Americans who had a positive religious experience as kids are most likely to keep the same faith as adults.
Americans who had a positive religious experience as kids are most likely to keep the same faith as adults.
“We all feel a wound in our body of Christ, knowing what’s happening to them,” said Fran Gardner-Smith.
Christmas is a time of celebrating a great mystery and wonderful sacrament of God choosing incarnation. Jesus was embodied. So are we.
The Prophet Isaiah had strong views about political issues of his day, and his words, which Catholics and others who use the Common Lectionary read over the four Sundays of Advent, are impossible to hear without applying them to politics today.
Robb Ryerse, who leads a progressive evangelical church in Arkansas, said he feels he has a moral obligation to run for office — and convince voters that being a Christian and a Democrat “isn’t an oxymoron.”
Growing up Southern Baptist in West Virginia in the 1990s and early 2000s, Anna Rollins heard one message clearly: Your body is a liability. Like many evangelical Christian women raised at a time when secular America became consumed with diet culture and evangelicalism sought to control young women through purity culture, Rollins tried to transcend her body altogether, restricting her eating and exercising obsessively.
In the past few weeks, many people across the global Anabaptist family have followed the news that the Meserete Kristos Church (MKC) will no longer host the 2028 global assembly of Mennonite World Conference (MWC), and the Meserete Kristos Seminary (MKS) has ended its formal partnership with Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS). The decision has stirred deep emotions, sparked debate and raised questions about partnership, doctrine, and the nature of unity in the global church.
