The face of Christianity in America has been co-opted by a faith that is individualistic, self-oriented, exclusivist and entrepreneurial, Marcus Borg writes at Patheos.com:
Can we learn to love our enemies, even the evildoers who are part of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)?The Rev. Philip DeVaull,
From the Huffington Post: The city of Rochester, New York will kick off a program on Saturday aimed at improving relations between community members and
What makes for a successful sermon? Keep it to eight minutes or less, and leave politics out, says the Rev. J. Perry Smith, a retired
I’m not sure I can recall a piece in the Onion that more closely mirrored reality than this one. (How many aspects of your church’s youth room are depicted here?)
Women clergy are more likely to lead small congregations than large ones, but Adelle Banks of Religion News Service notes that the “stained glass ceiling”
The Rev. Giles Fraser takes on humanist Richard Dawkins, a proponent of eugenics in certain situations. Dawkins has written: “If you can breed cattle for
From the Arizona Republic:
From Religion News Service: He was a minister to monsters. That’s what Tim Townsend writes of Henry Gerecke, the unassuming Lutheran pastor from Missouri who
Giles Fraser notes in the Guardian that “the history of religious belief is a history of horrendous violence: intolerance of others, burnings and lynchings, religious