Africa has become the world center of Pentecostal Christianity in recent years, but this advance has at times been accompanied by problems associated with denunciations of allegedly corrupt pastors. Because of claims within the Pentecostal …
Emily Schutz of Religion News Service writes that the practice of ‘double belonging’ between Catholicism and Buddhism has become surprisingly common. Double belonging describes individuals who incorporate some practices of two different religions. Often, practitioners …
Are we treating work too much like religion? This is the question Kathryn Post of Religion News Service asks after noticing some disturbingly familiar trends in the workplace. Megachurch-like events put WeWork’s charismatic CEO in …
Michelle Boorstein of The Washington Post writes that members of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) were expected to vote on issues related to recent sex-abuse scandals at their annual gathering. More opinionated Baptists feared that …
Jim “Soni” Sonefeld, the drummer and songwriter from the 90s-alt rock band Hootie & the Blowfish, is sharing the story of the band and his journey to finding God in a memoir titled Swimming with …
The Google computer engineer who claimed he was blowing the whistle on chatbot sentience is saying that that his belief in the bot’s existence as a sentient being with a soul is predicated in part …
The Southern Baptist Convention’s Pastor’s Conference had what Religion News Service described as a “hotly contested” election for the conference’s presidency on June 13. Notably, Voddie Baucham Jr., a well-known preacher who was backed by …
Tom Meyer, who is called “The Bible Memory Man” for memorizing 20 books of the Bible, is now volunteering at Kentucky’s Creation Museum. He has worked as a professor at California’s Shasta Bible College of …
Recent scandals throughout the United States show that pastoral misconduct has become far too common. However, Bob Smietana of Religion News Service writes that often, the reaction to that abuse is nearly as bad. The …
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