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Judah and Chelsea Smith’s Churchome, a Washington state megachurch, is at the center of a class-action lawsuit filed by current and former employees over the church’s alleged required tithing policy. According to ChurchLeaders.com, the lawsuit alleges that the church and its leaders, including CEO David Kroll and the Smiths, violated two state laws when it […]
Unsplash/Kasper Rasmussen What are deliverance, exorcism and demonic possession? What does it mean to find true spiritual freedom? With the topic of “deliverance” on many people’s hearts and minds these days and with the church continuing to debate the role of evil in humans’ lives, many questions persist about the Bible’s handling of spiritual warfare. […]
ABUJA, Nigeria, March 29, 2023 (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen killed a pastor on Thursday (March 23) in Kaduna state, Nigeria two weeks after terrorists killed a Baptist pastor’s son in the same state, sources said. The Rev. Musa Mairimi of the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) in Buda 2 village, near Kasuwan Magani […]
Hillsong founding Pastor Brian Houston | Screenshot: NBC/”Today” show Less than a month before he resigned as global senior pastor in March 2022 in the wake of revelations that two women had made complaints of misconduct against him in the last 10 years, Hillsong Church founder Brian Houston was charged with driving under the influence of […]
Retired professional wrestler “Superstar” Billy Graham (real name Eldridge Wayne Coleman) photographed at a hospital, as seen in a Facebook post from Tuesday, March 28, 2023. | Screengrab: Facebook/Billy Graham A devout Christian professional wrestler who adopted a stage name in homage to the famous evangelist the Rev. Billy Graham has been hospitalized and is […]
Students sit in a high school classroom. | Reuters/Stephane Mahe The Unitarian Universalist Association says that a sex education assignment at an Oregon high school asking students about their sexual fantasies is not part of a comprehensive curriculum it helped develop in conjunction with the United Church of Christ. Earlier this month, Kirk Miller, a […]
People participate in a Jewish solidarity march on January 5, 2020, in New York City. The march was held in response to a recent rise in anti-Semitic crimes in the greater New York metropolitan area. | Jeenah Moon/Getty Images A leading Jewish advocacy group documented a dramatic increase in anti-Semitic incidents in 2022, recording a […]
Pastor Greg Locke. | Screenshot/Facebook/Pastor Greg Locke Tennessee Pastor Greg Locke plans to fight litigation against his church over allegations that it violates local ordinances regarding planned building expansion, saying the legal action is based on “faulty findings, misrepresentation, and just plain speculation.” Tom Brashear, director of Wilson County Development Services, filed a lawsuit against […]
Getty Images A pastor seeking to open an all-boys school for black youth said advancing the “Kingdom’s culture” through education is a solution to the present state of public education that results in a cycle of poverty in black communities. During a panel discussion at the 2023 Black Conservative Summit in Chicago, Illinois, last Friday, […]
Wikimedia Commons/Rantemario The principal of a Florida charter school says she was forced to resign after some parents complained about a sixth-grade lesson on Renaissance art that featured Michelangelo’s “David” sculpture, which at least one parent says exposed students to pornographic material. However, the school’s board chair contends that the board had issues with the […]