By Ian M. Giatti, Christian Post Reporter Friday, May 08, 2026 LiudmylaSupynska/iStock A private event at a Texas city-owned water park has been canceled following backlash and a direct threat by Gov. Greg Abbott to withhold more than $500,000 in state public safety funding. A spokesperson for the City of Grand Prairie said Thursday the […]
By Leonardo Blair, Senior Reporter Friday, May 08, 2026 An aerial shot of tornado-ravaged Coaltown Baptist Church in Purvis, Mississippi. | Screenshot/Facebook/Photojournalist Brian Emfinger Members of Coaltown Baptist Church in Purvis, Mississippi, are thanking God after one of at least 14 tornadoes that swept across the state Wednesday, leaving 17 people injured, ripped the roof […]
By Leonardo Blair, Senior Reporter Friday, May 08, 2026 Pastor Greg Locke | TKO Publicity Greg Locke, pastor of Global Vision Bible Church in Lebanon, Tennessee, announced Friday that his 20-year-old son, Evan Roberts Locke, has died. The pastor’s announcement was made on his social media just a few hours after he was told his […]
By Leonardo Blair, Senior Reporter Friday, May 08, 2026 Daniel Savala, 67. | Police photo Daniel Savala, a 70-year-old itinerant minister and a convicted sex offender who once had ties to the Chi Alpha Campus Ministries sponsored by the Assemblies of God, was sentenced by a Texas judge to 30 years in prison without the […]
By Jon Brown, Christian Post Reporter Friday, May 08, 2026 An eight-pointed UAP is shown hovering in the sky in a 2013 video released by the Pentagon in the first batch of files on May 8, 2026. | Courtesy U.S. Department of War The Pentagon released its first batch of files related to unidentified anomalous […]
This month marks the 130-year anniversary of one of the most infamous cases in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) challenged a notorious “Jim Crow” law, one of many that replaced slavery with segregation in the South. The now nearly universally discredited decision from the Court is worthy of reflection, especially […]
By Leonardo Blair, Senior Reporter Thursday, May 07, 2026 Pastor Greg Locke preaching at Global Vision Bible Church in Tennessee, 2023 | TKO Publicity More than four years after claiming that he had proof that two of America’s most well-known televangelists were pedophiles, Pastor Greg Locke is recanting his statements, claiming he never had any […]
By Leonardo Blair, Senior Reporter Thursday, May 07, 2026 Larry Cook (L) and his wife, Sharon (R), founded Real Believers Faith Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1998. | YouTube/Real Believers Larry and Sharon Cook, co-founders of the Real Believers Faith Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, are facing multiple charges from the Minnesota attorney general for allegedly […]
By Leah MarieAnn Klett, Assistant Editor Thursday, May 07, 2026 Hannah Harper performs on “American Idol” | YouTube/American Idol Faith has become one of the defining themes for this season of “American Idol,” with numerous contestants openly discussing Christianity, worship and church backgrounds. Finalists Jordan McCullough, Hannah Harper and Keyla Richardson repeatedly spoke about the […]
As a pastor and professor of theology, you can imagine I’ve been asked a number of questions over the years on a wide variety of topics. But recently, someone asked Senator Ted Cruz of Texas a question related to his Christian faith that I confess has never been posed to me before: And even more […]