July 3, 2019

Mellott has written on a wide range of topics, including liberation for gay clergy and ethnography as a theological practice.

She is the first woman to lead the school in its 212-year history.

“Research and teaching are not simply academic exercises for me,” Walton said.

Religious diversity and participation have flourished in Cuba since the country loosened restrictions. Christians are aiding their neighbors—and testing possibilities for political dissent.

A Methodist church-based messaging platform has sent hundreds of texts to people’s phones about how to prevent Ebola transmission.

Hobgood was the Christian Church (Dis­ciples of Christ) general minister and president from 2003 to 2005, and founded the Disciples Center for Public Witness.

The oil drilling facility is 130 feet from a church and 730 feet from an elementary school, reported a local coalition fighting for regulation of such sites.

Southern Baptist Theological Seminary has acknowledged that it benefited from the slave trade. A clergy group encouraged the school to give part of its endowment to a college started by people who had been enslaved.

Botswana, like dozens of countries worldwide, inherited its law on gay sex from the British Empire. In recent years momentum has been building to repeal those laws.

Yan Xiong, who was a student leader at the 1989 demonstrations, sees Chinese people increasingly becoming disillusioned. Authorities have arrested pastors and placed more than 1 million Uighur Muslims into internment camps.