Within the larger discussion on church discipline, two questions that go to the heart of the issue continue to resist consensus. The first question concerns the spiritual status of those being ...

When you make it loving and redemptive. (Ed. note: Ken Sande says publicly disciplining sinful and wanton church members is good for the church, and it’s good for the one disciplined. Then why do so ...

(RNS) When Karen Hinkley decided to have her marriage annulled, she had no idea it would lead to a public shaming from one of the largest megachurches in America. After learning her husband was ...

I want to treat others the way I’d want to be treated when needing reproof. Debbie was a young woman in our congregation who had a knack for touching lives. One day she told me something that was ...

The recent church discipline case gone wrong at The Village Church has taken the Christian world by storm. While church leaders issued a public apology, the situation that led to the apology is much ...

Some conservative Christians are promoting a more aggressive approach to church discipline. But others say this approach does more damage than good. When Karen Hinkley decided to have her marriage ...

Abandonment of internal church discipline over the past half century has undermined the reforms of the Second Vatican Council, said the American cardinal who heads the Vatican's supreme court.

Roy • The Utah Supreme Court has revived a religious freedom dispute, instructing an Ogden court to take another look at a suit filed by a woman who alleged Jehovah’s Witnesses leaders in Roy ...

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