Essay: Mission trips are an evangelical rite of passage for US teens – but why?
CAROLINE R NAGEL, professor of geography at the University of South Carolina, finds – in an article first published on The Conversation – that today’s short-term missionaries continue a long legacy, but in a very different way…
Rehabilitating gang members: Pastors find a role ministering to young men swept up in El Salvador’s crackdown on gangs
MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ, of Associated Press, reports on the work of churches involved in rehabilitating gang members – and the impact President Nayib Bukele’s gang crackdown has had on them…
Essay: Growing pains for Arab evangelical Christians in the Middle East
DAOUD KUTTAB, in an article published on Religion News Service, looks at what a recent meeting of evangelical leaders in the Middle East revealed…
Preaching bans: Like Beth Moore, many women have had to break free to follow God’s call
BOB SMIETANA, writing for Religion News Service, reports from the US…
Essay: QAnon – the alternative religion that’s coming to your church
In an article first published on Religion News Service, KATELYN BEATTY, a former managing editor of Christianity Today and author of ‘A Woman’s Place’, looks at the rise of QAnon…
In the US, evangelical, midwestern, southern churches most likely to be meeting in person again
RNS Which churches have resumed gathering in person amid the coronavirus pandemic? Mostly evangelical Protestant churches rather than mainline Protestant and, more often, those that are located in the south or midwest, according to a new survey released on Friday by LifeWay Research, the research arm of the Southern Baptist Convention. St Ignatius Loyola Catholic Church in […]