The courage and clarity of President Trump’s executive orders on gender identity Last week, flanked by a small army of girls and young women, Presi...
Young men are turning to conservatism—in politics and in Christianity They didn’t see this coming. Liberals in America are scratching their heads t...
The meaning of the president’s second term in office Monday was one of those very few days that draw a line in the sands of history. Amer...
The life and legacy of Jimmy Carter James Earl Carter Jr., the 39th President of the United States, died Sunday at his home in Plains, Ga., at age ...
The editors of The Los Angeles Times have evidently decided to opine on matters of theology, offering their insights into the issues of gender and sexuality in recent church debates. In "Battling Over Bishops," published in today's edition of the pa ...
The citations from Elizabeth Achtemeier and Basil the Great found within my commentary, "The God Who Names Himself," are found in the book Speaking the Christian God: The Holy Trinity and the Challenge of Feminism, edited by Alvin F. Kimel, Jr. The b ...
Here's how Ruth Gledhill of The Times [London] introduced her report on Wednesday's happenings at the General Convention of the Episcopal Church, USA: The Episcopal Church in America descended into chaos last night after leading bishops on both the ...
Meeting for its General Assembly in Birmingham, Alabama, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) moved Tuesday to retain its church standards limiting ordination to those who limit sexual relations to heterosexual marriage, but then granted local presbyteri ...
The Episcopal Church finally passed its measure intended as a response to the Windsor Report of the Anglican Communion, but the tepid measure falls far short of the repentance called for by the report -- and short of a promise not to consecrate any m ...
The link between the availability of vernacular translations of the Bible and the growth of the church is made clear by Harriet Hill in the current issue of the International Bulletin of Missionary Research. As Ms. Hill, a veteran Bible translator, e ...
Just what we need -- another weblog. Let me introduce ConventionalThinking -- my blog devoted to the Southern Baptist Convention. It has been in the planning stages for some months, since this blog does not lend itself most effectively to coverage ...
Just in case anyone might misunderstand her position on homosexuality, Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, newly elected Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church USA, spoke her mind in an interview with CNN [these excerpts and others featured on Monday ...
The crisis in the Episcopal Church USA and the larger Anglican Communion deepened as the American church's election of a woman as the denomination's Presiding Bishop sent shock waves throughout the Anglican world. In the US, the Episcopal Diocese of ...
The anguish of orthodox Anglicans and evangelical Episcopalians intensified Sunday as the ECUSA elected the Right Reverend Katharine Schori, Bishop of Nevada, as the denomination's first woman to serve as Presiding Bishop. The move is being hailed as ...