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Top left: Messengers at the Southern Baptist Convention in Anaheim, California, June 14, 2022; student in a library. Bottom left: Brian Houston; worshipers leave Sunday service at Sukovska Baptist church on June 19, 2022, in Druzhkivka, Ukraine; Archie Battersbee. | Baptist Press/Camille Grochowski; Unsplash/Banter Snaps; Catalyst; Scott Olson/Getty Images; Christian Legal Centre Many topics dominated […]
Lakewood Music | Lakewood Church Lakewood Music members Alexandra Osteen and Ramiro Garcia have reflected on the importance of highlighting the goodness of God through song and using worship music as a medium to offer hope to a hurting world. The group, which launched out of Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, recently released […]
Among all the memorable moments in C.S. Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia, one of my favorites comes near the end of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Caspian and his crew land on an island inhabited by a retired star named Ramandu. True to form, young Eustace Scrubb puts his foot in his mouth: […]
The faithfulness that individual Christians demonstrate in their everyday lives makes a compelling case that the Christian worldview is both true and good. The Colson Center’s mission is to help Christians live faithfully to what is true and good, aligning both their personal convictions and public lives with revealed truth. It is a gift and grace […]
Archaeologists with the Israeli Antiquities Authority uncovered hundreds of artifacts during an excavation of a burial cave that is believed by some to be the tomb of Jesus’ midwife, Salome. “According to a Christian tradition, Salome was the midwife from Bethlehem, who was called to participate in the birth of Jesus,” IAA archaeologist Zvi Firer […]
Australian televangelist John McMartin has been found guilty of indecent assault, according to a letter from his former church. McMartin was the New South Wales state president of Australian Christian Churches, formerly called the Assemblies of God in Australia. In November 2020, police charged McMartin with a “sexual incident” from 2013. Police say the incident […]
Christmas is a time when families get together and celebrate traditions. While the holidays can be festive and exhausting, it can be easy to forget the reason for the season. As believers, we are remembering and celebrating the birth of Jesus. For Bible scholars and historians, we know Jesus was most likely not born on […]
A New York bishop robbed while delivering a sermon at his Brooklyn church earlier this year has been arrested for fraud, extortion and lying to the FBI. “As we allege today, Lamor Whitehead abused the trust placed in him by a parishioner, bullied a businessman for $5,000, then tried to defraud him of far more […]
A record-breaking number of Nativity scenes have been put on display in state capitols across the U.S. this Christmas. The special initiative was carried out by the non-profit public interest law firm The Thomas More Society and the American Nativity Scene, a group that seeks to place Nativity scenes at every state capitol in the […]
Hobby Lobby is running full-page newspaper ads nationwide this Christmas season declaring the true meaning of the holiday with a Bible-centric message: “O’ come let us adore Him, Christ the Lord.” The ad depicts the Wise Men and their camels entering a city with a bright star shining overhead. It reads: “‘For unto us a child […]