Church schism: After years of loud debate, conservatives quietly split from United Methodist Church
EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER, of Religion News Service, reports that after decades of rancorous debate over the ordination and marriage of LGBTQ United Methodists, a schism finally came “without fanfare, but full of hope, faith, and perseverance”…
Like that new church worship song? Chances are, it will be gone soon
United StatesRNS The most popular worship song in churches these days is Build My Life from Bethel Music, the megachurch-based worship music hit machine based in Northern California. Sitting at number one on the top 100 worship song chart from Christian Copyright Licensing International, which licenses worship music, Build My Life, first released in 2016, […]
Essay: Tigray in Ethiopia was an environmental success story – but the war is undoing decades of regreening
In an article published on The Conversation, HENRIKE SCHULTE TO BÜHNE, DOUG WEIR, JAN NYSSEN, and TEKLEHAYMANOT G WELDEMICHEL, look at the impact of Ethiopia’s war on the environment…
Postcards: Visitors trickle back, but climbing mecca Nepal seeks more
GOPAL SHARMA and MANOJ KUMAR, of Reuters, report on hopes for the recovery of Nepal’s tourism sector…
UK church holds ‘Wash Away Your Sin With Gin’ fundraiser
Norwich, UK Scenes of teddy bears parachuting down from church towers and experiments with paper planes to see how far they can fly when thrown from a high point are just some of the ways churches are enlivening local community life in the UK as they look to increasingly innovative ways of fundraising. St […]
US Supreme Court rules against Boston in Christian flag case
Washington DC, USAP A unanimous US Supreme Court ruled Monday that Boston violated the free speech rights of a conservative activist when it refused his request to fly a Christian flag on a flagpole outside City Hall. Justice Stephen Breyer wrote for the court that the city discriminated against the activist, Harold Shurtleff, because of […]