NASHVILLE (USA Today) — A nearly 90-year-old church now stands across the street from a new luxury apartment complex, illustrating how redevelopment has altered its neighborhood.

It also shows that places of worship, like First Baptist Church East Nashville, are not immune to the changes in their communities.

The church’s predominantly black congregation once mirrored the neighborhood’s demographics. But today hip and eclectic East...

Despite theoretically slowing down over the summer months, Pope Francis remains one of those figures basically incapable of "down time." Among other things, he seems to be catching up on correspondence, including sending encouraging notes to an Argentine nun who ministers to transgender women in the pope's native country.

“National parishes” were common before 1920. They served the specific needs of ethnic Catholics, whether German, Polish, Portuguese, etc. Should the Church in the United States return to the model of "personal parishes" to better serve the specialized needs of the 21st century?

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The house was more than just a clever marketing ploy, it was an innovative vehicle for movement-building.

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Stott's memoir, In the Days of Rain, is about her childhood in and out of the Exclusive Brethren, a conservative, separatist cult.

Source: 'I Was Full Of Rage': Author Rebecca Stott On Growing Up In A Christian Cult : NPR

EAST HADDAM, Conn. – The once-thriving mill town, known as Johnsonville Village in Middlesex County in Conn., is finally off the market after a $1.85 million purchase on July 7 by the international religious organization Iglesia Ni Cristo (INC or Church Of Christ).