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In June, I wrote that I had reached a tipping point: I no longer wanted to pastor anymore, and I wasn’t sure why. Looking back, I don’t believe that it had to do with stress as much as discouragement. If you are currently standing on a landmine, or if the explosion has already taken place, […]
By Leonardo Blair, Senior Reporter Wednesday, July 09, 2025 Michael Oakes is is the outreach minister for the Oak Hills Church in San Antonio, Texas. | Screenshot/KENS5 Megachurch Pastor Michael Oakes is counting his blessings after he and his entire family escaped flash flooding along the Guadalupe River in Texas last Friday, which has claimed […]
By Leah MarieAnn Klett, Assistant Editor Tuesday, June 17, 2025 Shane & Shane leads worship at the SBC Annual Meeting in Dallas, Texas. | Baptist Press Shane Barnard and Shane Everett have one mission when they step onto a stage to lead worship: to care for the pastors, leaders and laypeople in the room through […]
By Christian Daily InternationalTuesday, July 08, 2025 A newly acquired Boeing 757 sits outside the Samaritan’s Purse Airlift Response Center at the Piedmont Triad International Airport in Greensboro, North Carolina. | Courtesy of Samaritan’s Purse Christian aid agency Samaritan’s Purse, through its North American Ministries, and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association’s Rapid Response Team (BGEA-RRT) […]
By Leah MarieAnn Klett, Assistant Editor Monday, June 23, 2025 Ben Fuller | Courtesy of Ben Fuller Ben Fuller isn’t interested in pretending. In an industry where polished testimonies, a lack of transparency and the pressure to live an airbrushed life can be common, the 38-year-old rising Christian/country artist wants to live — both on […]
As a death row inmate in Iran’s notorious Evin Prison, arrested and sentenced to death because of the “crime” of converting to Christianity, I never imagined I would ever be able to visit Israel, much less make so many warm and close relationships with Israeli Jews. Dreams have always been vivid and significant in my […]
By Anugrah Kumar, Christian Post Contributor Monday, July 07, 2025 A view of Camp Mystic, the site of where initially over 20 girls went missing after flash flooding in Hunt, Texas, on July 5, 2025. That number went down to 10 by late afternoon Sunday. Rescuers continue searching for the girls missing from a riverside […]
By Katelyn WebbMonday, June 30, 2025 Michael Tait of Newsboys perform during filming of “Candace” on Sept. 13, 2021, in Nashville, Tennessee. | Getty Images/Jason Davis Amid the fallout surrounding former Newsboys frontman Michael Tait, artist Rhett Walker responded to “keyboard warriors” criticizing the CCM industry by noting that the genre includes “a lot of […]
By Leah MarieAnn Klett, Assistant Editor Tuesday, July 01, 2025 Courtesy of Sierra McClain Sierra McClain is used to playing characters with conviction. Whether as Nessa Parker on “Empire” or Grace Ryder on Fox’s “9-1-1: Lone Star,” the 31-year-old actress said she has always been drawn to roles that require emotional depth and strength of […]
By Ryan Foley, Christian Post Reporter Wednesday, June 25, 2025 US rapper Kanye West (C), attends the Givenchy Spring-Summer 2023 fashion show during the Paris Womenswear Fashion Week, in Paris, on October 2, 2022. | AFP via Getty Images/Julien de Rosa The National Collegiate Athletics Association has caused a stir on social media after it […]