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- 1. Church Giving Down More Due to COVID-19 Than During Recession, Survey Shows
- ... s such as Christianity Today's Church Law & Tax and the NAE Financial Health initiative. RELATED: Click here for complete coverage of COVID-19 on RNS Brian Kluth, who started the State of the Plate resea ...
- Created on 22 April 2020
- 2. Why This Megachurch Is Targeting Ex-Rebels With the Government's Blessing
- Nearly 160 miles south of Bogotá, members of South America's longest-running insurgency are rediscovering religion. As part of the implementation of a 2016 peace deal, the Colombian government has permitted ...
- Created on 31 October 2018
- 3. How This Pentecostal Pastor's Son Just Earned the Highest Accolade in the World
- At a tender age, Denis Mukwege accompanied his father, a Pentecostal church pastor, as he moved around the villages of Congo's South Kivu Province praying for sick parishioners. Those experiences inspired ...
- Created on 19 October 2018
- 4. 'The Message' Author Eugene Peterson Under Hospice Care
- ... than Merritt he would perform a same-sex marriage, celebrated in the Presbyterian Church (USA), before retracting that statement. He also told RNS in an interview last year that he did not fear death. ...
- Created on 15 October 2018
- 5. This Fear Is Keeping Many Christians Home From Church
- Thousands of faithful in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are staying home from church services to avoid contracting or spreading Ebola. "We are staying in our homes. We can't go to church and worship ...
- Created on 19 September 2018
- 6. Those Who Left Church Turning to New Age, Pagan Rituals
- Amanda, a 28-year-old Los Angeles resident, used to go to church every Sunday. She still prays nightly and believes in Jesus, but now she has her own rituals. "I'll chant, or I'll go to Kundalini (yoga) ...
- Created on 30 August 2018
- 7. Professor Battles 'Serious Spiritual Warfare' as She Stands Up for #ChurchToo Victims
- ... conference, a gathering of LGBTQ evangelicals. "I know many people who are same-sex attracted but yet still believe in the traditional biblical sexual ethic, and they need our support and so I endorsed ...
- Created on 21 August 2018
- 8. Why You May Want to Reconsider That Short-Term Mission Trip
- ... , but they never really felt threatened," said spokesman Justin Warns. "A number of them said they would go again." Norman said there will always be risks in countries like Haiti and Nicaragua, where poverty ...
- Created on 16 August 2018
- 9. Report: Bishops Covered Up Decades of Priests' Sexual Abuse
- Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro has released a more than 1,300-page grand jury report detailing allegations of widespread sexual abuse of more than 1,000 children by Catholic priests in the ...
- Created on 15 August 2018
- 10. Why Are Christians So Obsessed With the Enneagram?
- "Everywhere I go, people talk about the Enneagram," said Ian Morgan Cron, co-author with Suzanne Stabile of The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery. The book has sold more than 165,000 ...
- Created on 11 July 2018
- 11. Why Single People May Worry You
- A couple of decades ago, when young adults began showing their dissatisfaction with organized religion by voting with their feet, it was fashionable for pundits to say this was happening because those ...
- Created on 28 June 2018
- 12. After His Wife and Son Were Murdered by Congregation Member, Here's How the Pastor Responded
- ... teenagers. They married in 2012. "It absolutely astounds me when I think of all the changes we have been through," he told RNS. "My youngest son is less than a year away from being a teenager. My oldest son i ...
- Created on 31 May 2018
- 13. Has the 'Judgment of God' Fallen on the SBC?
- ... " Mohler said in an interview with RNS. Mohler warned that the impact of the #MeToo movement on the denomination was just beginning and that "we're going to discover this problem is far more widespread. ...
- Created on 25 May 2018
- 14. Life in a Fishbowl: Survey Gives Voice to Pastors' Spouses
- ... production editor and a national reporter, joined RNS in 1995. An award-winning journalist, she previously was the religion reporter at the Orlando Sentinel and a reporter at The Providence Journal and ne ...
- Created on 13 September 2017
- 15. Why Singles Ministry Is Often Neglected in Many Churches
- ... counsel is informed by their reality. P. Kenneth Burns is a reporter in Baltimore where he attends Connexion Point Church. He also works in the media and the communications ministry. ...
- Created on 18 August 2016
- 16. The Top 3 Reasons Pastors Quit
- Sometimes a call from God is not enough to keep a pastor in his post. Many evangelical pastors who quit before retirement age found "another calling" either off the pulpit or out of ministry altogether. ...
- Created on 13 January 2016
- 17. Gardner C. Taylor, Dean of Black Preachers, Dies at 96
- The Rev. Gardner C. Taylor, widely considered the dean of the nation's black preachers and "the poet laureate of American Protestantism," died Sunday (April 5) after a ministerial career that spanned more ...
- Created on 07 April 2015
- 18. How Some Churches Grow Outside the Box
- ... rch, you never lose sight of the reason you were called to ministry in the first place. Jeremy Burns is a best-selling novelist and an assistant editor for Charisma Media. ...
- Created on 08 July 2014
- 19. Pastors, Avoid These 5 Traps
- ... the Beginning (Thomas Nelson, April 2013) by Richard Stearns, president of World Vision U.S. Rich Stearns is president of World Vision and author of the award-winning The Hole in Our Gospel and the upcoming ...
- Created on 28 March 2013
- 20. Report: Megachurches Thriving in Tough Economic Times
- Despite the tough economy, many of the nation’s largest churches are thriving, with increased offerings and plans to hire more staff, a new survey shows. Just 3 percent of churches with 2,000 or more attendance ...
- Created on 21 February 2013