Adelle M. Banks
National clergy issue interracial call for justice
As Barbara Williams-Skinner collected signatures for a statement by leaders of African-American church groups about the Ferguson, Missouri, police shooting of Michael Brown, she found more people w...
Women take the reins at three tall-steeple mainline churches
In quick succession, three women have been chosen to lead historic tall-steeple churches in major cities.
...Ferguson letter from black clergy becomes interracial call for justice
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Black churches address suicide, mental illness
The death of comedian Robin Williams has heightened awareness of suicide and mental health. But many African-American churches quietly began educating members on the issue well before.
...Assemblies of God turns 100, and looks to a multiethnic future
c. 2014 Religion News Service
...More than 100 religious, immigration activists arrested at White House
c. 2014 Religion News Service
...A ‘soul-winning script’ for the nursing home
Rhonda Rowe and her team gathered around a diagram of the nursing home’s floor plan and determined how to split up to avoid praying with anyone twice.
...Obama’s faith-based advisers divided over religious exemption for anti-gay discrimination
c. 2014 Religion News Service
...Is the black church shifting on gay marriage? Q&A with filmmaker Yoruba Richen
c. 2014 Religion News Service
...Growing coalition presses Obama to end policy on religious discrimination in hiring
c. 2014 Religion News Service
...Baptist seminary head apologizes for admitting Muslim to Ph.D. program
The head of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary offered an emotional apology to Southern Baptists meeting in Baltimore for accepting a Muslim student into his school’s Ph.D....
Rick Warren to pastors: 'There is no testimony without a test'
c. 2014 Religion News Service
...Southern Baptists meet as membership, baptism decline continues
c. 2014 Religion News Service
...Navy rejects request for first humanist chaplain
c. 2014 Religion News Service
(RNS) After the Army recently permitted “humanist” as a religious preference, many hoped a humanist chaplain might follow.
...Christian leaders say Middle East Christians must not be forgotten
c. 2014 Religion News Service
...One more time, evangelicals head to Hill on immigration reform
c. 2014 Religion News Service
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