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Church of England to allow gay bishops -- sort of
LONDON (RNS) The Church of England has issued a set of "legal
guidelines" that pave the way for openly gay clergy to become bishops --...
Lesbian minister to face Methodist church trial
(RNS) United Methodists will begin a trial Tuesday (June 21) against a
Wisconsin minister who's accused of breaking church rules by celebrating...
Vam Impe leaves TBN over 'Chrislam' remarks
(RNS) Jack Van Impe, a popular End Times broadcaster, has ended his
decades-long run on Trinity Broadcasting Network after a dispute over...
Deeper history: Ministry in the 21st century
"We have rejected much of our immediate [evangelical] past," says Josh Carney of his church, University Baptist Church in Waco, Texas. Looking to older traditions, "we found that some of our objections had already been addressed."
Some angles on the binding of Isaac
Violence. Danger. Fear. Trust. Betrayal. Salvation. Ethics. They're all invoked in the story of the binding of Isaac. Here are a couple different points of entry into this difficult passage.
Real ____ would never do that!
I just returned from a glorious five days
spent motorcycling through Washington and Oregon. We crossed the...
Grief without stages
The notion that grief moves through some kind of process toward resolution owes more of a debt to American optimism than to Christian hope.
Oregon strips faith-healing parents of legal defenses
PORTLAND, Ore. (RNS) Gov. John Kitzhaber has signed a new law that
removes the remnants of Oregon's legal protection for parents who rely...
Left-leaning Christians to rally around 'Wild Goose'
DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) It's summer. It's hot. It's the South.
That must mean it's time for an old-fashioned camp meeting....
Rowan Williams sparks a political row in England
CANTERBURY, England (RNS) Nearly a millennium ago, four unruly knights
crossed the English Channel from France and confronted the archbishop of...
Lutheran World Federation agrees to dialogue with Roman Catholics and Mennonites
Geneva, June 17 (ENInews)-- At a meeting in Geneva that concluded on 14
June, The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) Council approved plans for...
The tug of a prayer chain
Last spring I helped the church
I was in the process of leaving prepare for its 100th anniversary celebration....
The Board of Ordained Ministry as social media police
Jeremy Smith at Hacking Christianity has written a post...
Canon and Creed, by Robert W. Jenson
When Westminster John Knox Press launched the Interpretation commentary series in 1982 with Walter Brueggemann's provocative volume on the book of Genesis, readers encountered the strange new ...
Baptists support legalization but not `amnesty'
(RNS) Southern Baptists adopted a resolution Wednesday (June 15) that
supports a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants but clearly
states they reject "amnesty."...
Black churches push prostate cancer awareness
(RNS) Thomas A. Farrington isn't looking for cards or a tie this
Father's Day. What he really wants, he says, is for other black men...
Alabama immigration law called nation’s ‘meanest’
A new Alabama law that makes it a crime to offer rides to
undocumented immigrants is the "meanest" immigration law in the country,...
Rembrandt on Jesus
Traveling to Paris or
Philadelphia this summer, or Detroit this fall? You may want to consider taking
in the exhibit on "Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus."...
The pointless ethanol subsidy
On Tuesday, the Senate rejected a measure that would eliminate...