9+ hour, 24+ min ago   (785+ words) We often project later experiences back into history, consciously or unconsciously assuming an inevitability to what finally occurred. However, history is complex and, what now seems inevitable, did not always look that way in the past. The distribution of forms…...

17+ hour, 46+ min ago   (1176+ words) Dolly Parton's faith divided Christians even in death. Why do we expect celebrities to be perfect disciples, and are we any different?...

20+ hour, 40+ min ago   (538+ words) As a Christian for almost 30 years, prayer has been a discipline I've had to perfect. For many years, I prayed superficially, hiding my deep emotions from God. But as I matured, I quickly realized that God knew all my feelings…...

17+ hour, 50+ min ago   (558+ words) My assumptions about sex and gender became impossible to reconcile with church teachings. But I had never seriously considered that my personal views could be wrong...

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1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (652+ words) “Let me clarify this very definitely. This is not an authoritarian organization.” L Ron Hubbard Yesterday, I received a bunch of documents from members of a PCA church who want to go forward with their experience of abuse via the…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (23+ words) In oral histories recorded by the Church History Department, five members remember the day the towers fell as America marks the 25th anniversary...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (34+ words) The Lutheran Church of the Ascension brought together people with their own personal connections to 9/11. The Lutheran Church of the Ascension brought together people with their own personal connections to 9/11....

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (1258+ words) Karl and Debbie Dortzbach, who both turn 77 this week, spent 20 years in Africa fighting AIDS and building peace. Sitting alone in a tepee-like shelter made from sticks collected by a dry African riverbed in 1974, 24-year-old Debbie Dortzbach stitched the words…...