by Adelle Banks | Jul 27, 2011 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) President Obama’s status-quo stance on the controversial issue of faith-based hiring has drawn criticism from atheists and church-state watchdogs. Responding to an atheist at a town hall last week at the University of Maryland, College Park, the...
by Adelle Banks | Jul 25, 2011 | News
(RNS) Willow Creek Community Church, a trend-setting megachurch in suburban Chicago, has quietly ended its partnership with Exodus International, an “ex-gay” organization. Willow Creek decided to sever ties with the Florida-based ministry in 2009, Christianity Today...
by Adelle Banks | Jul 22, 2011 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) President Obama agrees with religious officials’ concerns about protecting the poor as Washington debates the nation’s debt ceiling crisis, according to leaders who met with him this week. A delegation representing Catholic and Protestant...
by Adelle Banks | Jul 21, 2011 | News
(RNS) Campus Crusade for Christ is out. “Cru” is in. The 60-year-old evangelical ministry announced its new name at a staff conference in Fort Collins, Colo., on Tuesday (July 19), saying the old name had become problematic. “We’ve been having issues with two words in...
by Adelle Banks | Jul 12, 2011 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) An Iowa-based conservative Christian organization has removed controversial language about slavery from a pledge to uphold traditional marriage that the group has asked GOP candidates to sign. The Family Leader’s “Marriage Vow” originally included...
