Christianity Today

Calling the Free Church of Scotland "Wee Frees" is outdated and offensive, its moderator has said (BBC)

The Assemblies of God is the fastest-growing religious body in Minnesota at a time when other Protestant groups are shrinking. (Star Tribune)

But Protestant population is shrinking as "unbranded" religion grows. (Gallup)

Evangelical United Methodist groups are teaming up with evangelical groups in other mainline Protestant denominations to engage in joint ministries and to explore cooperatively planting churches and sending missionaries, offering incubator facilities to support new church plants, providing theological education and sharing space with dislocated congregations. (UMNS)

THE Apostolic Christian Council of Zimbabwe is an indigenous church organisation launched to defend and uphold the interests of indigenous churches that have been for a long time regarded as illegitimate. (allAfrica.com)

Its numbers and coffers shrinking, the church votes for pet funerals but offers little to the traditional faithful. (Jay Akasie, The Wall Street Journal)

After a close vote at the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) convention, the wording that a union is between “a man and a woman” was retained. (The New York Times)

Episcopal Church agenda includes proposed liturgy for same-sex unions (Indianapolis Star)

Brown is part of a new wave of Southern Baptists who are redefining what it means to be a part of America's largest Protestant denomination. (Press-Enterprise)

One hundred sixty-seven years after forming over the right to appoint slaveholders as missionaries and 17 years after apologizing for the denomination’s racist past, the Southern Baptist Convention elected its first African-American president June 19.