Over at Religion News Service, Trish Harrison Warren argues that the sexual misconduct by former Willow Creek Community Church pastor Bill Hybels should force evangelicals to rethink their commitment to denominations. Here is a taste of her piece “Willow Creek’s...
Stephen Berry is Associate Professor of History at Simmons College in Boston. This interview is based on his first book A Path in the Mighty Waters: Shipboard Life and Atlantic Crossings to the New World (Yale University Press, 2015). JF:Â What...
Worship at an atheist mega-church According to Peter Berger, denominations are not dead. Â In fact, Roman Catholics, Buddhists, Jews, Muslims, and Hindus are all embracing various forms of denominationalism. Â So are atheists. This is how Berger explains the development of...
John Schmalzbauer writes about the “surprising influence” of the Evangelical Covenant Church, a church responsible for the hymn “How Great Thou Art,” Warner Sallman’s famous painting of Jesus, and a host of prominent theologians and church leaders. Happy 125th birthday […]
