Churches want to be welcoming, safe places, but what happens when someone enters who disturbs worship, or could prove violent? How should the clergy and congregation respond?
Going home for the holidays? Boost, mask, and test beforehand.
Steps to take to protect your family from Covid-19, RSV, and flu.
Three Ways to Make the Local Church Feel More Like a Family
Here are three simple things your local church can do to feel more like a loving family and less like a stuffy institution.
Confronting the Problem of Spiritual Abuse in the Church
Is there more spiritual abuse in the church now than there was in days past? Or could it be that the world has shrunk so that we simply see more evidence of it?
10 of the Most Dangerous Distractions for a Pastor
Unfortunately, so many who used to be pastors, no longer hold the position. Many of them fell into what Ron Edmondson call a dangerous distractions for a pastor. Sometimes it isn’t a blatant sin. Often it is a casual drifting that gets pastors in trouble. Often it is simply a distraction from what matters most.
3 Steps Christian Institutions Take from Orthodoxy to Sexual Immorality
Eastern University has become the first non-Mennonite Christian school in the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU) to amend its policies to allow for the hiring of LGBT+ faculty and to add sexual orientation to its nondiscrimination statement, according to Religion News Service. In response the CCCU has put Eastern’s membership is on “hiatus” and removed the school from its online list.
Returning from self-imposed hiatus, ACNA Bishop Stewart Ruch works to regain trust
At a meeting last week, he addressed concerns raised about his handling of abuse allegations in his diocese.
Lawsuit accuses ACNA church of negligence that resulted in child sexual abuse
The case will be co-counseled by longtime sexual abuse attorney Boz Tchividjian.
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