Apostle Paul
For some Christians, a solar eclipse signals the second coming of Christ
By Eric Vanden Eykel — April 5, 2024
(The Conversation) — A scholar of early Christian literature writes that religious theories around celestial events are part of a larger human pattern to find meaning. And they go back thousands of years.
In ‘God’s Ghostwriters,’ scholar Candida Moss looks at the hidden hands behind the Bible
By Bob Smietana — March 13, 2024
(RNS)— In her new book, Moss argues that slaves and other lower-status workers played a key role in producing and preserving the Christian Scriptures.
Conservative cardinals have five questions or ‘dubia.’ I have six.
By Thomas Reese — October 10, 2023
(RNS) — Traditionalists don't like Pope Francis because he is the first truly post-Counter-Reformation pope, with perhaps the exception of John XXIII.
His popular blog debunks Christian myths. With the profits, he does the Christian thing.
By Yonat Shimron — February 10, 2023
(RNS) — Bart Ehrman is known for challenging established Christian teachings. But there’s a part of him that still honors his abandoned Christian faith and what he sees as its moral obligations, such as giving to charity.
The scandal of evangelical Christian friendship
By Karen Swallow Prior — September 9, 2022
(RNS) — Christians more than anyone else ought to have the most robust and healthiest understanding of friendship, including, or especially, those between men and women.
She was an early church deacon. Catholic women now want to reclaim her example.
By Yonat Shimron — September 2, 2022
(RNS) — On Saturday (Sept. 3), 56 pilgrims from four countries will gather in Mexico City to celebrate St. Phoebe’s feast day and consider how they might urge the church to reclaim the diaconate for women.
A tight job market is a chance for Christians to rethink work
By Karen Swallow Prior — August 2, 2022
(RNS) — 'Ministry' is not defined by who signs our paycheck.
Pastor who called on husbands to rape their wives is placed on leave
By Yonat Shimron — November 23, 2021
(RNS) —The Greater New York Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church said it has placed Pastor Burnett Robinson on administrative leave.
‘The best person to rape is your wife,’ says Bronx pastor
By Yonat Shimron — November 22, 2021
(RNS) — Pastor Burnett Robinson was apparently preaching from a New Testament passage on wives submitting to their husbands.
A pope, two rabbis and a new concern about supersessionism
By Eric J. Greenberg and Eugene Fisher — September 17, 2021
(RNS) — Both traditions are still learning how to speak to one another about their self-understandings.
New book plumbs the role of the Herods in forming early Jewish, Christian views
By Yonat Shimron — August 17, 2021
(RNS) — In his book “The Herods: Murder, Politics, and the Art of Succession,” Bruce Chilton, a professor of religion at Bard College, places the dynastic family that ruled Judea and Israel for the Romans front and center.
Christian attitudes surrounding abortion have a more nuanced history than current events suggest
By Luis Josué Salés — July 14, 2021
(The Conversation) — Abortion and contraception were quite common among premodern Christians, who also celebrated women’s celibacy as superior to marriage and childbearing.
Beth Moore apologizes for her role in elevating ‘complementarian’ theology that limits women leaders
By Yonat Shimron and Bob Smietana — April 7, 2021
(RNS) — In an email to Religion News Service, Moore didn’t go quite so far as to say she has entirely abandoned complementarianism. But she no longer sees it as essential.
Our church suspended in-person worship until 2021. This one question sealed the deal
By Andy Stanley — October 19, 2020
(RNS) — Decisions about when to reopen churches quickly became political and divisive when the pandemic hit. The answer depends on what questions we ask.
What happens when the church leaves the building
By Ed Stetzer — April 3, 2020
(RNS) — Christians are called to ‘redeem the time.’ This pandemic is perhaps the best opportunity for paradigm change we’ve seen in our lifetimes.
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