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At the end of the high-energy praise and worship gathering at First Corinthian Baptist Church in Harlem, New York City, two days before Tuesday’s mayoral election, pastor Michael Walrond welcomed a guest to the stage.
“We always let any candidate come as long as they’re willing to do one thing: stay and worship,” Walrond said....

The pages of Scripture are soaked with forgiveness. In book after book, the Bible traces God’s redemptive plan to forgive those who repent of their sins and place their faith in him. As people who have been freely forgiven through the work of Christ...

When training preachers, I remind them that terribly delivered sermons do not do any lasting damage. If a message is confusing, badly structured, poorly illustrated, or tedious, it may not be ideal (and it certainly is a missed opportunity), but it is...

Over the last ten centuries, Nikolaikirche—a Protestant church in Eisenach, Germany—has witnessed its share of war and civil strife, dictators and destruction. But this year, in the encroaching darkness of early autumn, its Romanesque stone arches are...