LINFEN, China -- Towering eight stories over wheat fields, the Golden Lamp Church was built to serve nearly 50,000 worshippers in the gritty heart of China's coal country.

With its combination name, the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) is a mainline Protestant denomination that seeks to keep a balance between strong adherence to Bible teachings and affording broad freedoms to people to discern theological truth for themselves.

With its combination name, the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) is a mainline Protestant denomination that seeks to keep a balance between strong adherence to Bible teachings and affording broad freedoms to people to discern theological truth for themselves.

Joani Castillo loves the Lord so much that she could just dance — or sing or act or mime. Yet she’s on a mission to help people cultivate and refine their skills of art and expression as callings from God to serve churches and the world.

A new church campus with 93,000 square feet of space may be impressive. But the church is fast to tout one specific feature: 32 restroom stalls for women.

The world used to be much smaller for Jewish groups trying to win Christian friends. Interfaith relations once were a matter of Jewish leaders shaking hands at the Vatican, seeking out mainline Protestants in the U.S. and Europe, and forging ties with American evangelicals over Israel.

Not to create a debate or anything, but I’d like to set the record straight regarding Edward F. Murphy’s letter about Mormons.

Christian Science lecturer Robert Gilbert, who has worked at the church’s world headquarters in Boston as an authority on spiritual healing and medicine, will give a free onehour lecture in March in Scottsdale and Mesa on the theme “Spirituality, Health and Well-Being: Explore the Healing Connection.”

On this Easter Sunday, multitudes of the faithful, along with those who casually attend church, will gather for outdoor sunrise services or worship inside grand sanctuaries and modest harbors of faith. They will celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ the Savior.

Christian theologian and author Margaret Starbird regarded it as blasphemy the first time she heard the assertion that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married and had a child together.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Umm Salam draws her curtains across her windows, then settles into an armchair in a living room festooned with colored lights and a portrait of Jesus on the cross. Her Christmas tree glitters in the corner.

A spiritual twist has been added to the cocktail of exercises known as yoga.

A sense of humor is essential to healthy living and I consider mine to be highly developed. I love to laugh and will giggle along with the crowd at some things that may seem a bit off-color or even irreverent.

A sense of humor is essential to healthy living and I consider mine to be highly developed. I love to laugh and will giggle along with the crowd at some things that may seem a bit off-color or even irreverent.

Mormons

Clergy Corner: Rev: James Gilchrist