Emily McFarlan Miller

• Harvest Bible Chapel Apologizes as it Installs New Elder Board
  Harvest Bible Chapel has apologized both privately and publicly to a freelance journalist and two bloggers whom it sued last fall.
  Monday, May 6, 2019
• United Methodist Court Upholds Ban on LGBTQ Clergy, Same Sex Marriage
  The United Methodist Church’s top court has upheld much of the Traditional Plan approved earlier this year, continuing the global denomination’s ban on the ordination and marriage of its LGBTQ...
  Monday, April 29, 2019
• ECFA Ousts Chicago-Area Megachurch Harvest Bible Chapel
  The Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, a Christian financial watchdog group, has terminated the membership of Harvest Bible Chapel.
  Monday, April 22, 2019
• Chrissy Metz on Breakthrough: Everything Happens as it Should
  Everybody knows what it’s like to suffer alongside a loved one in crisis. That includes Chrissy Metz. And, the “This Is Us” star said, that’s what drew her to the role of Joyce Smith in the new...
  Wednesday, April 17, 2019
• ‘Only God Can Do That’: How Nebraskans Are Reconciling Faith and Flooding
  In the days following major midwestern floods this spring, people of faith prayed for their neighbors and got busy lending a hand.
  Tuesday, April 9, 2019
• Churches and Other Faith-Based Groups Lend a Hand after Historic Nebraska Floods
  Tara Hollis couldn’t see any floodwaters when she first peered out the window at 5 a.m. on the morning of March 14. Cars still were driving by on the road, Hollis said. Half an hour later, water...
  Monday, April 1, 2019
• Most US Christians Find Trump Signing Bibles Inappropriate, Poll Finds
  If Donald Trump were the pope or another Christian leader, the majority of U.S. Christians likely wouldn’t have minded that he signed a Bible.
  Thursday, March 21, 2019
• LifeWay Christian Resources to Close All Stores in 2019
  LifeWay Christian Resources announced Wednesday (March 20) it will close all 170 of its brick-and-mortar stores this year.
  Thursday, March 21, 2019
• ECFA Suspends Chicago-Area Megachurch Harvest Bible Chapel
  The Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, a Christian financial watchdog group, has suspended Harvest Bible Chapel, a Chicago-area megachurch, after church leaders admitted “a lack of...
  Tuesday, March 19, 2019
• What's the United Methodist Church's Special Session About?
  You've probably heard the United Methodist Church is meeting this weekend in St. Louis, and that it has something to do with sexuality and a possible schism...
  Monday, February 25, 2019
• Harvest Announces Executive Committee Will Resign, More Changes after MacDonald Fired
  Harvest Bible Chapel, an embattled Chicago-area megachurch, announced this past weekend that the executive committee of its elders will resign.
  Wednesday, February 20, 2019
• Why ‘Silent Night’ and the Stories Around it Endure 200 Years Later
  It was the night before Christmas, and not a creature was stirring. Except for the mice at St. Nicholas Church in Oberndorf, Austria, who were busy chewing through the bellows of the organ.
  Monday, December 17, 2018
• Ending the Year #MeToo Went to Church, Wheaton Summit to Discuss Evangelical Response
  Tuesday, December 11, 2018
• Death of Missionary Sparks Debate over Mission Work
  Some call him a martyr. Others call him a colonialist. A few just call him tragically misguided. Almost everyone, it seems, has an opinion about John Allen Chau.
  Friday, November 30, 2018
• Eugene Peterson, Author of ‘The Message’ and Pastor to Other Pastors, Dies at Age 85
  Eugene Peterson, the best-selling author of “The Message” and longtime pastor praised as a “shepherd’s shepherd,” passed away Monday morning (Oct. 22) at age 85.
  Tuesday, October 23, 2018
• As Refugee Admissions Drop, Fewer Persecuted Christians Admitted to US: World Relief
  The number of Christian refugees coming to the United States from the countries where Christians are most persecuted has dropped dramatically under President Trump’s administration.
  Friday, October 19, 2018
• Incoming Moody President Hopes to Give Historic Christian School a ‘Restart’
  Mark Jobe, the new president of Moody Bible Institute, is no stranger to helping old religious institutions find new life.
  Thursday, October 18, 2018
• What’s Next for Willow Creek?
  Heather Larson recalled a meeting when she had stood on the same stage to announce very different plans: Founding pastor Bill Hybels would be retiring, and Larson would take over as lead pastor....
  Monday, October 1, 2018