Christians may need Jolly Old Saint Nicholas more than ever this Christmas—not to bring presents to good boys and girls, but to confront heretics denying the deity of Jesus.
Why Christians Should Care About Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB)
As Dorothy Gale says to her dog in the 1939 movie, The Wizard of Oz, " “Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.” We cannot close our eyes and pretend that we are back in the 1950s or the 1980s.
5 Shifts Every Leader Needs to Figure Out to Lead in the Future
What got you here won’t get you there
5 Major Concerns About the State of the Bible in the U.S.
According to research, reading the Bible increases our joy, our outlook on life, our likelihood to be good neighbors, and our ability to forgive others. The research also reveals some troubling and concerning trends, trends which ministry leaders should be burdened over and pray for wisdom in how to address.
United Methodists Respond after Devastating Twisters United Methodist churches are dealing with death and property devastation caused by the tornadoes that clobbered Kentucky, Tennessee and other states overnight on Dec. 10. Conferences and the United Methodist Committee on Relief are gearing up for relief work. Some United Methodist churches in hard-hit areas carried on with Advent worship services.
Episcopalians Join Communities Responding to Deadly, Destructive Tornadoes in Central US
St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, the Episcopal church in Mayfield, Kentucky was closed in 2006.
St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, the Episcopal church in Mayfield, Kentucky was closed in 2006.
While shifts in the demographics of the town were blamed for closure of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, the liberal policies of the Diocese of Kentucky and the location of the church building were major contributing factors to its demise.The Jackson Purchase where Mayfield is located is one of the more conservative regions of the commonwealth of Kentucky.The building, constructed in the late 1950s, was in the middle of a subdivision, at the end of the cul de sac with no direct connection to a major artery in the town. The church lacked visibility and accessibility and the churchgoing families in the subdivision did not, as the diocese had anticipated, attend the church due its proximity to their homes. They went to other community churches.The church may have been too high church for a community in which Continuing Anglicans, Episcopaians, Lutherans, and Roman Catholics form a tiny segment of the population, and the three dominant Christian traditions are Baptist, Church of Christ, and Methodist.I don't know if the church's handsome Neo-Tudor building survived the tornado.
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