Jim Cymbala is pastor of Brooklyn Tabernacle. One hot August evening (90 degrees), he felt led to have his congregation sing, “Silent Night, Holy Night.” ...

MACON, Ga. — A South Carolina man now knows how long he will have to spend behind bars after setting fire to a church in middle Georgia in 2024. The man claimed that a verse in the Bible led him to ...

Until recently, former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett appeared to be the opposition figure best positioned to challenge Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel’s election this fall. But a new contender has ...

In todays video do the Guess The Emoji Challenge! NATO prepares for the battle of the Baltics Weissmann says what Blanche is 'perpetrating' at DOJ 'unbelievable': 'Why would you do that?' Why American ...

When wildfires blazed through Los Angeles last year, displacing tens of thousands of people, the local National Council of Jewish Women affiliate was well positioned to help. The national nonprofit’s ...

The gospel reading for Epiphany 4 is John 2.1–11, the water into wine at the wedding in Cana (also the reading for Epiphany 3 in Year C). The written commentary for that is here and the video ...

(RNS) — With Christmas season over, Christians move into what the church refers to as “Ordinary Time.” This is the time outside of Christmas season, Lent and Easter season. “Ordinary” in English means ...

Sometimes, when we lose something, we search for it everywhere, only to overlook the fact that what we are looking for is right in front of us; we just haven’t looked closely enough to see it. Why do ...

(RNS) — Earlier this month, the Rev. Pilar Pérez, a United Methodist minister in the denomination’s Western North Carolina Conference, called up a parishioner who hadn’t been to worship in a while.

A file photo shows people visiting the Nativity scene in St. Peter's Square after Christmas Eve Mass at the Vatican. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) Every year we take out the nativity. We arrange it ...

When CBS executives viewed a completed cut of “A Charlie Brown Christmas” in 1965 — 10 days before it was scheduled to air for the first time — they were horrified. “They hated it,” producer Lee ...