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1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. United Methodists Officially Approve Traditional Plan, Keep Ban on Gay Clergy, Same-Sex Marriage

A special session of the United Methodist Church decided Tuesday (Feb. 26) to strengthen the denomination's ban on the ordination and marriage of LGBTQ people. Delegates to the General Conference, the ...

Created on 27 February 2019

8. In Surprise Move, Methodists Reject Plan That Would Allow LGBT Clergy

In a surprise, the plan recommended by the United Methodist Church's Council of Bishops was rejected Monday (Feb. 25) by the denomination's decision-making body. The so-called One Church Plan did not pass ...

Created on 26 February 2019

9. Abuse Is a Major Reason People Leave the Church; Now Willow Creek Association Wants to Help

There are a lot of abuse survivors who don't feel safe in church — and a lot of abusers who do, the Rev. Dale Ingraham of Curtis Baptist Bible Church in Campbell, N.Y., told a room of Willow Creek Association ...

Created on 01 February 2019

10. Ex-Megachurch Staffer Indicted for Indecency With a Child Involving Sexual Contact

A former associate children's minister at The Village Church, a Dallas-area evangelical megachurch, has been indicted for indecency with a child involving sexual contact. Matt Tonne was indicted by the ...

Created on 28 January 2019

11. After Scandal, Willow Creek Celebrates Holy Spirit Christmas

Warm white lights twinkled on the artificial evergreen trees and garlands decorating the auditorium. The worship team sang upbeat Christmas carols "Go Tell It on the Mountain" and "Hark! The Herald Angels ...

Created on 20 December 2018

12. 'The Message' Author Eugene Peterson Under Hospice Car

Eugene Peterson, the bestselling author of "The Message" and longtime pastor praised as a "shepherd's shepherd," is moving into hospice and receiving palliative medical care. Peterson, 85, was hospitalized ...

Created on 15 October 2018

13. How They Turned Tom Cruise Into Jesus Christ

At the BibleWalk wax museum in Mansfield, Ohio, visitors will find Jesus, Moses, Paul and other biblical figures. They also may find Tom Cruise. BibleWalk, a collection of more than 300 wax figures, is ...

Created on 09 October 2018

14. How a Megachurch Moves on From Sexual Scandals

Heather Larson stood before the congregation in August at Willow Creek Community Church's main campus in Chicago's northwest suburbs, as the church gathered for a weeknight "family meeting." She recalled ...

Created on 01 October 2018

15. Is America Actually a Christian Nation?

The biggest reaction Eric Metaxas got from students this week at Judson University in suburban Elgin was when Judson President Gene Crume introduced him as one of the writers and voices on "VeggieTales," ...

Created on 28 September 2018

16. Is the Second-Largest Protestant Denomination About to Split?

Documents filed with the United Methodist Church's top court are shedding first light on specifics of long-awaited proposals to avoid schism in the second-largest Protestant denomination in the United ...

Created on 19 July 2018

17. The Genesis 1:27 Reason Mr. Rogers Changed the World

There's a moment near the beginning of the documentary film "Won't You Be My Neighbor?" — as the trolley that transported millions of children to the Neighborhood of Make Believe is taken out of its box ...

Created on 13 July 2018

18. 600 United Methodists File Complaint Against Jeff Sessions

More than 600 United Methodist clergy and laypeople have signed a formal denominational complaint against fellow United Methodist Attorney General Jeff Sessions, condemning his role in the Trump administration's ...

Created on 20 June 2018

19. UMC Bishops: Conferences, Pastors Should Decide on LGBT Clergy

The bishops of the United Methodist Church have endorsed a plan that would allow individual pastors and regional bodies to make their own decisions on whether to perform same-sex weddings and ordain LGBT ...

Created on 08 May 2018

20. Willow Creek to Examine New Allegations Against Bill Hybels

As the allegations against former Willow Creek Community Church senior pastor Bill Hybels mount, his congregation is trying to cope—spiritually and practically. During services Sunday (April 22), Steve ...

Created on 24 April 2018