evangelism
Rick Warren campaigns for Southern Baptist reinstatement of Saddleback Church
By Adelle M. Banks — June 5, 2023
(RNS) — Warren argues that the debate is far larger than what might happen to the church he founded.
Latte, no foam, with some faith on the side.
By Jeffrey Salkin — February 7, 2023
I take my religion caffeinated. How about you?
‘The White Mosque’: A Mennonite of color’s travel memoir rejects rigid storytelling
By Kathryn Post — October 26, 2022
(RNS) — Sofia Samatar intertwines her story with the stories of the German Mennonites who traveled to Uzbekistan in the 1800s to fulfill an apocalyptic prophecy.
Evangelist Nick Hall: Christians have become ‘loud about everything but Jesus’
By Adelle M. Banks — June 24, 2022
(RNS) — Hall remains dedicated to big-event evangelism and is leading Together '22 in Dallas this weekend, hoping to draw tens of thousands in person.
Billy Graham’s grandson Jonathan Lotz, son of Anne Graham Lotz, in hospital with COVID-19
By Adelle M. Banks — July 26, 2021
(RNS) — ‘Pray he will not have to go on a ventilator,’ his mother asked on social media, ‘and that his health will be fully restored.’
On LGBT and women’s equality, stark statistical reality is coming for white evangelicals
By Ryan Burge — August 7, 2020
(RNS) — As a social scientist who is also a pastor, I’m sympathetic to the view that God can change young people's hearts on these hot-button issues. But I see no evidence of divine intervention in the data.
How Ravi Zacharias changed the way evangelism is done
By Timothy Keller — May 29, 2020
(RNS) — Even in today’s ‘cancel culture,’ where disagreement typically leads to vitriol, Zacharias had a gift for disarming hostility with gentleness, humor and respect.
Giving victims of religious trauma a voice
By Chrissy Stroop — January 29, 2020
(RNS) — A recent tweetstorm about how to teach kids about faith was a testament to how little we hear in our national conversation from those who have experienced religious trauma.
Pope criticizes cultural discrimination in new book of interviews from Amazon synod
By Claire Giangravé — November 5, 2019
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In an interview book published Tuesday, Pope Francis discusses his vision for a missionary church and criticizes groups that discriminate against other cultures and view them as unworthy of receiving the gospel.
John Chau and the dangers of missionary work
By Scott Hildreth — November 27, 2018
(RNS) — The death of John Allen Chau is a reminder that missionary work is a dangerous endeavor, where good intentions can easily go bad.
In Colombia, the Avivamiento megachurch hopes former FARC rebels will get religion
By Julia Friedmann — October 30, 2018
MESETAS, Colombia (RNS) — As part of a peace plan, the government is allowing churches to evangelize in camps where the former rebels are preparing to re-enter society.
tobcalled Avivamiento to begin building churches aimed at converting ex-combatants of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia to evangelical Christianity.
Billy Graham drew less from Old Testament as years went by, new exhibit shows
By Menachem Wecker — August 14, 2018
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Poring over some 1,300 sermon notes from 'America’s pastor,' Museum of the Bible associate curator Anthony Schmidt has tracked Graham's evolution as a preacher from the Cold War into the 2000s.
Billy Graham, reaching the last person in the last row
By Ken Garfield — February 22, 2018
(RNS) — His fragile humanity came through, even in his younger, more electrifying days, deepening his connection with the masses, helping people see that he was one of them, on the same journey, facing the same struggles.
Offstage and on, Billy Graham’s ministry was a team effort
By Adelle M. Banks — February 21, 2018
(RNS) — Evangelist Billy Graham may have been the name and face behind the microphone on many a crusade stage, but the team that supported him on and off that stage was an integral part of his ministry.
Longtime evangelist Luis Palau announces cancer diagnosis
By Adelle M. Banks — January 19, 2018
(RNS) — The Argentine-born preacher, who moved to Oregon in his 20s, said he noticed symptoms in November but thought they might indicate pneumonia until doctors ran tests.
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