Around 500 participants from more than 80 countries participated in a week-long conference on how to best use theology to build up pastoral training and leadership development in the global Church.
Another school year is upon us. As we dream of crisp autumn days, football games and walking through a scattering of colorful fall leaves on sidewalks, The Christian Post’s reporters and contributors bring you, our loyal readers, inspiring stories from home and abroad.
In the editorial “Disagreement is not hatred. Censorship is.” you can read more about Twitter’s censorship of CP and its disregard for Americans’ freedom of speech. At the bottom of this page, you can learn more about how you can support quality journalism and continue to be salt and light in the world.
One person is reported dead and four others have been critically wounded by a shooter at a California church Sunday at around 1:26 p.m. Pacific time. The suspect is in custody, but the Orange County Sheriff's Department has yet to release his name.
Regular readers of The Christian Post are well aware of the moral failures at the highest levels of Evangelical leadership in the recent past. Formerly revered figures such as Ravi Zacharias, Bill Hybels and Mark Driscoll and earlier harbingers like Jim Bakker are the reminders that all is not well within the multifaceted movement that is American Evangelicalism.
Among the most-read news stories of 2021 were reports of the power wielded by big tech companies to silence Christians, actor Denzel Washington professing God’s calling on his life, and backlash against the words of a progressive congregation that claimed the Bible isn’t the Word of God.
In this year's list of top 10 news stories, The Christian Post highlights the unrelenting persecution religious minorities have endured, changes within the Southern Baptist Convention, the withdrawal from Afghanistan, COVID-19 vaccine mandates, and the debates swirling around public education.
There was no shortage of news in 2021, a year that saw a spike in COVID-19 infections and deaths, a new presidential administration and prominent ministries dealing with the fallout of scandals that have put their ministries in the spotlight of international media attention. The ranking of The Christian Post's top 10 news stories was determined by CP's editors based on what interested our readers and what we believe were the most significant events of the year.
Author Rebbeca Davis emphasizes in her "Untwisting Scripture" books that the Bible has often been misused, particularly when ministering to victims of many kinds of abuse. But God is faithful to show up and reveal Himself and the truth of his Word for those who seek Him.