The Salvation Army is exploiting a connection to the Beatles to draw more visitors to fund its mission and encourage people who would never consider stepping inside a church to find out about Christianity.
Lee Spitzer, historian for the Baptist World Alliance and affiliate professor of church history at Northern Seminary in Chicago, talks about his new book Sympathy, Solidarity, and Silence: Three Europeans Baptist Responses to the Holocaust.
A new poll of Britain’s Generation Z finds older adolescents and younger adults are more likely to believe in God than are millennials, the demographic ahead of them. No parallel trend has been identified in the United States.
It is hoped a temporary miniature-golf course will bring more visitors inside Rochester Cathedral. The nine-hole installation generated international headlines with churchgoers and religious commentators calling it sacrilege and historic preservationists objecting to what they said is a misuse of England’s second-oldest cathedral.
LONDON (RNS) — It’s not particularly news in Britain that young English people no longer automatically consider themselves Anglican.
What’s new, however, is that
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By Bill Webb Word&Way Editor Last week's horrific bombings in London left the nation and the city shaken. The attacks reminded the world that terrorism continues among everyday people -- even in countries where security measures are carried out with a high degree of expertise.