November 6, 2016, 10:01pm Churches & Religion
As members of the Standing Rock Sioux and other Native American tribes gathered last week near the construction site for the Dakota Access oil pipeline, more than 500 clergy members surrounded them in a protective circle. Read story
November 5, 2016, 6:05am Churches & Religion
The mention of a multimedia worship service these days might evoke images of a young preacher in jeans and Chuck Taylors, a backup rock band, high definition video and special effects lighting. But on a recent fall Sunday morning at Vancouver First Presbyterian Church, a very different scenario took place. Read story
November 5, 2016, 6:04am Churches & Religion
For more than 200 years, members of Edenton Street United Methodist Church have worshiped from wooden pews that are bathed in sunlight filtering in through stained-glass windows. Read story
November 5, 2016, 6:04am Churches & Religion
The world’s oldest man has finally celebrated his bar mitzvah — a hundred years later than usual. Read story
November 1, 2016, 11:46am Churches & Religion
An appeals court has reopened a lawsuit challenging a North Carolina county commission’s practice of starting meetings with Christian prayer. Read story
October 31, 2016, 12:36pm Churches & Religion
Pope Francis marked the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation by travelling to secular Sweden on Monday and encouraging Catholics and Lutherans to forgive the “errors” of the past and forge greater unity, including sharing in the Eucharist. Read story
October 29, 2016, 6:00am Churches & Religion
Mormon leaders told gay and lesbian members Tuesday that attraction to people of the same sex is not a sin or a measure of their faithfulness and may never go away, but reminded them that having sex violates fundamental doctrinal beliefs that will not change. Read story
October 29, 2016, 6:00am Churches & Religion
Religion is big business. Just how big? A new study, published Wednesday by a father-daughter researcher team, says religion is bigger than Facebook, Google and Apple — combined. Read story
October 22, 2016, 6:04am Churches & Religion
In just five years, white evangelicals have become much more likely to say a person who commits an “immoral” act can behave ethically in a public role. In 2011, just 30 percent of these evangelicals said this, but that number has more than doubled to 72 percent in a recent… Read story
October 22, 2016, 5:50am Churches & Religion
As afternoon dims into dusk on the eve of Yom Kippur, an extraordinary thing happens in this secular metropolis: Israel’s city that rarely sleeps grinds to a standstill and is enveloped in a strange and wonderful silence. Read story
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