The Church of Jesus Christ has always been a global one, reaching out to men and women of “every nation, race, people, and tongue” (Rev 7:9) from even before the first Pentecost. Though Jesus’s Apostles were uniformly Middle-Eastern, Simon of Cyrene was from Africa, an African saint drawn to Christ
5 Faulty Assumptions about the Future ChurchCarey Niewhof identifies 5 faulty assumptions that church leaders are making about the church in 2022 and beyond. Gov. DeSantis, Let My Ministry Serve Migrant KidsIn preventing care for unaccompanied minors, Florida’s governor is interfering with US law and religious freedoms. It’s a TikTok
Six Reasons Your Church Welcome Ministry Is More Important Than Ever The church welcome ministry (or whatever your church calls it) has always been important. But the ministry is more important today than it’s ever been. Joining Others on Their JourneyRadical hospitality is showing up where people already are with
By Thomas Lambrecht In October 2021, after 16 months of Covid-related delay, the General Synod of the Reformed Church in America (RCA) adopted a plan to allow traditionalist congregations to disaffiliate over the church’s gridlock over LGBTQ ordination and same-sex marriage. That plan has now given rise to a new, theologically
By Kathryn M. Lohre On November 11, the ELCA Church Council approved revisions to “A Declaration of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) to the Jewish Community”* as an expression of this church’s continual opposition to rising antisemitism. The revisions specifically named the anti-Jewish “incitement to violence” that is
The city of Milan was in lockdown, at least for those less fortune residents who had no choice but to remain in their homes. The shadow of death was in the air as disease had returned to the northern Italian city. The “new normal” was the cancellation of Carnival, and