Family

“Wedding of the Century” is a term tossed around far more often than every 100 years.

BOULDER, Colo. (BP) – Pastors trail other Christians in relational flourishing and many say their ministry challenges their marriages and families, Barna and Gloo said in the latest 2025 State of the Church release.

MUSTANG, Okla. (BP) – It was a Sunday, and Jason Doran really wanted to talk to his son.

BOGART, Ga. (BP) – In a society that too often highlights the faults of fathers, Southern Baptist author and pastor Josh Smith encourages churches this Father’s Day to empower and remind them of the gift of fatherhood.

WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP) – Many of the 30.8 percent of Americans whose mothers have died, as the U.S. Census Bureau counted in 2021, experienced the loss when they were not ready to process the pain.

It’s one thing to “rise to the occasion” when you are in front of the microphone and the multitude. It is quite another thing when there is no microphone and there is no multitude.

WEATHERFORD, Texas (BP) – The end of the Vietnam War, recognized on April 30, marked the end of a chapter for John Cope. But it also started another.

NASHVILLE (BP) – The Colorado House of Representatives has passed a law that would create legal grounds for the state to strip custody from parents who legislators say “misgender” their children.

WASHINGTON (BP) – A bipartisan congressional letter with more than 100 signatures has been delivered to President Donald Trump urging him to open discussions with China regarding its discontinued intercountry adoption program that left nearly 300 U.S. families in limbo.

(RNS) — Theologians, preachers and best-selling authors have long tried to explain why bad things happen to good people. But there’s a second question that doesn’t get as much attention.