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Faced with declining audiences and a troubled product, baseball — like organized religion — has turned on itself.

‘If you build it they will come’ no longer works for baseball — or organized religion

Baseball Lockout
by: Bob Smietana March 4, 2022 (RNS) — Tom Johnson loves baseball. And he loves the church. Both, said Johnson, a former Minnesota Twins pitcher turned pastor, are in trouble.Read More

Is the churches uses of medical missions limited to overseas?

Churches and faith-based groups vaccinating can be a medical mission

Batavia, Ill., June 3, 2021 — So the Chicago White Sox were offering incentives to promote COVID-19 vaccinations. What can the church do to promote vaccinations to their congregants andRead More

Banners proclaiming "Jesus saves" appear next to those bearing the name Trump...

Opinion: Truth over power: It is past time for the church to speak plainly about the election

Storming of U.S. Capitol
by: Roxanne Stone (Esau McCaulley) Jan. 8, 2021 (RNS) — We can be sure some who stormed the Capitol claimed allegiance to the Christian faith. Banners proclaiming “Jesus saves” appearRead More

Congregational leaders find themselves relying on multiple digital tools....

Opinion: COVID-19 could end church as we know it. And I feel fine.

church technology in Spain during COVID-19 crisis
by: Paul O’Donnell (C. Christopher Smith) March 27, 2020 (RNS) — The coronavirus pandemic has quickly swept the globe, throwing just about every human institution into chaos. Faith communities areRead More

50 Years After MLK, Sunday Segregation Isn’t Theological

According to sociology’s top survey, black and white evangelicals have more in common than politics conveys. Source: 50 Years After MLK, Sunday Segregation Isn’t Theological

If character is ‘irrelevant’ in politics, eventually the Church will be, too – Baptist News Global

It is a confusing time, but one thing is crystal clear to me: if committing an adulterous affair with a porn star, if that kind of morality and that kindRead More

Protestant churches may be a little more diverse these days.

Diversity & churches: Progress being made, study says

by Bob Smietana NASHVILLE, March 20, 2018 (BP) — Protestant churches may be a little more diverse these days. And that’s a good thing, their pastors say in a newRead More

New Book Excerpts

No Place for Me: Letters to the Church

New Book Excerpts from JohnWFountain.com Why do so many men not go to church? Why does the church continue to erect multimillion-dollar edifices in the name of Christ, even inRead More