Can a Creedless Religion Make It Another 50 Years?

BALTIMORE (RNS) A recent Sunday service at the First Unitarian Church of Baltimore ended with an apology. Laurel Mendes explained that religious doctrine had been duly scrubbed from the hymns in the congregation’s Sunday program. But Mendes, a neo-pagan lay member who...

Two Kinds of Christianity: Which Do You Follow?

There are some major differences between belief-centered Christianity that focuses on creeds and doctrine and the kind that puts a priority on following in the way of Jesus. Some Christians mistakenly think that in the beginning of the Jesus movement there was...

Proposal Sparks Debate Over Baptists and Creeds

A call to unify Baptists by reciting the Apostles’ Creed at a global gathering next year is proving divisive for some. “Fundamentalists are not the only creedalists within the Baptist camp,” Bruce Prescott of Mainstream Oklahoma Baptists wrote in a...