The streak is over!All through this COVID craziness, bullets had been dodged. I was happy to do a Joe Frazier-like peek-a-boo style. Never had to throw a punch. Never took one.Until this past Thursday. I took pride in boasting I knew no one who had been bitten by…

*Updated May 27, 2020.* The Roman Catholic Church’s sexual abuse scandal continues apace and reflects a common trend in churches around the world. There are many facets of this to consider, including cults and fringe religious movements or groups, as this happens in and out of the communities…

Listen to article What I can’t really understand, is what makes some people want to worship pagan idols, gods – inanimate matter – rather than worshipping living God, Jesus Christ, true God and true Man. In the time of King Solomon and under his rule, then Israel attained…

NPR’s Michel Martin speaks with Michael B. Curry, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, about “A Time to Mourn,” the national virtual memorial service to mourn the lives lost to COVID-19. MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Memorial Day is tomorrow, and that’s a day Americans stop to remember the men…

PHIL BARBERTHE PRESS DEMOCRAT For the first time in weeks, the Sunday morning silence was torn by the devotions of approved church services. It wasn’t the peals of bells that summoned the spirit, though, not with indoor public gatherings still prohibited by Sonoma County’s stay-at-home order. It was…

SALT LAKE CITY — President Donald Trump took the podium to make a two-minute statement Friday declaring churches, synagogues and mosques “essential” and demanding that they open this weekend. He challenged all governors “to do the right thing and allow these very important essential places of faith to…

May 22, 2020 How can we receive it? By Clinton WahlenOver the Easter weekend Adventist ReviewOnline and you celebrated Jesus’ resurrection together. But as you know, that was far from the end of the story. AR now offers you a special online series of articles to enable our reflection on the…

(Photo © ollo / E+ / Getty) March 16 On Thursday our worship committee made the decision to cancel church. I had sent them a summary of the conversations I had with the medical professionals and hospital workers in our church to hear their sense of the COVID-19 crisis.…

(RNS) — For more than half of his life, the Rev. Otis Moss III has sought to find ways to merge the cadence of the sermon with the creativity of movies. In addition to being senior pastor of Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ, Moss founded Unashamed Media…

‘You know, how Pritzker, the governor, said that worship was not essential, that’s what I read,” Jennifer Garcia said. “It really got to me.” On Thursday, I sat at my laptop, making a virtual guest speaker appearance at National Louis University. I had accepted the school’s kind invitation…