Conservative Christians praise Trump’s anti-abortion record but say he’s stopped short of the goal
United States AP For conservative, anti-abortion Christians, former President Donald Trump delivered in four years what no other Republican before him had been able to do: A conservative majority US Supreme Court that would go on to overturn Roe v Wade, a Holy Grail of the movement. With abortion rights now controlled by each state, rather than […]
Charles Stanley, influential US Baptist preacher, dies at 90
Atlanta, US AP Charles Stanley, a prominent televangelist who once led the Southern Baptist Convention, died Tuesday at his home in Atlanta at age 90, In Touch Ministries announced. No cause of death was announced. Born in rural Dry Fork, Virginia, Stanley was senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Atlanta for 50 years. The […]
New Tim Keller Center for Apologetics hopes to help churches reach a changing country
United StatesRNS Visiting houses of worship in the United States, you can’t help but see empty pews, giving the impression that organized religion in the United States is in trouble. Increasingly, those who study church attendance and related matters are doing the math: In a recent study that projects what faith in America might look like in […]
Jack Hayford, prominent Pentecostal pastor in Southern California, has died
United StatesRNS Rev Jack Hayford, a popular Pentecostal leader and pioneer of the megachurch movement, often regarded as a “pastor to pastors,” died on Sunday (8th January) at age 88. Hayford died peacefully in his San Fernando Valley home in Southern California, according to a statement from The Church on the Way, a church in Sherman Oaks […]
Cruel or harmless? US pastors mixed on Republican migrant transports
United StatesAP As Republican governors ramp up their high-profile transports of migrants to Democratic-run jurisdictions, the practice is getting a mixed reaction from Christian faith leaders – many of whom, especially evangelicals, have supported GOP candidates by large numbers in recent elections. Some depict the actions as inhumanely exploiting vulnerable people for political ends, while others say […]
$US100 million US media campaign depicts human side of Jesus in outreach to sceptics
RNS A $US100 million media campaign in the US is attempting to attract people who are sceptical about Christianity but may relate to Jesus by highlighting his upbringing as a homeless, bullied son of a teenage mother. The He Gets Us campaign, which launched in mid-March, is an initiative of The Signatry, a Christian foundation […]
New website offers resources for US churches responding to coronavirus
RNS A new website guiding churches and ministry leaders as they respond to the coronavirus pandemic was launched Thursday as a partnership between two Wheaton College institutions — the Billy Graham Center and the Humanitarian Disaster Institute — as well as Saddleback Church in California, led by pastor Rick Warren. “Churches often don’t know what […]
Wheaton mental health summit remembers Jarrid Wilson’s “legacy of hope”
Wheaton, Illinois, USRNS The day pastor and mental health advocate Jarrid Wilson died was the day organisers began planning a one-day evangelical Christian summit about pastors and mental health. Wilson, a pastor at Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside, California, spent his life advocating for mental health through his non-profit, Anthem of Hope. He shared openly […]
Most US Christians find Trump signing Bibles inappropriate: poll
RNS If Donald Trump were the Pope or another Christian leader, the majority of US Christians likely wouldn’t have minded that he signed a Bible. Only 39 per cent of Christians in the US think it would be inappropriate for a pastor, priest or Christian leader to sign the cover of a Bible. Similarly, 35 […]
ESSAY: THERE ARE NO REAL EVANGELICALS. ONLY IMAGINED ONES
US history professor KRISTIN KOBES DU MEZ, in an article published by Religion News Service, writes about the, at times fraught, debate over the meaning of the word ‘evangelical’…