Over at the Lutheran, the magazine of our communion partner, the ELCA; they’re asking “Has God forgotten how to call young people?” Drawing on research
Sainsbury’s, a British grocery chain has released a Christmas TV commercial that has gone viral, set during the First World War, showing the Christmas Day
Dave Albertson says that the from the time of St. Paul down to the present, the church is a bourgeois institution. So the decline of the church is tied directly to the decline of the middle class.
In these final few days prior to the mid-term elections, PewResearch looks into the demographics of those least likely to vote. They are younger, more
A Presbyterian asks Roman Catholics a questions that should be asked of all denominations: how well does the Church care for divorced (and divorcing) persons?
The Church has dealt with the issue of how to respond to infectious disease before, from the 1919 flu epidemic to swine flu. Today’s concerns
Nothing in the Bible justifies deregulation of gun sales and ownership, according to a panel of religious activists who spoke this week at the Religion
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:
If by “Christian rock band” you mean repetitively parroting pop-culture with theologically homogenized lyrics then, no, U2 is not a “Christian rock band.” If you mean a band that takes a more complex view of faith and life, then that’s something else. Maybe what you have is a rock band peopled by Christians.