Two venerable, largely white, evangelical organizations take very different paths. While the American Bible Society moves in the direction of exclusion, the Southern Baptist Convention seeks to expand its ranks to be more welcoming to people of color.
While volunteering is something all nonprofits rely upon, the model Operation Nehemiah is advancing can teach nonprofits, as well as those concerned about the efficacy of nonprofits in their community, something important about cooperation.
A new study finds that levels of political efficacy—the belief that one’s actions can make a difference—were higher for congregants who attended churches in which sermons focused on helping the community.
The gunning down of eleven people at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh and two at a neighborhood store this weekend reminds us all of the critical need to lift up the value of solidarity.
New guidance from the US Conference of Bishops for nonprofit Catholic healthcare providers further threatens reproductive healthcare services.
Religious language of morality meets recent decisions designed to terrorize immigrant women and children.
This story of the hijacking of a nonprofit mission provides a guide to how it’s done.
Red Letter Christians seek to call evangelical Christians back to their biblical roots. “There is another Gospel in our country right now, and it is the Gospel of Trump,” preaches a group leader. “It doesn’t look much like the Gospel of Jesus.”
Whose religious freedom takes precedence, the provider of services or the recipient? In his recent order transforming the Executive Branch’s Office Faith-Based and Neighborhood Initiatives into a new Faith and Opportunity Initiative, President Trump came down heavily on the side of service providers’ rights over those they serve. This ended a period of effective collaboration on balancing some very difficult issues.
The Boy Scouts of America and the Mormon Church have had a century-long relationship that has served both well, but that will all end in 18 months, as many observers have long predicted might happen.
