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What Is Pentecost and Why Do Some Christians Celebrate It?
Parade· 2 days agoLearn about the origin and history of Pentecost Sunday.
Audit of past SBC renewal push forecasts 'uphill battle' to expand reach
Gannett via AOL· 15 hours agoPublished weeks before the SBC's annual meeting in Indianapolis, the white paper illustrates the...
God Inc.—Church Startups Spread Franchise Model Across U.S.
The Wall Street Journal· 1 day agoCatholic, evangelical and mainline Protestant churches in the U.S. are losing membership, in part...
From Skeptic to Promoter: Dominican Friar Explains the Power of the Rosary
National Catholic Register· 13 hours agoIn keeping with Dominican tradition, the Dominican priest combines his passion for theology and the...
Republicans need better race bait
theGrio via AOL· 4 hours agoAccording to Pew Research, most Black Protestants, Hispanic Catholics and Asian Christians do not vote Republican. Most Buddhists, Catholics, Jews,...
Fact-checking the Salem Witch Trials
The Cut· 4 hours agoWhen she was in the eighth grade, Alice Markham-Cantor discovered that she was the descendant of Martha Carrier, a woman hanged in Salem in 1692 for...
United Methodists scrap their anti-gay bans. A woman who defied them seeks reinstatement as pastor
Erie News Now Plus· 6 days agoThe UMC was the last of major mainline Protestant groups to repeal policies that excluded LGBTQ people from marriage and ministry. Religious LGBTQ people were part of the ...
‘The Student’ and ‘Brave New Words’: Teaching Teachers New Tricks
The Wall Street Journal· 3 days agoThe U.S. has the world’s best universities and, it sometimes seems, the world’s worst students. This...
Today’s woke Canada couldn’t produce another Alice Munro
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 12 hours agoFor such an enormous country, Canada can be very small. Or to put it another way, proximity defies...
If speaking for God, you’ll hear myriad contrary voices | Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette· 3 days agoThe General Conference is the Methodists' legislative body. With this step, the United Methodists...