Christian News

Amid the recent adulation for U.S. tennis superstar Serena Williams comes pushback from 80-year-old Australian pastor Margaret Court. Before entering the ministry, Court was a tennis champion who won 24 Grand Slam singles titles—one more than Williams.

A century ago, P.E. Burroughs wrote on the importance of vestibules, the small gathering areas common in many churches at the time. While much has changed since then, gathering places are still essential.

Tra Xiong, executive director of the Hmong Baptist National Association (HBNA), sees a blessing and a challenge in spreading the Gospel in Thailand.

Since the passage of ACA, health care sharing ministries sprang up as more affordable options. Now Rep. Jared Huffman is going after what he calls deceptive marketing and dangerous practices of such ministries.

Shane Pruitt, national Next Gen director for the North American Mission Board (NAMB), says churches now more than ever have the opportunity to step into the brokenness of Generation Z with the hope of the Gospel. 

A group of New York clergy took more than a million dollars from a real estate developer who sought to turn distressed Black churches into lucrative properties.

A service at a private Christian school in Fayetteville, North Carolina, resulted in 100 spontaneous baptisms. Now parents are speaking out with their concerns.

A Christian teacher in Ireland has been put in prison for refusing to obey a court injunction preventing him from appearing at his secondary school pending the conclusion of a disciplinary process. Enoch Burke was put on paid leave over his refusal to use a transgender student’s preferred pronouns.