As I’ve been watching the arrival of spring it is easy to see that God has a plan. Not only for nature but he has a plan for each of us also. So, yes God has a plan for you. It’s refreshing to see spring begin. The blossoms on the flowers, the grass starting to […]
Hanging on a wall inside the office of a Southfield church is a sculpture that reads “Peace” made out of the parts of what was once a gun. On a table in front, the Very Rev. Chris Yaw of St. David’s Episcopal Church laid out on Good Friday some other pieces of art he recently […]
In trying to upend longtime U.S. Rep. Danny Davis in the 7th Congressional District’s Democratic primary, Melissa Conyears-Ervin is getting help from the pulpit as more than two dozen Black clergy leaders backed her candidacy Wednesday. Conyears-Ervin — Chicago’s city treasurer and wife of West Side Ald. Jason Ervin, 28th — is one of the […]
In the leadup to a Wichita Falls pastor’s trial for charges related to child sex crimes, prosecutors are seeking records from religious campuses and calling for an expert in child sexual abuse to testify, court records show. Longtime Rephidim Church Pastor Ronnie Allen Killingsworth is scheduled for trial April 30 in 78th District Court for […]
The congregation of a North Texas church gathered Sunday to mourn the loss of its senior pastor’s wife and daughter who were killed in a car crash Saturday afternoon. New Hope Community Church in Venus held a special service for the family of Mark McDaniel, the senior pastor. His wife, Brandi McDaniel, and daughter 17-year-old […]
As the Israel-Hamas war enters its fourth month, a coalition of Black faith leaders is pressuring the Biden administration to push for a cease-fire — a campaign spurred in part by their parishioners, who are increasingly distressed by the suffering of Palestinians and critical of the president’s response to it. More than 1,000 Black pastors […]
DES MOINES, Iowa — A different kind of political speech is taking center stage at the rallies of former President Donald Trump: the opening prayer. The invocations have become their own political call to action, sometimes punctuated with applause lines and partisan language, invoking the same falsehoods and vindictiveness that Trump himself spreads. At a […]
A week ahead of the Iowa Republican caucuses, a new video depicting former president Donald Trump as a messianic figure caused a stir among the Iowa evangelical community. The video, called “God Made Trump,” was shared by the former president on his Truth Social account Friday morning. In the video, a narrator paraphrases the Bible […]
Dec. 25—It’s not a stretch to say that Julian Rush lived a bold, unconventional life — particularly for a Methodist pastor from the deep South. In addition to being one of the first openly gay pastors in Colorado, Rush served as onetime director of the Colorado AIDS Project and was a lifelong civil rights advocate. […]
Tracy Wells apologized to her pastor. Yet it was the pastor, the Rev. Ian Sears at Grace Presbyterian Church who spoke to Wells inappropriately, rubbed her feet and kissed her forehead. Still, it was Wells who church leaders considered equally culpable. As part of a disciplinary inquiry led by the Nashville Presbytery — the regional […]