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Pastor Jamal H. Bryant and Dr. Jeremiah Wright discuss President Obama, Liberation Theology, Politics, Religion and more
By Michelle Boorstein and Avis Thomas-Lester WashingtonPost.com A multimillion-dollar ministry that includes everything from a 19,000-member congregation to offering paid parking for Washington Redskins games is legally controlled by a board of directors, not the son of the ministry’s co-founder, a Prince George’s County Circuit Court judge ruled Monday. Judge Dwight Jackson’s ruling was a blow to...
by Rev. Otis Moss, III The ancient proverbial statement says, “Silence is golden.” But how can a person, especially a person of faith, be silent when a woman is raped every minute and 45,000 children, women and men are dying in the Democratic Republic of Congo? The Democratic Republic of Congo is the one of...
by Pastor David Hansen There is an epidemic among church leaders! As social media (facebook, twitter, google+, linkedin, etc) has grown in use, an ever increasing number of clergy and other leaders have developed multiple personalities. But wait, don’t call in the American Psychological Association just yet. let me back up. As I pointed out...
As more and more people access social networking sites, more and more churches are seeing it as the best new way to interact with their members-old and middle age, as well as with potentially younger or unchurched audiences. In many respects, social networking sites provide a free opportunity to interact with church members more easily and readily.
After decades of no growth in the ranks of female senior pastors serving in Protestant churches, a new Barna study that has tracked the ratio of male-to-female pastors indicates that women have made substantial gains in the past ten years. From the early 1990s through 1999 just 5% of the Senior Pastors of Protestant churches...
Although public skepticism of religion has become increasingly commonplace, a new Barna Group study shows that most Americans remain relatively upbeat about the role that local churches play in their communities. The nationwide study shows that three-quarters of U.S. adults believe the presence of a church is “very” (53%) or “somewhat” positive (25%) for their...
