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Where is the Church on #MeToo?
By Autumn Miles — January 18, 2018
(RNS) — The Church has operated under a cloud of shame and silence for decades.
There’s room for compromise on FEMA helping houses of worship
By Mark Silk — January 15, 2018
(RNS) — And it can be found in pending federal legislation.
Our church was named for Robert E. Lee — here is how we changed it
By Doug Cumming — January 10, 2018
(RNS) — It has been, under the surface, a re-litigating of Lee’s terms of surrender at Appomattox. (Commentary)
After a century, the largest Catholic church in North America is complete
By Sharon Samber — December 8, 2017
(RNS) — The glass mosaic atop the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception is the final architectural element of the church, a shrine to Mary visited by nearly 1 million people a year.
A funeral director says many churches (unknowingly) promote a ‘death negative’ narrative
By Jonathan Merritt — November 10, 2017
Caleb Wilde says many churches teach that "death, and our mortality, is at heart both shameful and has little to no redeeming value."
How do you have faith after Sutherland Springs, Texas?
By Jeffrey Salkin — November 7, 2017
What do Christians know that Jews have forgotten? Look to Sutherland Springs, Texas.
Harriet Tubman’s Canadian church seeks help for repairs
By Adelle M. Banks — November 3, 2017
(RNS) — The 11 members of Salem Chapel have started a crowdsourcing campaign to shore up the building, which sits just north of Niagara Falls.
Archaeologists say rebuilding Jonah’s mosque should wait
By Gilgamesh Nabeel — November 3, 2017
(RNS) — Now that ISIS has been driven from Mosul in Iraq, Muslim traditionalists say it is imperative to start reconstructing the Mosque of the Prophet Jonah, which had marked the site since the 12th century, along with the ruins of a seventh-century Christian church.
ISO better church models for manhood and womanhood
By Julie Roys — October 26, 2017
(RNS) — 'Over three decades of ministry, I have seen both men and women struggle to live up to uni-dimensional caricatures of both hyper-masculinized manhood and hyper-feminized womanhood,' writes Julie Roys.
LGBT-affirming Christians are more emboldened than ever
By Jacob Lupfer — October 20, 2017
(RNS) — 'A spate of recent events suggests that LGBT-affirming voices within religious communities are more emboldened and confident than ever,' writes Jacob Lupfer. (COMMENTARY)
Commuting to Nairobi, the train becomes a church
By Lauren Markoe — October 2, 2017
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — Self-styled preachers unofficially turn two coaches into church each day, ministering to a mobile congregation that might not otherwise attend a service.
Three days after deadly shooting, Nashville church holds first service
By Natalie Allison — September 28, 2017
ANTIOCH, Tenn. (USA Today) — Services went on as they do every Wednesday at 7 p.m., though the church is still figuring out what to do with an auditorium in disarray and the cluster of reporters that continued to hover.
Eugene Peterson on Donald Trump and the state of American Christianity
By Jonathan Merritt — July 11, 2017
The 84-year-old bestselling author says, "Donald Trump is the enemy" and "megachurches are not churches."
How Facebook is like church, according to founder Mark Zuckerberg
By Emily McFarlan Miller — June 28, 2017
CHICAGO (RNS) Zuckerberg made the analogy last week as he announced the social network's new mission at its first Facebook Communities Summit: "Bring the world closer together."
With first solo CD in 9 years, CeCe Winans keeps singing – and pastoring
By Adelle M. Banks — June 4, 2017
(RNS) Her album includes the sounds of big bands and Motown as well as tunes aimed at millennials — like those who attend Nashville Life Christian Church, the nondenominational congregation she and her husband co-pastor in Tennessee.
