More than half of female clergy in the Presbyterian Church USA have reported experiencing discrimination on the basis of gender, according to a recently released survey.
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary has voted to honor one of its most visible alumni, notable author and pastor Charles Stanley, with an endowed chair in their evangelism school.
Some 15% of black and evangelical pastors have walked away from the profession in the last decade and their top reason for doing so is a “change in calling” followed by church conflict. And for many of those who remain, the job often feels overwhelming, a new survey from Lifeway Research shows.
The spiritual head of Eastern Orthodox Christians called on religious and political leaders to fight climate change during a visit to the US capital on Monday.
Ratona Stokes-Robinson, a pastor in the African Methodist Episcopal Church who was appointed to lead St. James AME Church in Thorofare, New Jersey, in June, is still waiting to preach her first sermon from the pulpit as congregants have kept her locked out of the church building because of her sex, pastors in the denomination say.
Pastor Andy Stanley of Atlanta’s North Point Community Church reflected on his past struggles with a “broken” relationship with his father, evangelist Charles Stanley, and offered biblical advice for restoring fractured relationships.
While most young people ages 13 to 25 say they are religious or spiritual, a majority have no formal ties with any particular religious community and are choosing instead to create self-driven pathways of faith for themselves using multiple religious and non-religious sources, according to a new study from the Springtide Research Institute reveals.
Liberty University is the subject of a horrifying ProPublica report in which multiple former students and one former administrator detail a culture of
NASHVILLE (BP) – Pastors faced increased stress during the COVID-19 pandemic, as churches were frequently forced to adapt overnight. More felt their role was overwhelming at times, yet very few pastors decided to actually leave the ministry in recent years.
Standing 6-feet-tall, Jessie Roseberry of Indiana, said she recounts the moment when she first fell in love, about a decade ago, when she was on her Christain College campus and she locked eyes with someone “amazingly” taller than her, Eric — a 6-foot-7-inch tall man, who would later become a pastor, her best friend and then her husband.
In his new book, The Case for Heaven: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for Life After Death, Lee Strobel uses research on near-death experiences, philosophy and religion, to make a compelling, rational case for life after death, heaven and hell.
