Sarah Pulliam Bailey
Sarah Pulliam Bailey is a national correspondent for RNS, covering how faith intersects with politics, culture and other news. She previously served as online editor for Christianity Today where she remains an editor-at-large.
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Monday’s Religion News Roundup: Comedian Evangelization * Hipster Worship * The Bible Sequel
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey — June 10, 2013
The adoption movement remains in the news as The Tennessean published three stories on the evolution of the evangelical orphan care movement in Sunday’s paper: one, two, three. Mass was held Sunday for Boston bombing victim Martin Richard on what would have been his 9th birthday. Catholic, anti-abortion Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad may have to sign […]
Activists rally to bury the bodies from Gosnell abortion trial
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey — June 7, 2013
(RNS) A spokeswoman for the Philadelphia district attorney said several people have called and tweeted requests for the bodies of babies killed by abortion provider Kermit Gosnell, but the ultimate decision will come from the medical examiner’s office.
Quiz: What do you know about Calvinism?
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey — June 6, 2013
(RNS) Southern Baptists are debating the role of Calvinism within the nation's largest Protestant denomination. Test your knowledge of Calvinism by taking a short quiz. See if your score is predestined, or if you have free will to determine your score.
Church of England drops opposition to gay marriage bill
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey — June 6, 2013
(RNS) Sensing that a move to allow same-sex marriage is all but official, bishops in the Church of England signaled they won't try to derail it, even as they remain deeply uncomfortable with it.
ELCA Lutherans elect first openly gay bishop
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey — June 3, 2013
(RNS) Observers say the election of the first openly gay Lutheran bishop in the United States is as significant as the decision to ordain women clergy, but they don't expect the decision to split the 4 million-member ELCA.
Evangelical leaders stand by pastor accused of abuse cover-up
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey — May 24, 2013
(RNS) Several leading evangelical pastors and authors have come to the defense of a pastor accused in a lawsuit for covering up sexual abuse of children.
Pastor’s tornado tweets stir up a theological debate
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey — May 23, 2013
(RNS) Popular evangelical author and speaker John Piper regularly tweets Bible verses, but two verses tweeted after the Oklahoma tornado struck some as at best insensitive and at worst bad theology.
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey — January 1, 1970
ATLANTA (RNS) A campaign to arrest an African warlord generated awareness in more ways than the effort’s co-founder Jason Russell could have ever imagined. The “Kony 2012″ campaign captured widespread attention for its push to arrest Joseph Kony, head of the Lord’s Resistance Army, which abducts and forces children to become soldiers. For a grass-roots […]
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