As Holy Week began this year, a Gallup Poll found that church membership in the United States had declined to less than half of the population for the first time. But it’s not the whole story, and there are realities behind Gallup’s numbers that deserve
To have won all the accolades that were his -- somewhere around 400 awards in his career -- Don Rutledge had a quiet, confident personality. He epitomized Christian humility.
Too often, churches have trailed society at large in terms of embracing racial and ethnic diversity, a multiethnic panel told a regional New Baptist Covenant II gathering in San Antonio.