Tens of thousands of people are expected to flock to Benton next weekend for Amplify Fest, described by organizers as "the largest free Christian music festiva…
A new book about the spiritual life of Richard Nixon is scheduled to be released Thursday, 50 years to the day after the 37th president of the United States an…
JONESBORO -- The sewing ministry at First United Methodist Church is making hundreds of pillowcases to give to young hospital patients.
JONESBORO -- Despite spending more than $1 million on litigation, a group of former United Methodists in Jonesboro has failed to reclaim the massive downtown p…
Worshippers began gathering this week for Davidson Methodist Campground's 140th annual revival encampment, the largest Wesleyan gathering of its kind in Arkans…
Sixteen months after a tornado destroyed their original 10,000-square-foot house of worship on Donovan Briley Boulevard, Park View Baptist Church in North Litt…
FORREST CITY -- Diocesan Bishop John T.W. Harmon let Episcopalians in this Delta town know Sunday that they must join forces if they want to survive.
Jehovah's Witnesses wrapped up their 2024 annual convention Sunday in Little Rock, one day after baptizing 17 believers at the Statehouse Convention Center.
In a state with one of the country's highest divorce rates, two Christian nonprofit groups have joined forces in an effort to help more couples thrive.
After losing scores of its congregations following a nationwide denominational schism, the Arkansas Conference of the United Methodist Church met in Hot Spring…
At Little Rock’s First Christian Church, love of country — and the men and women who have served in its armed forces — is a year-round commitment.
A former employee of Immanuel Baptist Church in Little Rock who was charged more than five years ago in the sexual abuse of a young girl at the church was arre…
INDIANAPOLIS -- A year ago in New Orleans, the Southern Baptist Convention's Abuse Reform Implementation Task Force unveiled what they called their Ministry Ch…
INDIANAPOLIS — Members of the Southern Baptist Convention narrowly rejected an effort to add a bar on female pastors to the organization’s constitution Wednesd…
INDIANAPOLIS — Southern Baptists, voting at their annual meeting, winnowed their list of candidates for convention president Tuesday evening from six to three.
FARMERSVILLE, Texas -- Baptists nationwide are aware of an Arkansas church's flawed response to child sexual abuse and don't want to repeat its mistakes, South…
Thousands of Southern Baptists will gather in Indianapolis for their annual meeting this week, electing new leadership and debating whether to place a ban on f…
FARMERSVILLE, Texas -- Southern Baptist Convention President Bart Barber doesn't sport a "Make America Great Again" hat. He doesn't wave a "Jesus is my savior;…
The Arkansas Travelers' Faith and Family Night is June 8 at Dickey-Stephens Park in North Little Rock and features a pregame question and answer session with s…
Russian president Vladimir Putin isn't just waging war against Ukraine, he's also battling to extinguish religious freedom, an Arkansas expatriate is warning.
Weeks after the nation's second-largest Protestant denomination dropped its ban on same-sex marriage, one of its Little Rock congregations has voted to elimina…
It's easy to find Protestant preachers on the Central Arkansas airwaves; if Ark of Heaven Media has its way, Little Rock will soon have a robust Roman Catholic…
A former Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary administrator was charged this week with falsification of records related to sexual abuse allegations after …
People gather at Bethlehem United Methodist Church in Lonoke County each year around Memorial Day to renew acquaintances and remember the dead.
It started in March as a Wednesday night Bible study for Christians with ties to Immanuel Baptist Church, a chance to sing, pray, read the scriptures and recei…
Rather than fighting over whether to leave the denomination, members of Central United Methodist Church in Fayetteville last year crafted what they called an "…
Long before Social Security was created and the term "senior citizen" was coined, the residents of Grant County began gathering once a year to sing the ancient…
An Arkansas priest, tapped to attend a gathering of his peers from around the globe, met Pope Francis earlier this month, chatting in Spanish with the bishop o…
A woman accused of sexually assaulting a teenage boy while she was a volunteer at Immanuel Baptist Church in Little Rock has been fired from her job as a teach…
The Southern Baptist Convention lost 241,032 members last year, falling to 12,982,090, according to statistics released this week.
Appearing at Little Rock's Ron Robinson Theater on Thursday, Alberta discussed church and state as well as his latest book, "The Kingdom, The Power, and the Gl…
Jesus used agricultural metaphors when delivering his message; Jeff Ginn, a vice president with the Southern Baptist Convention's International Mission Board, …
Daniel Block, a Brandeis University student, has been named a Truman Scholar.
PITTSBURGH -- At the Tree of Life synagogue, site of the deadliest act of antisemitism in U.S. history, most of the building has been razed, making way for a r…
Friends, family members and admirers paid tribute Saturday to one of the state's longtime statesmen, attending a Service of Witness to the Resurrection for Dav…
Those remaining loyal to the denomination are entitled to the First United Methodist Church building in Jonesboro and other assets, a judge there ruled Monday.
Friends of former U.S. Sen. David Pryor are mourning his passing, and politicians past and present are paying tribute to his decades of service to the state of…
David Pryor, a Democrat who spent nearly 25 years on Capitol Hill and two terms in the governor’s mansion, died today in Little Rock. He was 89.
United Methodists from Arkansas and around the world will gather in Charlotte, N.C., next week for the start of the denomination's quadrennial general conferen…
Electronic keyboards, drums and guitars may be the instruments of choice at some houses of worship, but not at First United Methodist Church and St. Peter's Ep…
Catholic Bishop Anthony Taylor presided at a Mass of Hope and Healing on Sunday for survivors of child sexual abuse, where he asked God to "hear the cries of o…
A popular podcaster and story teller plans to bring part of the Old Testament to life Wednesday during an appearance at the City Center in Little Rock.
A former Immanuel Baptist Church volunteer and teacher surrendered to police Wednesday morning after authorities say she sexually assaulted a teenager starting…
Immanuel Baptist Church Lead Pastor Steven Smith, whose handling of child sex abuse accusations had drawn sharp criticism from some in the Little Rock congrega…
City Church in Russellville has 26 acres of undeveloped property in the path of Monday's total solar eclipse and it's allowing people to pitch tents on the sit…
An Irish poet with a substantial following on both sides of the Atlantic will be coming to Little Rock later this month to speak at Saint Mark's Episcopal Chur…
ST. ALBANS -- British Christians by the hundreds completed a pilgrimage this week from their homes and houses of worship to the Cathedral and Abbey Church of S…
On Easter, exactly one year after a tornado leveled Jacksonville First Assembly of God, the congregation will gather for its first Sunday morning service at it…
Clergy in the Episcopal Diocese of Arkansas gathered at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Little Rock on Tuesday to reaffirm their ordination vows and retrieve th…
One year after the March 31 tornado struck, Sunday School classrooms at Amboy United Methodist Church in North Little Rock still have boarded up windows, but p…
