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DETROIT – Timothy Buchanan says he never consults clergy about important decisions, but it’s not for lack of faith: He regularly attends a nondenominational Christian church near his home....
DATE: July 12, 2019 | CATEGORY: Faith
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama – Confronting an unprecedented sex-abuse crisis, delegates at the Southern Baptist Convention’s national meeting voted Tuesday to make it easier to expel churches that mishandle...
DATE: June 15, 2019 | CATEGORY: Faith
More than 20% of all adults and over a third of millennials in the United States are not affiliated with a religion. For at least a decade, this number has been on the rise. Sexual abuse by clergy...
DATE: May 10, 2019 | CATEGORY: Faith
NEW YORK – The percentage of U.S. adults who belong to a church or other religious institution has plunged by 20 percentage points over the past two decades, hitting a low of 50% last year,...
DATE: May 4, 2019 | CATEGORY: Faith
WASHINGTON – A 40-foot-tall, concrete cross on public land in a Maryland suburb of Washington is at the center of a case before the Supreme Court. But similar monuments elsewhere in the country...
DATE: March 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Faith
ST. LOUIS – The United Methodist Church, America’s second-largest Protestant denomination, faces a likely surge in defections and acts of defiance after delegates at a crucial conference voted...
DATE: March 1, 2019 | CATEGORY: Faith
SALT LAKE CITY – Parents of Mormon missionaries will be able to hear their children’s voices a lot more often under new rules announced recently that allow the proselytizing youngsters to call home...
DATE: Feb. 22, 2019 | CATEGORY: Faith
The Christian Broadcasting Network, founded over 50 years ago by evangelist Pat Robertson, has now created the first 24-hour Christian television news channel. Robertson said that the channel would...
DATE: Feb. 2, 2019 | CATEGORY: Faith
Bright stars top Christmas trees in Christian homes around much of the world. The faithful sing about the “Star of Wonder” that guided the wise men to a manger in the little town of Bethlehem,...
DATE: Dec. 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Faith
If you read this column with any frequency, you know that I wonder a lot. Lately I’ve been wondering about wondering. I wonder about how wonderers engage with the world that is different from...
DATE: Nov. 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: Faith
SALT LAKE CITY – Mormons will start spending less time at church each Sunday – two hours instead of three – after a change announced earlier this month aimed at making worship more manageable for...
DATE: Oct. 12, 2018 | CATEGORY: Faith
Sheraton, Westin and other Starwood hotels are finding their religion. Marriott International, which bought Starwood two years ago, has begun putting copies of the Bible and the Book of Mormon in...
DATE: Sept. 22, 2018 | CATEGORY: Faith
