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A new survey of 15,278 religious congregations across the United States confirms trends sociologists have documented for several decades: Congregational attendance across the country is shrinking.

Menlo Church and its longtime former pastor, John Ortberg, had come under fire for not disclosing that a children’s ministry volunteer confessed to being sexually attracted to minors.

Patriot Church and Life Church are located in the same city, but they could not be more different. Patriot Church advocates far-right politics, while Pastor Philip Nordstrom of Life Church grows concerned about the threat of Christian nationalism within the evangelical movement.

Ronnie Floyd, the president and CEO of the Southern Baptists Convention Executive Committee, announced his resignation Thursday night in a letter sent to the Executive Committee and SBC members.

The prelate who oversees Catholics in the U.S. military issued a statement Tuesday supporting service members who have refused COVID-19 vaccines on religious grounds.

In a recent article in USA Today, professor of religious studies and ordained minister Rebecca Todd Peters argued that abortion can be a “morally good decision.” Dr. Albert Mohler responded to Peters’ article, saying that the pro-abortion argument has gone “for broke.”

This week, one of North America’s oldest denominations will confront its gridlock over LGBTQ ordination and same-sex marriage. Votes cast in Tucson, Arizona, at the Reformed Church in America’s General Synod will chart the course for the already-splintering denomination.

When Scott Smith was arrested during a Loudoun County, Virginia, school board meeting in June, he was called an out-of-control parent, a bigot, and a domestic terrorist. But now Smith is sharing his side of the story.