Mark Bishop and Robert Smith Jr. brought inspirational and energetic preaching to those gathered at First Baptist Cold Spring ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Among sermon writers, there is fascination — and unease — over the fast-expanding abilities of artificial intelligence chatbots. For now, the evolving consensus among clergy is this: ...

Five Christian pastors will no longer have to turn their sermons over to attorneys for the city of Houston. Instead, they will be forced to turn over their speeches related to the Houston Equal Rights ...

HOUSTON -- Houston city attorneys are no longer seeking through subpoenas sermons from five pastors who publicly opposed an ordinance banning discrimination against gay and transgender residents.

(RNS) The ordinance bans discrimination among businesses that serve the public, private employers, in housing and in city employment and city contracting. (RNS) Evangelical leaders are angry after ...

Latino Christian leaders meeting in Southern California discussed how best to pastor congregations newly traumatized by the Trump mass deportation policy.

Houston's embattled equal rights ordinance took another legal turn this week when it surfaced that city attorneys, in an unusual step, subpoenaed sermons given by local pastors who oppose the law and ...

Houston Mayor Annise Parker announced on Friday that the city would narrow the scope of a controversial subpoena that asked five local pastors for copies of some of their sermons and communications.

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- The fight over Houston's Equal Rights Ordinance, or HERO, goes on, despite a Texas Supreme Court decision that ruled the anti-discrimination initiative has to either be repealed by ...

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