Church

While preparing to build a new playground at the Christ Episcopal Church, members discovered items buried underground that date back to before the church was founded.

Katelyn MacDonald has been stopped on the street, in coffee shops, and at a baseball game after she was recognized from her social media videos, where she covers pop songs by LGBTQ+ artists.

Elevation Church, a North Carolina-based megachurch that draws thousands, is withdrawing its affiliation.

Since its premiere in 1998, the play has faced backlash from conservative religious groups for its portrayal of Jesus.

Anita grew up betwixt and between two religious communities and never felt like she fully belonged to either. The upside? She had a lot of room to figure things out on her own. She talks with two people who didn't find that freedom until they left their conservative religions. They tell her about extracting themselves from tight-knit religious communities and reconnecting with their sexuality and identity on their own terms.

Robinson is widely expected to seek the Republican nomination for Governor in 2024, and his speech at the Freedom House was part of his tour of North Carolina churches.

Charlotte needs land for affordable housing, and local churches are stepping forward to help with donations of land, money and even entire buildings.

Anita grew up in the 1990s, the era of Purity Culture. Unlike Britney (Spears) and Jessica (Simpson), she had no purity ring, but she's seen how abstinence messaging shaped her generation's relationship with sex, religion, pleasure and their bodies. She talks to two folks who've been unraveling their own indoctrination, and meets someone who's on an mission to help parents recover from purity culture and raise a more sex-positive generation.

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed gun-rights legislation on Friday that would allow parishioners at more churches to be armed, marking the second year in a row that he's blocked the idea.

Churches are taking varied approaches to resuming in-person worship since guidance for mask wearing and gatherings has loosened.