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United Methodist conference sells land back to Native people
Though the electricity was turned off in all buildings on the site, visitors arriving at Crystal Springs camp on September 12 for its official decommissioning were embraced by the sacred power of t...
From luxury stays to ‘champing,’ churches adopt pandemic-era Airbnb models
After the death of its founding pastor a few years ago, membership at Cullen Missionary Baptist Church in Houston took a nosedive....
Albert Raboteau Jr., influential Black religion scholar, dies at 78
Albert Raboteau Jr., the “godfather of Afro-Religious studies,” died from complications related to Lewy body dementia on September 18. He was 78....
Cho Yong-gi, Korean founder of world's largest megachurch, dies at 85
The founder of one of the world’s largest megachurches has died, according to news reports from Korea....
PNBC president Timothy Stewart dies at 64
Timothy Stewart, the first international president of the Progressive National Baptist Convention, has died, his denomination announced....
Job scrapes for answers (Job 1:1, 2:1-10)
It is as if every person who asks why bad things happen to good people takes a potsherd and starts scraping.
Have Steve Jobs and his gadgets made us less human?
It’s possible he created more problems than he solved.
Albert J. Raboteau changed both American religious studies and African American studies
He was among the first to ask, What is religion for a people birthed in the cradle of chattel slavery?
When Mennonites were settlers
John Eicher’s history exposes European Mennonite complicity in Native dispossession.
Living and leading from our mortality
“Yearning for life is a part of what it means to be human.”
October 24, Ordinary 30B (Mark 10:46-52)
More than a miracle story, this is a story of a call.
Who is welcome at the communion table?
Maybe the grace experienced in the sacrament precedes belief.
Watching The Green Knight and Nine Days on the big screen
Both movies made me grateful for directors with risky, new visions—and the space to enjoy them.
An evangelical Christian argument for reparations
Duke Kwon and Gregory Thompson want to talk about theft.
How a Serbian Orthodox congregation in Kansas City offers hospitality beyond the liturgy
At Thelma’s Kitchen, every table is a holy table and every guest a living icon.
A psalm of waiting as the pandemic continues
All plans feel like grass withering in the sun these days.
October 17, Ordinary 29B (Job 38:1-7, 34-41)
I don’t want to hear any more from Eliphaz, Bildad, or Zophar. I want answers.