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37 Maryland churches suing UMC over property dispute suffer another court loss
An appeals court panel in Maryland has ruled against 37 churches that sued The United Methodist Church over claims that the rules for leaving the denomination were unfair.
Kachin Baptist Church used for military graduation
A Myanmar military-linked militia held a graduation ceremony inside a Kachin Baptist church, drawing condemnation from Christian advocates.
Christian author Heather Thompson Day says child who lodged criminal complaint ‘doesn’t know what she’s doing’
Note: This story contains details of child sexual abuse. Bestselling Christian author and former Christianity Today podcaster Heather Thompson Day tried to persuade a Texas judge that the child who accused her and her husband Seth of abuse was lying. “This is not true,” she said amid sobs in a Sept. 24 bond hearing in
Christian author Heather Thompson Day says child who lodged criminal complaint ‘doesn’t know what she’s doing’
Note: This story contains details of child sexual abuse. Bestselling Christian author and former Christianity Today podcaster Heather Thompson Day tried to persuade a Texas judge that the child who accused her and her husband Seth of abuse was lying. “This is not true,” she said amid sobs in a Sept. 24 bond hearing in
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: Does the Botched Killing of a Woman Stand the Biblical Test?
COMMENTARY By David W. Virtue DD | www.virtueonline.org | October 8, 2026 She lay strapped to the gurney, awake enough to ask whether her arm was supposed to feel that way. Then came the snoring, and it went on for more than an hour until the chamber microphone was cut. The lethal injection had failed…twice. Christa Pike did not die. Four months earlier, in May, Tennessee had tried to execute Tony Carruthers. His executioners spent more than an hour probing his arms, feet, neck and chest for a
Canada’s Anglo-Catholic parishes embody ‘appreciation for the mystical’
[Anglican Journal] Worship at St. Thomas’s Anglican Church, a historic Anglo-Catholic parish in downtown Toronto, Ontario, invariably provokes one of a few strong reactions from newcomers, according to the parish’s rector, the Rev. Nathan Humphrey.
Steven Wade to be nominated for NC Baptist president
Steven Wade, lead pastor of Faith Baptist Church in Youngsville and a professor of pastoral theology at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, will be nominated for president of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina during this year’s N.C. Baptist annual meeting. Chris Griggs, lead pastor of First Baptist Church of Welcome, plans [...]Read More
Celebrating Churches: Coggin Avenue hosts baptism of 17 HPU students
Coggin Avenue Baptist Church celebrated the baptisms of 17 Howard Payne University football players who committed their lives to Christ.
Archbishop of Canterbury’s statement on third anniversary of Oct. 7 attacks
[Episcopal News Service] Archbishop of Canterbury Sarah Mullally issued the following statement on Oct. 7, the third anniversary of the 2023 attacks. Three years on from the horrific Hamas-led terr
FDA delays abortion pill safety study results, retaining telehealth prescriptions
WASHINGTON (BP) — The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has postponed until perhaps March 2027 the release of a safety study on the abortion pill mifepristone, delaying any attempts to end telehealth prescriptions for the drug. The FDA announced the delay in an Oct. 7 court filing responding to a Louisiana lawsuit challenging the drug’s [...]Read More
NOBTS trustees approve new Leavell College degrees, receive updates
NEW ORLEANS (BP) — The board of trustees for New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary (NOBTS) and Leavell College approved a new degree pathway, observed the official opening of the seminary’s new Center for Worship Studies, welcomed new trustees and conducted other business during their fall meeting Oct. 6-7. Jamie Dew, president of NOBTS and Leavell [...]Read More
FIRST-PERSON: The gospel is for everyone
Throughout all of Scripture and in some key moments in Acts, we see glimpses of God’s plan for the nations, but Acts 10 will inaugurate the mission to the Gentiles on a large scale. Peter’s ministry continues, focusing on his interactions with a Gentile man named Cornelius. Most important, we discover God’s lavish grace reaching [...]Read More
Incoming Nevada Baptist leader tells Georgia Baptist staff, ‘We are your missionaries to the West’
ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Adam Mallette, incoming executive director/treasurer of the Nevada Baptist Convention, thanked Georgia Baptist Mission Board (GBMB) employees Wednesday for their partnership in gospel work in the West and challenged them to remain faithful to God’s Word and their calling. “We don’t do what we do without the work of Georgia Baptists,” Mallette [...]Read More
La vie chrétienne a des priorités spirituelles
par Reinder Bruinsma | 8 octobre 2026 | Il y a plusieurs années, un homme m’a abordé à l’issue d’une réunion pour me faire part d’une information qu’il jugeait d’une importance capitale, et que je devais absolument entendre. En parcourant les bibliothèques du monde entier et en consultant des sources tant anciennes que modernes, il
Sending Church Lab helps strengthen missionary support
The chapel at Council Road Baptist Church in Oklahoma City turned into a science lab on Oct. 5-6. Microscopes, beakers and test tubes weren’t in the room, but this Sending Church Lab drew nearly 40 people representing 12 Oklahoma Baptist churches committed to send and care for international missionaries well. The Sending Church Lab, facilitated [...]Read More
PRAY: 24-Year-Old Youth Pastor Dies Running Portland Marathon
A youth pastor died after rounding one of the miles of the Portland Marathon on Sunday.
Apollo moon mission scientist, Margaret Hamilton, dead at 90
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Zimbabwe hailstorm destroys churches, homes
United Methodists in Masvingo town are counting their losses after a severe hailstorm smashed church properties and members’ homes.
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