Singers at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church in West Georgia treat their red hymnals like extensions of themselves, never straying far from their copies of ''The Sacred Harp'' and its music notes ...

In his debut book, Joy Bomb: Unleash Jesus's Explosive Joy for an Extraordinary Life, the Grammy-nominated artist, pastor and ...

Doug Wilson has built a theocratic regime in Moscow, Idaho, where men rule and biblical teachings guide everything. Now he’s taking the model national, with a receptive crowd in the GOP.

It is 7110 miles from Mooresboro, North Carolina, to Beijing, China. It is a somewhat shorter yet still lengthy 458 miles from Mooresboro, North Carolina, to Washington, DC. And while it is highly ...

the American Baptist Churches of the South, and with the Alliance of Baptists, a small progressive denomination of about 140 congregations. But as much as Boswell wants to be strategic and ...

The first American pope succeeds Francis, preaching peace while confronting Church divides and urgent global crises.

He was in charge of three small churches. And he was paid handsomely for his nascent life in the pulpit — $8,000 a year. “I had to prepare three Sunday sermons each week,” he recalled.

As the world mourns Pope Francis, who died on Easter Monday, age 88—a symbolic end following the Church’s holiest calendar ... In a bastion of male authority, those small moves were seismic.

He was also in the process of planning a memorial mass. Typically churches will also set up a small shrine with a candle honoring the deceased pope, he said. Rev. Ira Acree, pastor of Greater St ...

The pews, the pulpit, the attendance tote boards on ... because I’d been considering retiring from my own small rural church. Now I know I want to remain faithful for as long as my health ...

And farmers have always been at the core of the small church’s membership ... Bailey took a class to become a lay reader and often fills in at the pulpit. Central Lutheran has about 35 members.