‘Go in Peace’: U.S. Church Founded in 1800 Holds Last Service
A Pennsylvania church with a 221-year history held its final service and is scheduled to close at the end of the year because of declining membership and attendance.
Students Accuse Bible College of Racism as Historic Social Work Program is Shuttered
The first Bible college to open a social work program in the United States shut that program down in May after 55 years, opening a rift with a group of students and alumni who have accused the administration of killing a department that was teaching students
Amish Put Faith in God’s Will & Herd Immunity Over Vaccine
When health care leaders in the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch country began laying out a strategy to distribute COVID-19 vaccines, they knew it would be a tough sell with the Amish, who tend to be wary of preventive shots and government intervention.
Southern Baptist Church Fractures Over Secrets and Spiritual Abuse
In 2000, Donald Foose was convicted and jailed for molesting an underage relative. In 2018, exposed a husband and wife at the church where he then pastored in Pennsylvania discovered his record – fracturing a tightknit, devout community of roughly 100 members.
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.
Redesigning Sacred Spaces to Serve Their Communities — and Save Their Congregations
PHILADELPHIA (RNS) — the crowd at the Philadelphia Center for Architecture was packed in, clergy shoulder to shoulder with architects, ordinary citizens with community organizers. They gathered to see the results of Infill Philadelphia, a design competition hosted in the city to improve community spaces.
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