As the United States Supreme Court gets ready to hear the Hobby Lobby v. Conestoga Wood case, which challenges the contraception access mandate in the
In Culture News from Rolling Stone, Bill Gates shares his perspective on God, faith and his own religious practice:
Religion professor S. Brent Plate offers interesting perspective on the importance of stuff to our religious understanding. From Huffington Post:
From the San Diego Gay & Lesbian News:
From NBCnews.com: One in five Americans say religion does not play an important role in their lives, a new NBC/WSJ journal poll shows – the
Everyday nine churches in the US close their doors for good. With that statistic ringing in her ears, the Rev. Angie Mabry-Nauta, a Minister of Word and Sacrament in the Reformed Church in America, went to worship on her congregation’s last day.
We hear a lot about how our congregations are not museums, but congregations can learn from some small local history museums near Boston have reinvented themselves, creating sustainable institutions that are going against two decades of decline for museums nationwide.
Sunrise Children’s Services, which shelters and feeds more than 2,000 abused and neglected children every year, is facing a $7 million budget shortfall caused by the Kentucky Baptist Convention in order to prevent Sunrise from hiring gay people.
Episcopal bishops against gun violence have a new web site according to a Tweet from Bishop Nick Knisely @wnknisely The Bishop’s against Gun violence website
Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori spoke at the JCPA Plenum about the prospects for peace in the middle east