Nashville
Sex abuse survivors call for system-wide audit of Southern Baptist Convention
By Yonat Shimron — June 14, 2021
(RNS) — The group of eight survivors wants the convention to go beyond the review of the Executive Committee that was announced last week.
What evangelical men can learn from Amy Grant and Annie F. Downs
By Maina Mwaura — February 12, 2021
(RNS) — It's past time for evangelical men like me to learn from Christian women about leadership.
Full Ramsey Solutions Response
By RNS staff — January 15, 2021
"We are horrible people," the financial advice and media company told RNS in a sarcastic email.
Christian musician Sean Feucht brings COVID worship protest to Nashville, had no permit say health officials
By Bob Smietana — October 12, 2020
(RNS) — Despite local guidelines allowing faith groups to meet for worship, a barnstorming Christian musician played outdoors in Nashville to protest church closures.
Southern Baptist publishing arm, LifeWay, announces cuts due to COVID-19
By Yonat Shimron — April 29, 2020
(RNS) — The move comes after five consecutive weeks of steep revenue decline in the wake of the coronavirus and the expectation that sales may not rebound anytime soon.
In tornado-stricken Nashville, will we rebuild or gentrify?
By Robyn Henderson-Espinoza — March 9, 2020
(RNS) — A Nashville activist theologian who has been dubbed ‘the tornado chaplain’ is adamant that the city’s most recent disaster doesn't benefit predatory developers.
Nashville church worships in the rubble after deadly tornado
By Kristin Hall — March 9, 2020
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — 'Nashville is now primed to show the world what we’re made of,' the pastor of Mount Bethel Missionary Baptist Church told his congregants Sunday as they met in a tent on their storm-ravaged campus. And the people responded, 'Amen.'
Faith groups gear up disaster relief after deadly tornadoes in Tennessee
By Bob Smietana — March 3, 2020
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (RNS) — Faith groups are preparing to respond after killer tornadoes hit Tennessee.
Christian university says it is open to hiring non-Christian art faculty in merger
By Bob Smietana — February 5, 2020
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (RNS) — A Christian university says it is open to hiring non-Christian faculty from an art school it recently acquired. Belmont University's provost had made headlines for saying the school would not hire non-Christians.
TobyMac’s 21-year-old son, aspiring rapper Truett Foster McKeehan, dies
By Brad Schmitt, Dave Paulson, and Matthew Leimkuhler — October 25, 2019
(USA Today) — McKeehan's cause and manner of death remain under investigation, the Metro Nashville Police Department said. An autopsy will be conducted at the medical examiner's office in Nashville.
Utah Mormon official removed from local position after voyeurism arrest
By Aysha Khan — August 21, 2019
(RNS) — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has removed a high councilman from his local church position in Utah after he was charged with taking photos of a woman undressing in a Tennessee clothing store.
Prayer postcards spark debate over faith and privacy in Nashville
By Bailey Basham — March 20, 2019
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (RNS) — More than 350 churches in Nashville decided to pray for every resident of the Bible Belt city by name for 30 days. Then they sent out postcards telling people they had been prayed for. Some residents appreciated being prayed for. But others saw the prayers as an invasion of privacy.
Nashville secular group celebrates faith-free Christmas
By Bailey Basham — December 17, 2018
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (RNS) — At the 'Heathen Holidays,' Nashville's Sunday Assembly celebrates the joy of the holidays without God.
Should we live to be 500? Christians and secularists come together over transhumanism
By Emily McFarlan Miller — September 5, 2018
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (RNS) — Transhumanism is 'a conversation that calls us, that challenges us to develop a deeper theology of technology,' according to Micah Redding, director of the Christian Transhumanist Association.
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.