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As a fierce advocate of women and children, I’ve followed the sexual abuse scandal in the Southern Baptist Convention for years. One of my first articles investigated John MacArthur, a reformed Baptist, who told Beth Moore to “go home” after speaking at her church on Mother’s Day. Moore, a three-decade member of the SBC until […]
Pastor Mike McClure of Calvary Chapel San Jose speaks to his congregation on Sunday, Nov. 1, 2020, during an in-person service. | Screenshot: Facebook/Calvary Chapel An appellate court has ruled that a California church does not have to pay over $200,000 in fines for violating gathering restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic. A three-judge panel on […]
Far from being an otherworldly religion, Christianity teaches both the importance and goodness of life in this world. In fact, from Jesus’ healing ministry to the work of modern missionary doctors, a consistent feature of the work of the Church in the world has been to care for the sick and needy, and not […]
Washington Memorial Chapel in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. | Dennis Lennox At first glance, this church looks old. Located on 26 acres of land, it overlooks the fields of Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, where the ragged Continental Army under Gen. George Washington famously spent the winter of 1777. Many visitors probably assume it predates the American Revolution. […]
Kirk Cameron appears during an interview with The Christian Post in Nashville, Tennessee. | The Christian Post/Leah Klett When Kirk Cameron first watched a documentary about one woman’s decision to adopt instead of having an abortion and the story of her son and the couple who adopted him, he knew it was one he wanted […]
Raiders quarterback Derek Carr | USA Today Sports/Kelly L Cox Las Vegas Raiders quarterback Derek Carr praised his parents for teaching him to make his faith his first priority and said that, as a child, he wouldn’t play if a game fell on a Sunday. “I was raised in the church. My grandpa was a […]
A Texas woman recently donated her kidney to a stranger in New Jersey, saving his life. In June, 48-year-old Roy McIntosh received a kidney transplant at Virtua Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Camden from Heather Schafer, who lives in Harker Heights, Texas. According to CBN News, Schafer learned that McIntosh needed a kidney transplant […]
On Monday, a California appeals court ruled that a San Jose church does not have to pay the more than $200,000 in fines it accrued for violating COVID-19 restriction. The ruling, which was issued by a three-judge panel in California’s 6th District Court of Appeal, reverses several lower court decisions against Calvary Chapel San Jose, which […]
Five-year-old LaVonte’e Williams suffered fatal injuries after being shot at Lee Victory Recreation Park in Smyrna on Aug. 15, 2022, the day after he was baptized. | Courtesy Bishop Belita McMurry-Fite A pastor in Nashville, Tennessee, is sharing the legacy that she said has been left behind by a 5-year-old boy who was shot and […]
A Missouri pastor issued a public apology this week after a video clip from a recent Sunday sermon showing him berating his congregation for not buying him a luxury watch went viral. “I want to take this moment to address the now-viral video clip with me from a sermon given on August 7, 2022. Though […]