3+ hour, 12+ 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…...

1+ week, 16+ hour ago   (565+ words) The report follows a consultation in March attended by clergy, theologians, theological educators, church officials and other stakeholders. Stipendiary clergy numbers within the Church have been declining since the 1960s. In May of this year the number of stipendiary clergy was…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (554+ words) This is the opening thought in the Haftorah reading for the last Shabbat in the month of Elul, before Rosh Hashanah, which takes place on the 1st of Tishri. It appears in Isaiah 55:6-56:8, the final Haftorah of Comfort. It is believed…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1054+ words) Greig says the word came to him in March while he was in South Africa worshipping with a group of 24-7 Prayer leaders. The apparent prophecy was not accompanied by a specific prediction about the identity of an enemy, the timing…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1408+ words) Faris recently shared in the Dear Chelsea podcast that she did not grow up religious and her 14-year-old son Jack has asked her to “accept Jesus Christ”. In response, she told him she would do anything for him, including becoming…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (761+ words) Pastor Justin Lester of Friendship Missionary Baptist Church, Vallejo, has devised “an AI digital doppelganger” to minister to his congregation when he cannot. The idea is that can turn to an AI-generated version of their church leader to give advice…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (714+ words) Church leaders have offered their prayers and support following the death of Pastor Robert Guanco at the Big Church Festival. The 41-year-old was the pastor of Jesus Living Water Church in Eastbourne. He died after a sign fell during the…...