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By Leonardo Blair, Senior Reporter Monday, May 04, 2026 iStock/Dmitriy Fesenko Compared with previous generations, more of America’s youngest adults, popularly known as Generation Z, believe that you can have a fulfilling life without children and that marriage is not necessary to provide children with a stable home, new data shows. While most Gen Z […]
By Leonardo Blair, Senior Reporter Friday, May 01, 2026 Dale Sanders Sr., is a pastor at Fifth African Baptist Church of New Orleans, La., and the Second New Guide Missionary Baptist Church of Metairie, La. | Screenshot/Facebook/Dale Sanders A Louisiana pastor indicted for allegedly embezzling more than $343,000 from one of two churches he leads […]
I flew back into Dallas, Texas, this week from Africa—and what I heard in American Christian spaces troubled me more than the very culture we’ve been warning about. It was just a few years ago that conservative Christians were sounding the alarm over what felt like a disturbing cultural drift. We spoke—and often complained—about our […]
There are usually three ways to talk about the state of a church: growing, plateaued, or in decline. Researchers from the Hartford Institute for Religion Research have found that the median congregation grew from 65 in 2020 to about 70 today. Headline from various news organizations? “Worship attendance at church up for first time in […]
According to Arthur Brooks, “You need to be bored.” In a short, straightforward YouTube mini-talk, the Harvard professor and best-selling author insisted that, far from being something to overcome, boredom is necessary for human flourishing. It is, in fact, a practice to cultivate, and the commitment to avoid boredom at all costs is behind many of our worst […]
By Ryan Foley, Christian Post Reporter Wednesday, April 29, 2026 iStock/StockPlanets A new survey shows growing support among parents and teachers for allowing public school students to receive voluntary, off-campus religious instruction during the school day, as concerns about student mental health continue to rise. The survey, conducted by RMG Research and shared first with […]
In 1869, at a meeting of the Metaphysical Society in London, English biologist and anthropologist Thomas Huxley coined the term “agnostic” to describe those who, like himself, were neither theists nor atheists. Claiming instead intellectual ‘humility,’ Huxley claimed to know that anything unknowable to science could not bereal knowledge since it could not be empirically […]
By Leah MarieAnn Klett, Assistant Editor Monday, April 27, 2026 The Durupinar formation site in Eastern Turkey is what some believe to be the resting spot of Noah’s Ark from the Bible. | Getty Images Apologist Wesley Huff is pushing back against renewed claims that modern technology has identified the location of Noah’s Ark, calling […]
By Christian TodayMonday, April 27, 2026 Raye speaks onstage at the 2026 iHeartRadio Music Awards at Dolby Theatre on March 26, 2026, in Los Angeles, California. | Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for iHeartRadio In a world obsessed with being seen, heard and validated online, Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Raye has made a refreshingly countercultural decision: stepping away from […]
By Leonardo Blair, Senior Reporter Monday, April 27, 2026 President Donald Trump reads 2 Chronicles 7:11-22 in celebration of America’s 250th anniversary. | YouTube/ Pure Flix and America Reads the Bible While 5% of white Evangelicals see President Donald Trump as a very religious person, a significant minority see him as somewhat religious, and a […]