The new year brings new regulations—but thankfully not the worship and seminary bans evangelicals initially feared.
Since October, Bulgarian evangelicals have protested proposed legislation that would hinder preaching, evangelizing, funding, and training by non-Orthodox minority faiths...
Ministries in Sulawesi, Indonesia, engage kids in a crucial first step in trauma healing: play.
In a church in the bayside city of Palu, Indonesia, volunteers smile wide as they lead dozens of children in sing-alongs with hand motions. They pass around coloring pages with packs of crayons and...
A conversation on reading with an avid reader, “Book Girl” Sarah Clarkson.
Every reader has a teetering “TBR” (to be read) pile that either entices or intimidates, depending on the moment. Between the vast array of reading choices and the army of “bookstagrammers” and...
Spiritual gifts have little to do with innate personal strengths and far more to do with a yielded weakness.
Terry and Janice were busy penciling in three sheets of computer dots in the spiritual gifts inventory they’ve been given by their local church. Nervously concentrating, Terry and...
With around 500 out of 3,700 Christian applications approved since 2016 law, is government’s progress on legalizing worship sites slow or steady?
Egyptian Christians now have an additional 168 legal church buildings.
On November 30, a cabinet committee approved the requests of Egypt’s...
Raids on major congregations led by pastors Wang Yi and the late Samuel Lamb represent “the most horrendous evil of Chinese society ... hindering [non-Christians] from coming to Jesus.”
A week after a prominent pastor in China released his viral letter on faithful disobedience amid a...
We have a long way to go, but many heroes are among us.
There is much to lament in the church today. While God’s commands remain steadfast and true, we have looked away long enough to have been conformed to the world. This ought to be anathema.
In moments of honesty, we must confess we...
Finding common ground so that the Virgin Mary becomes less of a battleground.
Many pastors feel nervous as the third Sunday in Advent, “Mary Sunday,” rolls around. What congregant will turn out to be suspicious of any unusual respect shown for her? What visiting Catholic will be...
This season demands a clear view of darkness. Here’s how scholars reckon with it.
During Advent, we hear passages of Scripture that are infused with the language of darkness, tribulation, and apocalypse. Matthew, Mark, and Luke each have one fully apocalyptic chapter. In Mark 13, Jesus says,...
Investigation by Fort Worth Star-Telegram finds 400 allegations against 168 leaders spanning almost 200 churches and institutions.
Hundreds of women and men have accused leaders of independent fundamental Baptist churches of sexual misconduct in a major investigative report published last...
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