United Methodist Church bishops are calling for unity as its General Conference kicks off Tuesday after thousands of churches left the mainline Protestant denomination amid efforts to alter its official stance against homosexuality and ordination of LGBT individuals.

The 35th Annual U.S. Capitol Bible Reading Marathon, in which volunteers read every word of the Bible from cover to cover, kicks off Saturday afternoon and runs through Wednesday morning.?

How Bethany Jenkins's daily devotionals kickstart common-good Christianity in NYC.

This week we welcome a guest speaker (wink, wink)… Seriously, it’s good to have Pastor here and he kicks off our theme for the month, “Be Holy”.

Continuing our PUSHing forward theme for 2009, Pastor Hill asks the question “Are you willing?”. This kicks off our February topic.