Worried about coaxing people into pews when they’d rather be in their pajamas, some Protestant pastors are canceling Sunday services on Dec. 25. For some churches, following a Christmas Eve service ...

The ministers of top U.S. churches are not always outstanding preachers. Many of them also tend to put too much emphasis on service and too little on God’s Word. This is one of the conclusions reached ...

Protestant churches align holiday celebrations with regular Wednesday night schedules, offering more candlelight services ...

This is a religion thread. To start off...please, no nasty anti-religion comments, I don't care to hear them, and really, anyone posting anything nasty shows that they care too much about the issue ...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – A more than two-hundred-year-old tale about a circuit-riding preacher named John Shrock proves that some Americans in the Red River Valley during the early 1800s had the ...

Overall, more than half of church leaders have seen members suffer depression, bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia. Most pastors have seen mental illness in their pews, while some have seen it in ...

The former president receives the most support from Pentecostal, Baptist, and nondenominational leaders. Like other Americans, pastors are deciding who they’ll vote for in the November election.

Protestant churches have always prided themselves on their preaching and music, especially non-eucharistic churches that rely on the Bible alone to shape their Sunday services. At the other end of the ...

INSTITUTIONS die hard. Especially religious institutions. They take a long time about it. Generations and centuries. The nostalgia of religious habits. The endowments and vested interests. Paganism ...