• Spiritual formation growing online

• Baptists respond to Texas tornadoes

• AU head says IRS scrutiny warranted

• Sexual-abuse resolution proposed for SBC

• SBC leader rejects Boy Scout compromise

• Missional before missional was cool

• Florida editor takes seminary post

• MK charged with campus arson

• Sex crimes, cover-up, alleged in lawsuit

• SBC leader compared to Martin Luther

• Supreme Court will hear church-state case over prayers at public meetings | Washington Post, 5/20

• Billy Graham isn't finished preaching yet | Raleigh News & Observer, 5/20

• A British strand of Islam is emerging as more people become converts | Economist, 5/18

• Texas legislature passes 'Merry Christmas bill' aimed at giving public schools more leeway to observe traditional winter celebrations | Texas Tribune, 5/17

• Seminary graduates not always ministering from the pulpit | Washington Post, 5/17

• Church of Scotland revises controversial Israel report | BBC, 5/17

• Georgia governor engaged in Bible dispute | Philadelphia Inquirer, 5/16

• Russian church in China has first service in 51 years | Kuala Lumpur News Straits Times, 5/15

• Christian churches back Jews facing anti-Semitism in Hungary | Reuters, 5/14

• Remembering Roger Williams and 350 years of religious freedom | Rhode Island Public Radio, 5/13

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• Humanists find ways to say 'I do' without God

• Catholics split on proposed gay Boy Scouts change

• Troubled Missouri diocese to pay $600,000 abuse settlement

• Morehouse College to allow pastor who rapped Obama to speak

• Franklin Graham calls IRS probe of ministry finances 'un-American'

• Canadians turning away from organized religion

• Congregations tend the soil and the soul with vegetable gardens

• Left behind: German home-schooling family loses U.S. asylum bid