June 15, 2024, 5:25am Churches & Religion
An important piece of early Christian history, the Crosby-Schøyen Codex, sold for nearly $3.9 million on June 11, at Christie’s in London. This codex is a mid-fourth century book from Egypt containing a combination of biblical and other early Christian texts. Read story
June 15, 2024, 5:14am Churches & Religion
An Ohio nonprofit that provides off-site Bible instruction to public school students during classroom hours says it will triple its programs in Indiana this fall after new legislation forced school districts to comply. Read story
June 14, 2024, 8:52am Churches & Religion
In sweltering temperatures, Muslim pilgrims in Mecca converged on a vast tent camp in the desert on Friday, officially opening the annual Hajj pilgrimage. Ahead of their trip, they circled the cube-shaped Kaaba in the Grand Mosque, Islam’s holiest site. Read story
June 12, 2024, 8:23am Churches & Religion
Southern Baptists narrowly rejected a proposal Wednesday to enshrine a ban on churches with women pastors in the denomination's constitution after opponents argued it was unnecessary because the denomination already has a way of ousting such churches. Read story
June 12, 2024, 8:15am Churches & Religion
Muslim pilgrims have been streaming into Saudi Arabia’s holy city of Mecca ahead of the start of the Hajj later this week, as the annual pilgrimage returns to its monumental scale. Read story
June 8, 2024, 6:05am Churches & Religion
When faced with infertility, Amanda and Jeff Walker had a baby through in vitro fertilization but were left with extra embryos — and questions. Tori and Sam Earle “adopted” an embryo frozen 20 years earlier by another couple. Matthew Eppinette and his wife chose to forgo IVF out of ethical… Read story
June 8, 2024, 5:08am Churches & Religion
On a warm, sunny morning in farm country, a group of 40 preschoolers and their parents fanned out across several rows of crops to pluck strawberries from beneath crowns of green leaves. Read story
June 6, 2024, 2:12pm Churches & Religion
From its towering white steeple and red-brick facade to its Sunday services filled with rousing gospel hymns and evangelistic sermons, First Baptist Church of Alexandria, Virginia, bears many of the classic hallmarks of a Southern Baptist church. Read story
June 1, 2024, 6:06am Churches & Religion
IMPACT Camas-Washougal began in 2015 as a call to action from St. Matthew Lutheran Church pastor Bob Barber. Read story
June 1, 2024, 6:04am Churches & Religion
David Chiu’s mother comes from a long line of Lithuanian Jews; his father is an immigrant from Hong Kong. For most of his life, the 42-year-old Southern Californian has felt like he “never completely belonged in either world.” Read story
