Sarah Pulliam Bailey
Lutherans elect female presiding bishop
What started as just another church assembly turned into a historic one for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, as members elected Elizabeth Eaton the denomination’s first female presiding ...
Lutherans elect Elizabeth Eaton first female presiding bishop of ELCA
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...Jean Bethke Elshtain, 72, Christian ethicist
Christian ethicist Jean Bethke Elshtain, a scholar at the University of Chicago who shaped national conversations on war and peace, died August 11 at age 72.
...Insurance gap looms for small churches
An effort to tweak President Obama’s health-care reform bill to fill a gap for church health insurance plans could fail because of Republicans’ insistence on repealing the law.
...Zambian chief touts adult circumcision
Jonathan Eshiloni Mumena will eagerly tell you about his ivory Star of David ring and the Texas flag on his tie....
Obama issues final rules on contraceptive exemption
The Obama administration has issued final rules for religious groups for its controversial contraception mandate, maintaining its position on who qualifies for religious exemption and allowing no c...
Anglican bishops abandon fight over gay marriage
Bishops in the Church of England, who had strenuously opposed a bid to allow same-sex marriage, have signaled that they won’t try to derail the bill after it received an overwhelming vote of suppor...
‘Ex-gay’ group closes as its president apologizes
Exodus International, a group that billed itself as “the oldest and largest Christian ministry dealing with faith and homosexuality,” announced June 19 that it was shutting its doors.
...City plans to bury bodies in Gosnell case
Despite repeated requests from religious leaders and antiabortion activists, city officials in Philadelphia plan to cremate and bury the 47 bodies recovered from the office of abortion provide...
Republicans retool for evangelical outreach
Do Republicans have an evangelical problem in a party that’s been both derided and heralded as God’s Official Party?
...Obama, evangelicals meet on religious concerns
President Obama formally extended his ear to evangelicals ahead of
the 2012 election, meeting with top leaders of the National Association
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