HOUSES OF WORSHIP

Opening God’s Door to Hate: The Terrible Conundrum for Today’s Spiritual Leaders

“I welcomed a terrorist into my congregation. I live with that responsibility.”

Like many Americans, I tend to take for granted that we have religious freedom in this country.

Why We’re Rejoicing as Houses of Worship Reopen

What the pandemic showed me is that we can no longer take our faith and congregations for granted. A time may come again where we could be separated indefinitely from the real-world, flesh-and-blood, brick-and-mortar, united practice of the religions we hold so dear. As such, since our church re-opened, my family and I have been even more “religious” about attending.

Can Casual Bigotry End Lives?

Recently a 17-year-old white woman was discovered to be planning a copycat mass murder of Black congregants who attended Bethel African American Methodist Episcopal Church in Gainesville, Georgia.

Houses of Worship Plagued by “Zoombombing“

“They were snickering, they started drawing red marks for blood,” recalled Jimmy McGee, Impact Movement president, who was leading the meeting. “Then they started calling out by our names. By that time we realized we couldn’t control the Zoom call. So we abandoned the meeting. When we got on our next call, they hacked right back in and started playing pornographic pictures.”