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By Leonardo Blair, Senior Reporter Thursday, September 03, 2026 The late Pierre Damas Bel, 20. | Instagram/pierre_d_bel_7 Carl Ruby, senior pastor of Central Christian Church in Springfield, Ohio, has blamed United States immigration policy for the death of Haitian Wright State University student Pierre Damas Bel, who took his own life Monday by walking into […]
By Michael Gryboski, Editor Thursday, September 03, 2026 Pastor Albert Oliveira (right) leads a baptism service on July 23, 2025, at First Baptist Church (FBC) Gordon. | Courtesy FBC Gordon A Brazilian pastor who was compelled to leave the United States last year due to an expired visa has recently returned to his Texas church […]
By Michael Gryboski, Editor Wednesday, September 02, 2026 kadirdemir/iStock Maine’s highest court has ruled that a father can prevent his daughter from attending a Calvary Chapel with her mother in a contested custody case after a lower court accepted an expert’s claim that the congregation is akin to a “cult.” The Maine Supreme Judicial Court […]
By Michael Gryboski, Editor Tuesday, September 01, 2026 View of the stage during the United Methodist Church’s special session General Conference inside the Dome at America’s Center in St. Louis, Missouri, on Sunday, Feb. 24, 2019. | United Methodist News Service/Kathleen Barry More than $1.6 million in funds was reportedly stolen from a regional body […]
Among the many milestones marked in 2026 is the 500th anniversary of William Tyndale’s translation of the New Testament, and later the Old Testament, into English. His commitment that common people should have the Bible in their own language eventually led to his execution. Still, his translation has influenced English Bibles ever since. Tyndale, an […]
By Michael Gryboski, Editor Monday, August 31, 2026 Devin Cyrus Carroll, a 23-year-old former Baptist pastor who was arrested in August 2026 for allegedly embezzling nearly $58,000 from a North Carolina church. He was also arrested in 2025 for alleged third-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor. | horrycountysc.gov A former pastor has been arrested […]
Sports, in some ways, have always been a microcosm of real life. I remember the days when Wide World of Sports aired, and one of the famous lines was “the thrill of victory, and the agony of defeat.” That line sums up sports (and life) in one sentence. As someone who has loved sports, whether […]
John Stott once wrote that “[i]t is a wonderful privilege to be a missionary or a pastor, if God calls us to it.” However, he continued, it is a mistake to organize callings into a hierarchy, as some Christians and Christian traditions wrongly do. In his book Christian Mission in the Modern World, Stott wrote, […]
The London Times recently reported that … a study of the leisure habits of nearly a quarter of a million Americans found that the number who spent time reading on a typical day (including newspapers, magazines and audiobooks) fell by 40 percent between 2003 and 2023. In Britain, a 2024 survey by the […]
By Dennis Lennox, CP Contributor Sunday, August 30, 2026 Trinity Cathedral (Episcopal) in San Jose, California, was built in the 1860s. | Dennis Lennox San Jose, California’s third-largest city, has a larger population than San Francisco yet remains relatively overlooked. It is also closer to the companies that define Silicon Valley. Think of it as […]