Immanuel Baptist official quit over pastor’s actions
Months before Immanuel Baptist Church Lead Pastor Steven Smith apologized to his congregation for failing to tell them about an accusation that a former minist…
Months before Immanuel Baptist Church Lead Pastor Steven Smith apologized to his congregation for failing to tell them about an accusation that a former minist…
Immanuel Baptist Church Pastor Steve Smith ignored Southern Baptist-recommended guidance by failing to tell his Little Rock congregation when Patrick Stephen M…
Immanuel Baptist Church Pastor Steven Smith, reading from a prepared statement, apologized Sunday morning to members for failing to inform them about an accusa…
A former Immanuel Baptist Church ministry employee who was accused of sexually abusing an elementary school-age child and received a suspended jail sentence as…
There'll be plenty of candle wax, candy and citrus at St. Mark's Episcopal Church on Dec. 17 as its members gather for a service to celebrate the season and ma…
For nearly 2,000 years, the priesthood was a vocation for men only.
Little Rock Rabbi Barry Block traveled to Israel last month, meeting with survivors of the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre and showing solidarity with fellow Reform Juda…
Four years after its incorporation, the Conway-based National Association of Christian Lawmakers is growing and gathering national attention.
Alister McGrath, an internationally renowned author, academic, Anglican priest and Christian "apologist," will preach at Pulaski Heights United Methodist Churc…
While other Arkansans are eating turkey, watching football games or shopping for Black Friday bargains, Dr. Joseph F. Margolick will be thousands of miles away…
With war raging between Israel and Hamas, a diverse group gathered in Little Rock this week to share a meal, swap recipes, offer thanks and pray for peace.
Eleven years after its near-death experience, the Great Passion Play in Eureka Springs has retired the debts that nearly killed it.
The Church at Rock Creek in Little Rock has broken ground on a new 11,000-square-foot food bank center.
A Christian studies program at one of the state's toughest prisons will soon be housed in a new 5,000-square-foot building, paid for entirely by private funds.
As he heads toward retirement, Bishop Larry R. Benfield, the Arkansas Episcopal diocese's shepherd since January 2007, is getting high marks for his leadership…
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Little Rock will have a Remembrance Sunday service this weekend honoring members of the armed forces who have died defending the…
A lot owned by Little Rock's Trinity Episcopal Cathedral is being turned into a community garden, with help from a Texas-based spirits maker and the Arkansas H…
A few years before the Civil War, as Arkansas lawmakers worked to expel freed Black people from the state, a Black businessman named Nathan Warren decided to l…
If you stop by one of the kitchens at First Pentecostal Church in North Little Rock this weekend, you'll likely encounter Eva Gee and her tres leches cakes.
New York megachurch pastor Jim Cymbala told Arkansas Baptists on Tuesday that the American evangelical movement is in deep, deep trouble.
The Methodist Foundation for Arkansas has received a Compelling Preaching Initiative grant of nearly $1.25 million from the Lilly Endowment.
Brad Lewter, pastor of Grand Avenue Baptist Church in Fort Smith, was elected Wednesday to serve as president of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention.
Brad Lewter, pastor of Grand Avenue Baptist Church in Fort Smith, was elected Wednesday to serve as president of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention.
The Arkansas Baptist State Convention will elect new officers and consider updating its articles of incorporation and bylaws today in Jonesboro during its 170t…
Southern Baptists will gather in Jonesboro next week to elect new Arkansas Baptist State Convention officers and to conduct other business.
Jay McDaniel is best known as an author and educator at Hendrix College, but he's also a musician who uses his talents to brighten the lives of elderly people,…
Pulaski Heights Baptist Church has tapped retired Arkansas Supreme Court Associate Justice Robert L. Brown to speak at its second annual Kolb Lecture on Faith …
The Arkansas Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church voted overwhelmingly Sunday to let 62 more of its congregations leave, joining more than 100 othe…
Following the departure of more than 100 Arkansas congregations from the United Methodist Church over the past year, lay members and clergy from the denominati…
Hamas' attack last week on Israel, targeting unarmed civilians as well as military personnel, left hundreds dead and an entire nation reeling.
Christian recording artist Crowder, who performed at the First Security Amphitheater last year, is returning to Little Rock, this time to play at the 83rd Arka…
Dozens more Arkansas congregations have voted to sever ties with the United Methodist Church, hoping to join thousands of others that have already left the nat…
After serving 10 months in an interim capacity, former Ouachita Baptist University President Rex Horne has been chosen to serve as executive director of the Ar…
One week after Hamas's bloody attack on Israel, a Little Rock synagogue tonight is holding what it's calling a Shabbat Service of Solidarity With Our People in…
Leaders of a small, relatively new Reformed body are gathering this weekend to celebrate the installation of Terry Simm as pastor of Grace Presbyterian Church …
In honor of St. Francis of Assisi, Arkansas' Christian leaders are bestowing God's blessings this month on domesticated as well as exotic members of the animal…
Animal blessings
Churches of Christ have a supply and demand problem -- thousands of houses of worship and not enough preachers to fill the pulpits.
The Legacy Grandparenting Summit, billed as the "only national conference on Christian grandparenting," will draw a multitude of middle-aged and senior citizen…
In London, Washington and Little Rock as well, lawyers and judges will be gathering next week to pray for the blessings of God and the guidance of the Holy Spi…
Little Rock musician Trevor Bates has recorded an unconventional religious-themed album; it's not the sort of music praise and worship teams typically sing or …
Colin MacKnight is not only a highly acclaimed organist and director of music at Little Rock's Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, he's also a tenacious talent scout,…
Merrick Fagan is a bass player and bartender, not a rabbi, but during the High Holy Days, he is entrusted with a sacred, God-ordained task.
Grace Lutheran Church in Little Rock is buzzing with activity since adding a midweek dinner, choir practice and Bible study.
Park Hill Presbyterian Church spent its infancy in a North Little Rock movie theater and its childhood and adolescence in a spartan former military chapel.
The rector of St. Andrew's Anglican Church in Little Rock has been selected to serve as a bishop in the Anglican Mission in America.
Two years ago, Apostle Karla K. Runner organized a prayer meeting on the steps of the Arkansas state Capitol, urging fellow Christian women to "raise up a cry …
Shackled by nearly $700,000 in debt and facing a spike in interest rates, worshippers at Lakewood United Methodist Church in North Little Rock asked God this y…
In a park overlooking a former Little Rock abortion clinic, Catholic Bishop Anthony Taylor and other opponents of legalized abortion will gather today to mark …
For the first time since its founding in 1866, Little Rock's Congregation B'nai Israel has hired a student cantor to help lead its sacred music on an ongoing b…