Religion

In this age of small-group ministries, most pastors would know how to handle a crisis that affected significant numbers of believers in their pews.

It isn’t every day that a prince of the Roman Catholic Church, and a strategic Jesuit ally of the pope, openly rejects centuries of Christian teachings that clash with core doctrines of the sexual revolution.

Editor’s note: Some church services may have moved to online-only formats after The Republic’s deadline due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Warren Scheidt will tell you that the fierce faithfulness among so many families through the decades at St. Paul Lutheran Church is planted as deeply as the roots of the sugar maple trees on the ministry’s rural grounds, a place where many a member has remained true from baptism to burial.

Editor’s note: Some church services may have moved to online-only formats after The Republic’s deadline due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee pastor Willie McLaurin has been named interim president and CEO of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee, becoming the first African American to lead one of the denomination’s ministry entities in its more than 175-year history.

Editor’s note: Some church services may have moved to online-only formats after The Republic’s deadline due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Editor’s note: Some church services may have moved to online-only formats after The Republic’s deadline due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Biltmore United Methodist Church of Asheville, North Carolina, is for sale.

Editor’s note: Some church services may have moved to online-only formats after The Republic’s deadline due to the COVID-19 pandemic.