Young, evangelical, and African American churchgoers ask the most. When churchgoers show up to their church’s worship service, they’re often hoping to have a guest with them. A Lifeway Research study ...

Current and former congregants of Gateway Fellowship Church, members of the public and local social justice organizations are decrying the Poulsbo church’s plan to bring Joseph Backholm, a ...

I am a practicing Catholic. As a black woman in Protestant America, this has not always been the easiest denomination to be affiliated with. The scent of incense wafting through a gothic-styled church ...

Although I see these invites as well-meaning, they make me deeply uncomfortable. By Kwame Anthony Appiah Kwame Anthony Appiah has been the The New York Times Magazine’s Ethicist columnist since 2015 ...

The more often people go, the more likely they are to invite someone to come along. America’s Protestants like to invite their friends to church. At least once in a while. Nearly two-thirds of ...

When the Rev. John Morris says the planned renovations to St. John’s Episcopal Church in Lancaster will “make the doors a little wider and the invitation a little warmer,” he’s speaking literally as ...

The Hindu nationalist Indian prime minister extended the invitation during an Oct. 30 meeting with the Holy Father at the Vatican. Pope Francis greets Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a ...