The Douglas Boulevard Christian Church in Louisville has voted to stop performing legal marriages in light of Kentucky's constitutional amendment outlawing same-sex marriages. As Peter Smith of The Courier-Journal [Louisville] reported: Douglass B ...
By the late 1960s, liberal Protestants began asking a rather difficult question. Why were the conservative churches growing? In retrospect, one aspect of the liberal Protestant crisis was reflected in that very question. The mainline Protestant denom ...
The Christian faith is not a mere collection of doctrines — a bag of truths. Christianity is a comprehensive truth claim that encompasses every aspect of revealed doctrine, but is centered in the gospel of Jesus Christ. And, as the apostolic prea ...
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In his 1996 novel, In the Beauty of the Lilies, John Updike told of the Reverend Clarence Arthur Wilmot, the fictional pastor of New York's Fourth Presbyterian Church, who stopped believing in God one day in 1910. On that day, the Rev. Wilmot "felt t ...
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The edition of TIME magazine timed for Easter Week features a cover story on the controversy over Rob Bell and his new book, Love Wins. Interestingly, the essay is written by none other than Jon Meacham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former e ...