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1. Conservatives Quietly Split From United Methodist Church After Years of Loud Debate

It was a "very special Sunday," the Rev. J.J. Mannschreck explained to his congregation during the traditional service streamed online from Flushing United Methodist Church in Flushing, Michigan. The ...

Created on 03 May 2022

2. Dangerous Feminist Witchcraft Claims It Is a Form of Judaism

In a scene from a recently released movie, three older women in a small room slowly walk clockwise around a table covered in candles, chanting curses softly. A scene from the latest Macbeth remake? Not ...

Created on 28 October 2021

3. Facebook Launches New 'Prayer Posts' for Users to 'Connect to Hop

When the unfamiliar pop-up touting a new feature appeared on Robert P. Jones' Facebook, the CEO and founder of Public Religion Research Institute posted a screen grab to Twitter. "Wondering what fb algorithm ...

Created on 21 April 2021

4. Christians Support, Encourage Asian Americans at Nationwide Rallies

At events in 14 cities across the U.S., an estimated 5,000 people demonstrated in support of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Sunday (March 28) after attacks on people of Asian descent in the Atlanta ...

Created on 30 March 2021

5. Prophet, Pastor Jeremiah Johnson Ends Ministry: 'Apologizing Wasn't Enoug

Jeremiah Johnson, the self-described prophet who faced backlash from fellow evangelical Christians after publicly apologizing for prophesying former President Donald Trump would be reelected president, ...

Created on 09 March 2021

6. March for Life Goes Virtual Amid 'Heightened Pressures' on Capitol Law Enforcemen

The March for Life is going virtual this year. The move online comes as the COVID-19 pandemic "may be peaking" and amid the "heightened pressures that law enforcement officers and others are currently ...

Created on 18 January 2021

7. Barbecue Baptist Church Delivers Meals, Message and a Little Levity Amid Pandemic

Before the barbecue trailer, there was the toilet paper popemobile. With toilet paper hard to come by as stay-at-home orders took effect in many states earlier this year to flatten the curve of the coronavirus, ...

Created on 28 July 2020

8. National Survey Reveals Drop-off in Bible Reading During Pandemic

People may be reading the news and "doomscrolling" through social media during the coronavirus pandemic. But what they don't appear to be reading is the Bible. That's according to the 10th annual State ...

Created on 22 July 2020

9. Racial Slur, 'The Idiot's Guide to Kama Sutra' Led to Chaplain's Firing, Says Wheaton Coll

The Rev. Tim Blackmon allegedly referred to a colleague repeatedly by a racial slur and had The Idiot's Guide to Kama Sutra left on a female colleague's desk while he was chaplain at Wheaton College. Those ...

Created on 10 July 2020

10. United Methodists Announce Plan to Split Church Over LGBTQ Marriage, Ordination

Bishops and representatives of a number of United Methodist groups have announced a proposed agreement to split the United Methodist Church. The proposal, called the Protocol of Reconciliation & Grace ...

Created on 03 January 2020

11. Andy Savage Reportedly Starting New Church; Abuse Victim Says She Hopes He Has Repented

"Devastating news today," Jules Woodson tweeted over the weekend. "My abuser is back in the pulpit." Woodson was responding to news that Andy Savage, her former youth pastor, reportedly is planning to ...

Created on 29 October 2019

12. Christian University President Resigns After Inviting Mike Pence to Speak at Commencement

Taylor University President Paul Lowell Haines has resigned from the nondenominational Christian university a month after hosting Vice President Mike Pence as commencement speaker. Taylor's board of trustees ...

Created on 25 June 2019

13. Student Pastor Deported After Seeking Asylum in US

Despite prayer vigils, a letter-writing campaign from her church and her denomination and a petition for a stay of removal from her lawyers, a student pastor was deported this week in what the head of ...

Created on 31 May 2019

14. Judicial Council Rules UMC Will Continue Ban on Homosexuality

The United Methodist Church's top court has upheld much of the Traditional Plan approved earlier this year, continuing the global denomination's ban on the ordination and marriage of its LGBTQ members. ...

Created on 29 April 2019

15. How an AG Church Prayed a Dead Teen Back to Life

Everybody knows what it's like to suffer alongside a loved one in crisis. That includes Chrissy Metz. And, the "This Is Us" star said, that's what drew her to the role of Joyce Smith in the new movie "Breakthrough," ...

Created on 16 April 2019

16. New President Hopes to Reverse 'Challenging Times' at This Historic Christian Colleg

Sara Nimori, president of the student government at Moody Bible Institute, said students were shocked and saddened last year to hear that the school's president had resigned. J. Paul Nyquist, its former ...

Created on 10 April 2019

17. Jentezen Franklin, Other Evangelical Advisers Weigh In on Trump's Middle East Peace Pla

...  have to be 100 percent to our liking?" © 2019 Religion News Service. All rights reserved. Emily McFarlan Miller traveled to Israel and the occupied territories March 9-16 with a delegation of journalist ...

Created on 28 March 2019

18. Should Donald Trump Have Signed That Bible?

If Donald Trump were the pope or another Christian leader, the majority of U.S. Christians likely wouldn't have minded that he signed a Bible. Only 39 percent of Christians in the U.S. think it would be ...

Created on 21 March 2019

19. Mike Pompeo: People of All Faiths Will Have 'Something to Say' About Trump's Israel-Palestinian Peace Pl

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo defended his department's decision to drop the word "occupation" from its description of the Golan Heights and Palestinian territories and said people of all faiths ...

Created on 19 March 2019

20. Megachurch Suspended From Major Financial Accountability Group

The Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, a Christian financial watchdog group, has suspended Harvest Bible Chapel, a Chicago-area megachurch, after church leaders admitted "a lack of financial ...

Created on 19 March 2019