David Roach

With grocery prices up, ministries across the country stretch to feed millions of hungry families during the holidays.

As it brings in churches from mainline and conservative Presbyterian denominations, the EPC feels the tension in compromise.

But experts say it can offer opportunities for leaders and congregations to grow.

Preaching legend and longtime professor Robert Smith Jr. is retiring after years of scholarship, accolades, and personal loss.

Overall church membership is up by nearly 10 percent in the region.

With a record number of congregations predicted to close their doors by 2025, multiuse developments may be the future for shrinking congregations and empty buildings.

Yet baptism and attendance numbers continue to recover from pandemic declines.

Yet churches struggle to prepare those coming next.

Evangelicals who minister to and among the undocumented call the state’s proposal “an assault to religious liberty.”

Overall, most churchgoers—including most white evangelicals—returned to the pews after the pandemic, survey finds.