The scholars acknowledge, though, that Catholics and Protestants have an “imperfect unity” based on the distinct understandings of what makes the Church “one” — and that resolving those ...

While there’s no annual census of U.S. church closures, about 4,500 Protestant churches closed in 2019, according to the Southern Baptist-affiliated Lifeway Research. Scholars say churches ...

He used biblical exegesis to argue that faith demands justice, calling on churches to challenge oppression and uplift society ...

Whites also complained of their own version of racial fatigue, other scholars say. Theodore Brelsford, co-author of "We Are the Church Together,'' another book that looks at interracial churches ...

His books were influential primarily with clergy, but through their sermons Brueggeman’s concepts have become familiar to ...

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As a Scholar, He's Charted the Decline in Religion. Now the Church He Pastors Has Closed Its Doors They gathered one last time on Sunday — the handful of mostly elderly members of First Baptist ...

THE American Old Testament scholar Professor Walter Brueggemann has died, aged 92. A statement on his website said that he ...