CHARLOTTE, N.C. | Ruth Bell Graham, a humble missionary’s daughter who became the wife of the world’s foremost evangelist yet shined outside his shadow in her own right, died Thursday at home in Montreat in the N.C. mountains.
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A group led by African archbishops reportedly plans to consecrate a U.S. Episcopalian to lead a breakaway Anglican church in the United States.
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Upon hearing that Tonex is considering retirement, Kirk Franklin both reflects on his relationship with Tonex appeals to the masses to send their encouragement this hurting minister.
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According to his weblog, Tonex has retired from the gospel music industry as an artist. Tonex sites that he has endure hard mistreatment from the body of Christ and more shockingly, other industry insiders most of all.
Tonex is not abandoning the Christian faith or seeking to start a career in mainstream music. In a [...]
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Is your church worshipping the God of Christmas on Christmas day or will it be among the many who argue against the secularization of Christmas, but ironically cancel worship on this day?
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Godcasting creates opportunities for the faithful to reach an expanded audience of likeminded individuals
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While neither validating nor disputing that God is responsible for the extra prosperity experienced by religious people, MIT economist Jonathan Gruber has found a “statistical correlation.”
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Pastor Billy Joe Daugherty chooses to pray for Steven Wayne Rogers not to prosecute him in a vivid illustration of “turn the other cheek.”
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Men in church workshops express themselves, word by painstaking word, in an unlikely medium: the humble letter.
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In a decision that could reverberate through clergy sexual-abuse cases everywhere, a King County Superior Court jury has awarded $4.2 million to two sisters who were sexually abused for years by their stepfather, a Mormon priest.
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The question of the Christian response to Halloween is raised every year in mainstream or religious media, it seems. Christians face the reality of this holiday’s impact on the community and respond based on their personal perceptions and convictions. Is Halloween a holiday that the faithful should ignore altogether or should countermeasures be put into [...]
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Nigerian Christians voice their opinions on the state of homosexuality in the America church. Are we tolerant, progressive, or just plain hypocrites?
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If the pastor leaves, retires or dies, what will your church do? A formal succession plan can prevent a disastrous transtion to new leadership. The mission of the church is to prepare people for the future. How prepared is the church for its future?
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CHICAGO (ABP)—The decline membership in of mainline churches over the last century had more to do with sex than theology, research by a trio of sociologists suggests.
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VATICAN CITY - The Vatican will allow gay men into the priesthood if they can show they have been celibate for at least three years, a report in leading Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera said today.
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ROME, Oct. 6 – Under Pope John Paul II, the question was barely up for debate. But over the last week, the deep shortage of Roman Catholic priests has dominated the first gathering of bishops under the new pope, Benedict XVI, with an openness and urgency that the Vatican has not been used to in [...]
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The pastor of an Afro-Caribbean church will have to repay £200,000 after an investigation by the Charity Commission found “serious misconduct and mismanagement” within his church.
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Florence, Ala. (AP)—The First Assembly of God Church has a Fear Factor ministry that had youths swallowing live goldfish — if they were up to it. The church’s youth minister says it teaches children about fear, but a grandparent questioned it and a pet shop owner called it animal cruelty.
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PARIS (Reuters) – A senior Roman Catholic cardinal seen as a champion of “intelligent design” against Darwin’s explanation of life has described the theory of evolution as “one of the very great works of intellectual history.”
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The hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church has published a teaching document instructing the faithful that some parts of the Bible are not actually true.
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