(RNS) To date, 5,550 of the United Methodist Church’s approximately 30,000 US churches have disaffiliated from the country’s second-largest Protestant denomination since 2019.
Photo caption: DAVE TELL, from left, Rev. Wheeler Parker, Jr., and Theon Hill participate in the“Remembering Emmett Till: A Conversation on Race, Nation and
(RNS) ‘It’s pretty tremendous that a bishop has commissioned a movement,’ said Vance Blackfox, the ELCA’s director for Indigenous ministries and tribal relations.
(RNS) At a time when fewer people are going to church, events like the Adult Eggstravaganza Egg Hunt hosted by the Itasca Park District and Village of Itasca are taking off.