Washington National Cathedral Wins $100,000 in Preservation Funds
The Washington National Cathedral, still recovering from a rare 2011 East Coast earthquake, has won $100,000 in preservation funding after being the top vote-getter in the “Partners in Preservation”...
View ArticleChurch-Based Scouting Alternatives Attract Interest
They have pledges. They have merit badges. And they may go camping.But they’re not the Boy Scouts.Across the country, there are decades-old religious alternatives with names like Pathfinders...
View ArticleHarold Camping May Be Facing Doomsday, But Not the One He Intended
Two years ago, radio evangelist Harold Camping was predicting the end of the world. Now, longtime aides say his false predictions are likely to result in the end of his California-based Family Radio...
View ArticleFranklin Graham calls IRS Probe of Ministry Finances ‘Un-American’
Evangelist Franklin Graham blasted the Internal Revenue Service probe of conservative nonprofit groups as “un-American,” saying both the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and the relief group...
View ArticleWill There Be a ‘Mass Exodus’ of Religious Groups from the Scouts?
Now that Boy Scout delegates have taken their long-awaited vote and permitted openly gay Scouts, will there be a mass exodus by religious groups?It depends on who you ask.The Assemblies of God is...
View ArticleSouthern Baptists Push for More Black Missionaries
Fred Luter had a lot of firsts in the last year: first black president of the Southern Baptist Convention; first time chairing the denomination’s annual meeting, this week, in Houston; and recently,...
View ArticleSouthern Baptists Condemn Gay Scouts Policy but Won’t Force a Boycott
Southern Baptists overwhelmingly voted Wednesday to stand with churches and families that drop ties with the Boy Scouts of America over its decision to allow openly gay Scouts, and urged the BSA to...
View ArticleStudy Says Gays Find Most U.S. Faiths Unfriendly
Gay Americans are much less religious than the general U.S. population, and about 3-in-10 of them say they have felt unwelcome in a house of worship, a new study shows.The Pew Research Center’s study,...
View ArticleWhen Firefighters Fall, Chaplains Stand
As friends and families reel from the news that 19 elite firefighters died battling an Arizona wildfire Sunday, the work of some of their spiritual comrades has just begun. Fire chaplains are stepping...
View ArticleCatholics, Baptists Push Back on Obama Administration's Final Contraception...
WASHINGTON — Just days after the Obama administration issued final rules to religious groups for its contraception mandate, a broad coalition spearheaded by Catholic and Southern Baptist leaders is...
View ArticleOpponents to Boy Scouts Policy to Launch Alternative
A fledgling organization that opposed the Boys Scouts of America’s decision to accept openly gay Scouts announced Tuesday it will launch an alternative group with a Christian worldview.“It’s our vision...
View ArticleEvangelicals Decry ‘Silence’ on Sexual Abuse
More than 1,200 people have signed an online petition decrying the “silence” and “inattention” of evangelical leaders to sexual abuse in their churches.The statement was prompted by recent child abuse...
View Article'The Butler' and His D.C. Church — A Man of Steady Faith
Eugene Allen served eight presidents as a White House butler, and his legendary career is the inspiration for Lee Daniels’ The Butler, a film starring Oprah Winfrey, Jane Fonda, and a host of A-list...
View ArticleMemories of the March
Don Cash had graduated from high school in June 1963 and decided on the spur of the moment to join the March on Washington when he finished his work shift at a nearby warehouse. The Baptist layman is...
View ArticleCelebrations of ‘I Have a Dream’ Speech Obscure Its Critique
It may be the most famous speech of the 20th century.Millions of American schoolchildren who never experienced Jim Crow or whites-only water fountains know the phrase “I have a dream.”And many American...
View ArticleCrowds Recall the Faith that Animated MLK’s Unfinished Dream
WASHINGTON — Fifty years to the day after Martin Luther King, Jr., knocked on the nation’s conscience with his dream, religious leaders gathered in a historic church to remind the nation that he was...
View ArticleBirmingham Church Bombing Recalled with Donation, Medal
They were among the youngest martyrs of the civil rights movement, four young black girls — three 14-year-olds and one 11-year-old — whose deaths in a church basement horrified a nation already torn...
View ArticleWater Initiatives Get Congregations to Pledge to Conserve
At an interfaith summer camp in northern New Jersey, two dozen children explored a swamp to learn how creatures depend on safe water.In Southern California, a Unitarian Universalist congregation...
View ArticleReligious Groups Feel the Pinch of Government Shutdown
As the government shutdown enters its second week, some religious groups are starting to feel the pinch, and they’re also finding ways to reach out.More than 90 Catholic, evangelical, and Protestant...
View ArticleAide Shares Bible Devotionals He Sent to President Obama Each Morning
President Obama may not attend church most Sundays, but a new book reveals the Bible verses and prayers that he reads every morning.The President’s Devotional, released Tuesday by Pentecostal minister...
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