunger in 2017, according to a report released on March 22.
Don’t Domesticate MLK
(RNS) -- Whenever we remember the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., some people inevitably pull out a piece of sandpaper and try to smooth the sharp edges of the great civil rights prophet.
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.