(RNS) — The Western church’s powerful shaping of Christianity for the past four centuries is being challenged in ways that may hold the keys to its revitalization.

(RNS) After the community backlash, the school “has been exploring ways in which it might provide reasonable accommodations for transgender students,” officials said.

PHILADELPHIA (RNS) The sole session on homosexuality was given short shrift at the World Meeting of Families by a last-minute venue change to a much smaller space.

NEW YORK (RNS) “If every gay person leaves their church because they have been treated poorly, nothing will change,” Josh Canfield said. “They still want us, and we feel called to stay.”