When the Boy Scouts of America voted last month to allow gay scouts to serve openly in their organization, Patti Garibay, founder and executive director of the American Heritage Girls, knew what she had to do: sever ties with BSA. Since 2009, the Cincinnati-based AHG had been the official sister organization of the Boy Scouts, but the decision to change its membership policy meant the Christian scouting organization had to officially dissolve its association.
One can be the loneliest number, especially in the church. Today, there are more singles in the United States than at any other time in history – 43.6 percent of the U.S. adult population are unmarried, according to the 2010 U.S. Census.
Nationally syndicated columnist Betsy Hart is being blunt with women: stop looking to the movies for love advice and stop sleeping with George Clooney, or men like him.
The role of religion in guiding moral decisions continues to be shown as significant, especially in relation to abortion, according to fresh analysis of the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth.
A capacity crowd of Christian fiction writers celebrated the best of their field Saturday night during the 10th annual American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW) conference.
Nearly 700 published and unpublished authors, agents, editors and other publishing representatives are descending on St. Louis for the 10th annual American Christian Fiction Writers conference. For a group that began life as the American Christian Romance Writers 11 years ago, a decade convention milestone is one that has founders and current leadership reflecting on the past and looking ahead to the future of Christian fiction.
A new kind of feminist is on the rise, one that embraces Christianity and a calling in politics, the boardroom or social causes. Led by women like Sarah Palin and Rep. Michele Bachmann, these conservative Christians are taking a fresh approach to feminism.
More and more, conservative congregations are choosing to leave liberal denominations. Rarely does the opposite occur with a liberal congregation withdrawing to unite with a more conservative denomination.
