Emily McFarlan Miller
Beyoncé’s new visual album draws from religious imagery
Beyoncé’s visual album Black Is King, released July 31 on Disney+, brings to life the music of her 2019 album The Lion King: The Gift.
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ELCA presiding bishop’s neon sign goes viral
As churches closed to slow the spread of COVID-19, Elizabeth Eaton, the presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, began offering weekly video messages from her home.
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New survey: people are reading the Bible less during the pandemic
People may be reading the news and “doomscrolling” through social media during the coronavirus pandemic.
But what they don’t appear to be reading is the Bible.
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International apologist Ravi Zacharias dies at 74
Popular Christian evangelist and apologist Ravi Zacharias died May 19 at age 74, a few months after being diagnosed with cancer.
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Churches go back to the future with drive-in worship services
When it came time to pass the peace at Pathway Baptist Church, senior pastor Mike Donald didn’t hesitate.
“Everybody, wave to the right,” Donald said.
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Comedians take on Christian film industry in film festival debut
It has all the ingredients of a faith-based blockbuster: an astronaut who finds God after she’s pushed to her limits. It also has space monsters.
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LGBTQ student joins suit against seminary
For Nathan Brittsan, it was his own “mini dark night of the soul.” Days into his first quarter as a student at Fuller Theological Seminary, Brittsan was expelled.
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Federal judge sides with faith-based group on refugees
A federal judge in Maryland has blocked President Donald Trump’s recent executive order allowing state and local officials to refuse refugee resettlement.
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George Clements, noted Catholic priest, dies at 87
George Clements, a civil rights activist whose life was turned into a made-for-TV movie after he became the first Catholic priest to adopt a child, died November 25 at age 87.
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‘Safe harbor’ offered to LGBTQ Methodists
The five bishops of the Western Jurisdiction of the United Methodist Church have declared their churches a “safe harbor” for LGBTQ clergy.
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One year before election, Christian leaders cross divides to call for respect
November 3 marked exactly one year until the 2020 US presidential election.
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Christian aid groups vow to stay in Syria
Last month, the pastor of a Kurdish Christian church in northeastern Syria gathered his congregation to decide whether to leave or stay as Turkish forces pressed into the region after US troops had...
Is Hinn renouncing prosperity gospel?
Prominent televangelist Benny Hinn has captured headlines recently for seemingly renouncing the prosperity gospel on which he built his ministry.
...Nuns and Nones helps millennials find surprise soul mates
The Dominican sisters sat in silence, eyes closed, palms upturned, couches and chairs pushed together into a circle in the room at the Dominican Center at Marywood in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
...Amy Butler leaves Riverside Church
Amy Butler, the first female pastor to lead the Riverside Church in New York City, is leaving the historic progressive church....
Hispanic evangelical group offers churches’ help in housing migrant children
The National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference is launching a campaign to offer aid to immigrant children held in detention centers at the border.
UCC endorses Green New Deal
The denomination helped launch the environmental justice movement in the 1980s and more recently was an early leader in divesting from fossil fuels.
Rachel Held Evans, Christian writer and speaker, dies at age 37
Evans’s books A Year of Biblical Womanhood, Searching for Sunday, and Inspired traced the evolution of her faith.
UMC court ruling upholds restrictions on LGBTQ clergy and couples
In a separate ruling, the Judicial Council upheld an exit plan that allows churches to leave the denomination with their property.
LifeWay Christian stores to close by end of 2019
The Southern Baptist publishing arm, which has had disputes with authors and artists over content in the past, will focus on digital sales.