The mainline Presbyterian Church (USA) announced this week it will change the way it reports statistical information about the denomination’s membership to now include a category for nonbinary/genderqueer reporting.
Wiebe Boer is Calvin University's 12th president, succeeding Michael Le Roy, who stepped down after a 10-year term.
A Scottish court has ruled in favor of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association in a lawsuit against a group that canceled an event in Glasgow featuring Franklin Graham in 2020 on the grounds of Graham’s ...
The Southern Baptist Conventions’ top administrative body voted to cut ties with two congregations on Tuesday—an LGBTQ-affirming church in North Carolina that had itself quit the denomination decades ago and a New Jersey congregation it ...
A group of United Methodist bishops in Africa announced Thursday (Sept. 8) that it will no longer work with the Africa Initiative or the Wesleyan Covenant Association, accusing the groups of spreading misinformation.
Faith-based schools that benefit from the federal program are ‘exempt on religious grounds if there is a conflict between Title IX and a school’s governing religious tenets.’
WASHINGTON (RNS) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture has clarified its guidance for participants in a free school lunch program, stating that faith-based schools can seek religious exemptions to federal restrictions that include barring discrimination ...
Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson has filed to dismiss a lawsuit against him from Seattle Pacific University, a private school associated with the Free Methodist Church, arguing that he’s not violating the university’s constitutional rights ...
A conservative splinter group opposed to same-sex marriage announced the formation this week of a new Anglican diocese in Australia, triggering an apparent split in the church in that country.
Thirty-one United Methodist churches in western North Carolina are demanding they be allowed to leave the United Methodist Church and have hired a Florida legal firm to push their claim forward.
(RNS) — “Let our people go!” reads a statement shared over the weekend by the Wesleyan Covenant Association, a network of theologically conservative United Methodists. While the phrase might be borrowed from Moses in the ...