Talking MLK, two US scholars offer antidote to partisanship
Washington, DCRNS Panelists Robert P. George, left, and Cornel West embrace after a discussion on the life and legacy of Rev Martin Luther King, Jr, on 29th May, 2018. PICTURE: Adelle M Banks/RNS The right-leaning Robert P George and the left-leaning Cornel West may not agree ideologically, but the two intellectuals came to the nation’s […]
THE INTERVIEW: MIROSLAV VOLF AND THE THEOLOGY OF JOY
ADELLE M BANKS, of Religion News Service, speaks to US-based theologian Miroslav Volf about joy, how it’s different from happiness and what the Bible says about it…
THE INTERVIEW: JONATHAN WILSON-HARTGROVE ON HOW AMERICAN CHRISTIANS CAN BREAK FREE FROM ‘SLAVEHOLDER RELIGION’
In an interview first published on Religion News Service, JONATHAN MERRIT speaks with writer and preacher Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove about his new book, Reconstructing the Gospel: Finding Freedom From Slaveholder Religion…
CASTING THE NET: MONERGISM
DAVID ADAMS finds the world’s largest online directory of Reformed theology…
Pope shakes up Vatican by replacing conservative doctrinal chief
RNS/Reuters Newly elected Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Muller of Germany arrives during a consistory ceremony led by Pope Francis in St Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican in February, 2014. PICTURE: Reuters/Alessandro Bianchi In a major shake-up of the Vatican’s administration, Pope Francis replaced Catholicism’s top theologian, a conservative German cardinal who has been at odds with the pontiff’s […]
THEOLOGY: CAN A CONTROVERSIAL LATIN AMERICAN MOVEMENT SPEAK TO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH TODAY?
G JEFFERY MACDONALD, of Religion News Service, reports from the US…
BOOKS: A WELL-STRUCTURED EXPLORATION OF INNOVATION
DARREN CRONSHAW reads a book that goes “beyond the rhetoric” when it comes to innovation within the church – and beyond…
Canadian study finds churches with conservative theology still growing
RNS Canadian researchers are revisiting a hotly debated sociological question: Why do some churches decline while others succeed? Since the 1960s, overall membership in mainline Protestant Christian churches has been dropping in both the US and Canada. But some congregations have continued to grow, and a team of researchers believes it now knows why. It’s the conservative […]
BOOKS: NEW APPROACHES TO THE TEACHING OF THEOLOGY
DARREN CRONSHAW says Les Ball’s Transforming Theology is an “essential read” for members of theological faculty’s and others interested in higher education…