Some men leave an indelible mark on their times. Cecil Sherman was one of those men. Sherman died April 17 at age 82, just two days after suffering a massive heart attack in Richmond, Virginia. He lived long enough to be almost unknown among a genera ...
A group of students at Trinity University in San Antonio is petitioning the administration to remove the words "in the year of our Lord" from the school's diplomas. Senior Sidra Qureshi said she started the petition in order to assure the school's co ...
Widely-caricatured as nothing more than a puritanical 18th century thinker, Jonathan Edwards is only known by many for his sermon, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. And yet, Edwards' life and works have lasted well beyond his own day, and he is ...
The Rev. Eric Bergman thinks he has seen the future -- and it isn't Protestant. Known as Father Bergman now, Rev. Bergman became a Catholic priest after serving for years as an Episcopalian minister. His conversion to Roman Catholicism came, he relat ...
A recent study reveals that over one-third of the members of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (PCUSA) no longer believe that Jesus Christ is the exclusive way to salvation. The PCUSA is another example of the slide into libera ...
Preaching has fallen on hard times. So suggests a report out of Durham University's College of Preachers. The British university's CODEC research center, which aims to explore "the interfaces between the Bible, the digital environment and contemporar ...
"It wasn't primarily about sex." With those words, Lutheran theologian Robert Benne explained that the actions recently taken by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to normalize homosexuality were not primarily about sex at all, but about theo ...
"Today heresy and orthodoxy have changed roles," remarked Harold O. J. Brown. "It is fashionable, not dangerous, to be a heretic, and dull if not unsafe to be orthodox." The truth of Brown's observation is evident as mainline Protestantism con ...