Religion Dispatches
Billy Graham, by any measure the most famous religious figure of the twentieth century, died today [at his home in Montreat, North Carolina]. He was ninety-nine years old.
In a career that extended well over half a century, Graham took a simple evangelical message – give your heart…
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“Institutions do not usually make for the most thrilling reading,” John Fea writes at the…
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Security sells. That’s why, says retired Episcopal Bishop John Shelby Spong, despite his best-selling controversial…
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American Christians in earthquake-ravaged Nepal—but not evangelism as usual.
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Shea helped the worshiping faithful understand the purchasing power of Christian consumers as an extension of their piety; as form of devotional practice that encompassed the ordinary pleasures of music entertainment.
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When I moved to New York City just over a year ago, I started going to church. More precisely, I started going to the churches—dozens of them—that were located in New York City’s public schools. I attended services all over Manhattan, in Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx.
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