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Don’t go into a relationship — or institution — thinking you can change them
By Karen Swallow Prior — November 20, 2023
(RNS) — I thought for a long time I could help the church change. How foolish. How prideful.
American Values Survey with Robert P. Jones; Diane Winston and Reagan’s Evangelical Vision
By Ray Kirstein — November 5, 2023
Host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush talks with Dr. Robert P. Jones, founder and president at Public Religion Research Institute, about the 2023 American Values Survey; also, "Righting the American Dream: How the Media Mainstreamed Reagan’s Evangelical Vision" author Dr. Diane Winston
What an ‘Asian American apostate’ had to offer a Christian university after losing his faith
By Kathryn Post — April 18, 2023
(RNS) — A scathing critique of the evangelical culture at a Christian university in pre-Trump America.
US Hispanic Protestant churches are young, growing and largely new to the country
By Alejandra Molina — January 30, 2023
(RNS) — 'We see more and more English-speaking churches either planting a Hispanic church or adding a service in Spanish to their current congregation,' said Giancarlo Montemayor with Lifeway Recursos.
At Boston-area church, a theology lab tackles complex topics with humility, curiosity
By Bob Smietana — January 19, 2023
(RNS) — In recent years, Highrock Church has held a series of conversations about topics such as Black theology and American evangelicalism — hoping to model conversations where people with differing points of view can listen to one another.
An insular ‘Quiverfull’ church in New York’s North Country faces a reckoning
By Kathryn Post — August 25, 2022
(RNS) — Christian Fellowship Center in New York state’s North Country is described as an idyllic community — as long as you follow the rules.
Roberto Miranda, pastor of Lion of Judah, prominent Boston church, has died
By Bob Smietana — May 22, 2022
(RNS) — A Harvard-educated pastor who grew a small congregation into one of the most influential evangelical congregations in Boston has died.
A Calvin professor officiated a same-sex wedding. It likely cost him his job.
By Bob Smietana — April 22, 2022
(RNS) — Calvin’s Professional Status Committee decided not to renew the professor's two-year appointment due to his ongoing conflict with school leaders over the issue of LGBT inclusion.
Mark Labberton hopes his successor at Fuller will be a woman or a person of color
By Alejandra Molina — October 28, 2021
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — 'I think in this next chapter the president should certainly be, I hope, at least a full generation younger and different from me than we've had in the past — in either race or gender,' said Mark Labberton, president of Fuller Theological Seminary.
Is God good for America? Depends whom you ask.
By Ryan Burge — October 14, 2021
(RNS) — Most Americans see religion as good for society. Those on the extremes disagree.
Understanding evangelicalism in America today
By Terry Shoemaker — August 4, 2021
(The Conversation) — A religion scholar explains how evangelicalism in the US is not a monolith. It includes a a variety of churches, theologies and practices.
Lonely no more: Questioning Christians find belonging on TikTok
By Renée Roden — July 27, 2021
(RNS) — Deconstructing the faith of one's childhood can be a lonely undertaking. For many of these church exiles, TikTok has filled the gap.
What is biblical inerrancy? A New Testament scholar explains
By Geoffrey Smith — July 20, 2021
(The Conversation) — The doctrine of inerrancy likely took shape during the 19th and 20th centuries in the United States, in response to the rise of liberalism within Christianity.
Why some younger evangelicals are leaving the faith
By Terry Shoemaker — July 15, 2021
(The Conversation) — Disaffected young evangelicals and those who left the church describe an out-of-touch institution not in line with their political beliefs, a scholar found
Brazil’s Bolsonaro picks evangelical for supreme court seat
By Mauricio Savarese — July 14, 2021
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday named Attorney General Andre Mendonca, an evangelical pastor, to Brazil's supreme court.
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