by Jack Jenkins | Jul 1, 2011 | News
(RNS) For Living Faith Lutheran Church, the name change was as much about the future as the past. On Sunday (June 26) the Rockville, Md., congregation formally bid goodbye to its old name, Crusader Lutheran Church. “We’re not saying (Crusader) was a bad name,” said...
by Daniel Burke | Jun 30, 2011 | News
BALTIMORE (RNS) A recent Sunday service at the First Unitarian Church of Baltimore ended with an apology. Laurel Mendes explained that religious doctrine had been duly scrubbed from the hymns in the congregation’s Sunday program. But Mendes, a neo-pagan lay member who...
by Jonathan Luxmoore | Jun 30, 2011 | News
(RNS/ENInews) Churches in Liechtenstein, one of the world’s smallest countries, could face financial disaster under government plans to withdraw state subsidies under new legislation, according to a Protestant leader. “This will be a drastic change—we depend on...
by Adelle Banks | Jun 30, 2011 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) As the U.S. Supreme Court ends its 2010-2011 term this week, legal scholars say a decision issued two months ago is likely to resonate within church-state debates for years to come. On April 4, the justices rejected a challenge to an Arizona school...
by Baptist Times Staff | Jun 30, 2011 | News
Britain’s Equality and Human Rights Commission will stand up for people of faith, according to chairman Trevor Phillips. However, Phillips noted there had been a perception that the commission had not done so in the past. The Evangelical Alliance described his...
by Adelle Banks | Jun 29, 2011 | News
(RNS) Officials of the Southern Baptist Convention say they were the victims of a hoax in which a group claiming to be the denomination’s Executive Committee announced it had started to support gay marriage. A website of the “Southern Baptist Convention of America”...
