Emily McFarlan Miller
Emily McFarlan Miller is a national reporter for RNS based in Chicago. She covers evangelical and mainline Protestant Christianity.
All Stories by Emily McFarlan Miller
Why United Methodists are watching the results of a denominational court meeting
By Emily McFarlan Miller — April 23, 2019
CHICAGO (RNS) — What might United Methodists' top court decide this week about the Traditional Plan, and what would that mean for the second-largest Protestant denomination in the United States?
Fellow Christian writers start Twitter prayer chain as Rachel Held Evans is hospitalized
By Emily McFarlan Miller — April 19, 2019
(RNS) — On Friday (April 19), the hashtag #PrayForRHE trended, forming a prayer chain for popular progressive Christian writer Rachel Held Evans as news spread she had been hospitalized.
#MeToo, ‘Mary Magdalene’ focus on women’s stories in Bible as Easter nears
By Emily McFarlan Miller — April 18, 2019
(RNS) — It seems like the women of Scripture are having a moment leading up to Easter (April 21), celebrated by many Christians as the day they believe Jesus rose from the dead.
ECFA ousts Chicago-area megachurch Harvest Bible Chapel
By Emily McFarlan Miller — April 18, 2019
CHICAGO (RNS) — The Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, a Christian financial watchdog group, has terminated the membership of Harvest Bible Chapel.
Chrissy Metz on ‘Breakthrough’: Everything happens as it should
By Emily McFarlan Miller — April 16, 2019
(RNS) — The 'This Is Us' actress said she 'wholeheartedly' believes in miracles, including the one a doctor says occurred in the life of a boy whose true story is depicted in the movie, releasing for Easter.
After ‘challenging times,’ Moody Bible Institute inaugurates new president
By Emily McFarlan Miller — April 9, 2019
CHICAGO (RNS) — Students, faculty from Moody and neighboring institutions, previous presidents and other guests gathered Friday (April 5) as Mark Jobe was installed as the 10th president of the historic Christian institution founded 133 years ago by evangelist D.L. Moody.
‘Only God can do that’: How Nebraskans are reconciling faith and flooding
By Emily McFarlan Miller — April 8, 2019
LINCOLN, Neb. (RNS) — Here’s a look at how a few Nebraska communities — Christian, Yazidi and Ponca — are reconciling their faiths with the devastating floods that have swept across the Midwest.
Churches and other faith-based groups lend a hand after historic Nebraska floods
By Emily McFarlan Miller — March 29, 2019
OMAHA, Neb. (RNS) — Local churches and national faith-based disaster relief groups — along with state and federal officials — are stepping in to lend a hand with recovery after floodwaters raged across the Midwest earlier this month.
How the White House is courting evangelicals on its Israeli-Palestinian peace plan
By Emily McFarlan Miller — March 27, 2019
JERUSALEM (RNS) — A March 7 meeting at the White House is just one of a series of meetings, dinners, lunches and coffees the Trump administration has had with evangelical leaders as it prepares to release its peace plan.
LifeWay Christian Resources to close all stores in 2019
By Emily McFarlan Miller — March 20, 2019
(RNS) — LifeWay Christian Resources announced Wednesday (March 20) it will close all of its brick-and-mortar stores this year.
Most US Christians find Trump signing Bibles inappropriate: poll
By Emily McFarlan Miller — March 20, 2019
(RNS) — A Morning Consult poll shows 65 percent of Christians in the U.S. found the president signing Bibles to be inappropriate.
Pompeo: All faiths will have ‘something to say’ on forthcoming peace plan
By Emily McFarlan Miller — March 19, 2019
(RNS) — The U.S. secretary of state’s remarks came Monday (March 18) during a controversial phone briefing as he was leaving for a five-day trip to Beirut, Jerusalem and Kuwait City.
ECFA suspends Chicago-area megachurch Harvest Bible Chapel
By Emily McFarlan Miller — March 18, 2019
CHICAGO (RNS) — The Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability has suspended Harvest Bible Chapel, the Chicago-area megachurch that recently fired its founding pastor, James MacDonald, amid allegations of financial impropriety and domineering behavior.
The ’Splainer: What happened at the United Methodist General Conference?
By Emily McFarlan Miller — March 7, 2019
(RNS) — What does the Traditional Plan actually do, and what happens now? Let us ’Splain …
A fresh take on Lent from Jewish New Testament professor Amy-Jill Levine
By Emily McFarlan Miller — March 7, 2019
(RNS) — 'If I’m not a believer in Jesus, and I think these are fabulous stories, how much more so should somebody who’s a Christian find extraordinary meaning in them?' Vanderbilt Divinity School Professor Amy-Jill Levine says of the stories of Holy Week.
