More than a year after ruling narrowly that companies with religious objections can’t be forced to pay for employees’ contraceptives, the Supreme Court faced a chorus of cries from religious…
A. Craig Settlage, former director for ELCA mission support, died Oct. 21 at the age of 73. In 1988, Settlage became director for candidacy and later was associate executive director…
Christians shouldn’t attend same-sex weddings, even of their own children, because it signals “moral approval” of the union, said Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky.,…
The magazine’s March issue will focus on welcoming. We say “all are welcome,” but what does that really mean? How does your church welcome visitors and members? Do you have…
When writer Tom Roberts of the National Catholic Reporter interviewed Sister Joan Chittister, a Benedictine nun who speaks her mind to her church, she said “it’s time” to open the…
For a story in an upcoming issue of this magazine, we want to know: Are you a pastor or church worker who supplements your income with additional jobs? If so,…
Lutheran Campus Ministry programs are uniquely positioned to create and hold space for hard, important conversations like confronting racism, said Kate Reuer Welton, campus pastor at the University of Minnesota–Twin…
In an effort to continue understanding the complexity and implications of racism, ELCA Presiding Bishop Elizabeth A. Eaton will be featured in a live webcast Jan. 14, at 8 p.m. (CDT)….
Most Americans see a conflict between the findings of science and the teachings of religion, but “see” is the operative word in a Pew Research Center report issued in October….
On Oct. 21, a seventh church in St. Louis was the latest in a rash of arson fires that had been directed predominantly at African-American congregations. But the Shrine of…
Drawing on 50 years of national and international dialogue, Lutherans and Catholics on Oct. 30 made available “Declaration on the Way: Church, Ministry and Eucharist,” an ecumenical document that marks…
Some male pastors of the Seventh-day Adventist Church are changing their credentials in an act of solidarity. The protest has occurred in several U.S. states after the global denomination voted…
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