Three months ago the General Synod of the United Church of Christ elected the Rev. Karen Georgia Thompson as the first woman and the first Black woman to lead the denomination as General Minister and President. Thompson was the former Associate General Minister for Wider Church Ministries and Co-Executive for Global Ministries, who
The presiding Bishop of Beth Moore’s church has released a statement about the video we published two days ago featuring a Muslim Iman chanting and teaching through a verse from the Quran from behind the pulpit during an interfaith dialogue, standing behind the decision to have the discussion in the first place,
In 2015, Bethel Church pastor Seth Dahl preached a sermon called ‘An Unexpected Route To Joy.’ In an epic butchery of the gospel and a fundamental misunderstanding of the forgiveness of Christ, Dahl claimed he encountered Jesus in a vision, who then asked him to forgive HIM. At the time of the
Uebert Angel, whose full name is Uebert Angel Mudzanire, is a Zimbabwean-born preacher, ‘prophet’ entrepreneur, televangelist, author, founder and leader of the Spirit Embassy: Good News Church, which has 75 locations globally and reaches millions of people weekly, and perhaps one of the purest examples of a prosperity heretic the
‘Jesus Calling’ author Sarah Young passed away from cancer Thursday night, just days after it was reported she was failing health. She was 77. Published in 2004, Jesus Calling has 45 million copies in print. It is one of the most recognizable devotional books in recent history and has spawned
A couple of churches in Missouri transformed their buildings into football stadiums to show their support for the Kansas City Chiefs participating in the Superbowl for the First time in 50 years, putting on a Super Bowl-themed service that includes a giant helmet walkway into the church, putting ‘turf’ on
Church worship trends in one of two directions. Either it progresses towards higher, God-pleasing, more exclusive worship practice and proclamation, or it moves towards more generalized, ecumenical, and man-pleasing practice. The God of the Bible and his gospel are exclusive, and the more specific the identity, works, and majesty of
Update: Several days ago, Beth Moore’s home church hosted an interfaith dialogue between Rev. Michael Dearman, a priest from HopePointe Anglican Church who is married to Rev. Katie Dearman, and Osman Fuad, the Iman and resident scholar at the Woodlands Islamic Center. The event took place at St. Timothy’s Anglican Church, a liturgical
Revs. Abel Arroyo (he/they) & Matt Zemanick (he/they) operate the podcast Chatoic Bisexual Text Study, which exists to “discuss the Bible and our times as Bi/Pan/Queer” folks. Both are ‘pastors’ within the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) with Arroyo being the Assistant to the Bishop for Faith Formation &
Rock Church’s thoroughly disgraced and disqualified ‘pastor’ John Blanchard appeared upbeat this past Sunday, appearing on stage and praying over a baby during a dedication service just days after learning that the prostitution charge he acquired for soliciting a minor is getting expunged. According to America Press: “An expungement removes arrests and/or
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