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According to Lifeway Research, half of U.S. Protestant pastors (52%) say the current economy is having a negative impact on their churches, 40% say it’s having no effect, and 7% say it’s a positive factor.

Last week, American Muckrakers filed a defamation lawsuit against Lauren Boebert for comments she made about the PAC. They also filed a complaint to the IRS against a church for hosting her in June.

United Methodists have for generations been a mainstay of the American religious landscape. But the United Methodist Church is also the latest of several mainline Protestant denominations in America to begin fracturing amid debates over sexuality and theology.

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Dylann Roof, who challenged his death sentence and conviction in the 2015 racist slayings of nine members of a Black South Carolina congregation.

A Baptist pastor and his wife remain missing after being kidnapped Sept. 21 from their church in Russian-occupied Mariupol, Forum 18 News Service reported Oct. 6.

Pope Francis used strong words to criticize the mistreatment and abandonment of migrants in his homily on Sunday (Oct. 10) during a mass where he canonized Italian Bishop Giovanni Battista Scalabrini.

One of the chief architects of the “He Gets Us” campaign has some words for evangelical leaders who argue that Christian ethics like kindness, honesty and loving your neighbor don’t apply to culture-war politics.

Christian psychologist Diane Langberg encourages pastors who want to avoid abusing their authority to practice self-examination and to do so in trusted community. Langberg also emphasizes the importance of church leaders seeing themselves as sheep under the authority of the one true Shepherd, Jesus.