A Honduran church leads the way in local garbage collection while praying for an international plastics treaty.

Victim says she wants accountability more than money.

After this week’s UMC votes on LGBTQ issues, African Methodists should join American conservatives in the new Global Methodist denomination.

Why the church has struggled to address mental illness well and how we can care better.

After years of disagreement and the departure of thousands of churches, the change passed without debate.

Every sin requires Christ’s atonement. But the Bible shows God punishing—and repairing—different sins differently.

A law professor shares lessons on respectful disagreement in the classroom, the church, and the wider culture.

A late historian explores how crusade hymns told both the classic story of gospel salvation and the evolving story of evangelical worship music.

Do activists often invest their work with religious significance? All the more reason for Christians to be discerning co-laborers.

The rage of the mob is a poor substitute for real community.

The plan would organize UMC churches in four global regions, with each given more leeway around same-sex marriage and other theological issues.

How the keeper of the beat is adapting to shifts in worship music.

Let us not give up meeting together—even when we disagree.

Helping marine biodiversity flourish is a means of participating in God’s work, says an Indonesian theologian.

Our message cannot be market tested or manufactured.

If they don’t “apologize” in the modern sense, it’s only because Scripture has a richer vocabulary of repentance.

How Jesus rescued a New Age psychic from spiritual darkness.

One of England’s finest writers surveys the past and present of English faith.

Alcoholism among women is rising. Can the church help?