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Hispanic Protestant landscape full of vibrant churches

Hispanic churches in the United States face unique challenges but are finding success in building community within their congregations and reaching those outside their walls.

01/25/2023 - By Aaron Earls / LifeWay

Theology lab tackles complex topics with humility

Theology Lab, a series of online discussions that began in the fall of 2022 and run through this spring, is designed as an exercise in theological formation for laypeople.

01/23/2023 - By Bob Smietana / Religion News Service

Abuse expert says church leaders have ‘utterly failed God’

Trauma expert Diane Langberg believes many church leaders have yet to reckon with the damage done to abuse survivors where churches turned a blind eye to the suffering in their midst.

01/17/2023 - By Bob Smietana / Religion News Service

Scholar applies King’s philosophy of truth in post-truth age

Martin Luther King Jr. is known as a civil rights activist, a minister and a world leader who gained the Nobel Peace Prize. King scholar Lewis V. Baldwin adds other titles: ethicist, theologian and philosopher.

01/16/2023 - By Adelle M. Banks / Religion News Service

Israel excavates ancient Pool of Siloam site

Biblical evidence from Jesus’ Judean ministry might be unearthed as Israel excavates the full Pool of Siloam, an area that has fascinated archeologists more than 150 years.

01/10/2023 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

More Americans stay away from church since pandemic

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly every congregation in the United States shut down, at least for a while. For some Americans, that was the push they needed to never come back to church.

01/06/2023 - By Bob Smietana / Religion News Service

Churchgoers value time with God but practices vary

Most Protestant churchgoers say they spend time alone with God at least daily, but there’s a range in what they do in that time and what resources they use, a Lifeway Research study reveals.

01/03/2023 - By Marissa Postell / Lifeway Research

Ten most significant religion stories of 2022 named

Religion News Service editors selected what they considered the 10 most significant faith-related stories in 2022.

01/03/2023 - By Staff / Religion News Service

Sunday school looks different since COVID

Sunday school, adult forums and other Christian formation classes, already threatened by declines in worship attendance, have been further challenged since COVID-19 shuttered churches and sent their services online.

01/02/2023 - By Adelle M. Banks / Religion News Service

Live animals bring spectacle, humor to Nativity scenes

David Baum, owner of the Texas Camel Corps, has spent the Christmas season traipsing all over Texas, supplying camels—as well as donkeys, ox and sheep—for live Nativity sets at churches around the state.

12/20/2022 - By Bob Smietana / Religion News Service

Most churches plan to worship together on Christmas

Christmas falls on a Sunday this year, and for most pastors, that gives them all the more reason to gather.

12/13/2022 - By Aaron Earls / LifeWay

Study says politics may determine which pew fits

When they are shopping for a new church, evangelicals go looking for another politically conservative evangelical church like the one they left, researchers say.

12/13/2022 - By Bob Smietana / Religion News Service