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While spending the day spearfishing with his family, school chaplain and youth pastor Luke Walford (40) suffered a shark attack that quickly took his life. Walford was an experienced fisherman who regularly spent time perfecting his hobby off the coast of Queensland, Australia.

Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday (Dec. 29) at age 100, was known most as the 39th president of the United States. But he also will be remembered as the world’s most famous Sunday school teacher.

On a recent episode of Dr. Jordan Peterson’s podcast, Dallas Jenkins told Peterson that his intent for creating “The Chosen” was to “remove the religiosity of how we often times see God.”

Readers reviewing the top news articles from ChurchLeaders for 2024 will notice a theme: Scandal has rocked the church this year. Nevertheless, there are bright spots in our Top 20 List, which includes articles that show how God's love triumphs over darkness.

A new app from Pastor Ron Carpenter lets users have “1-on-1 personalized interactions” with an AI version of himself any time of day or night. Carpenter is senior pastor of the multi-site Redemption Church in Greenville, South Carolina.

Thomas Campbell Bolling Von Goetz is accused of assaulting a parishioner with fruit outside of one church and pouring whiskey into the holy water at another.

On Saturday, Dec. 21, award-winning producer Mark Burnett was appointed by President-elect Donald Trump to serve as the special envoy to the United Kingdom for Trump’s upcoming administration.

A Christmas Eve candlelight service at Lakewood Church in Houston was interrupted by a bomb threat, which authorities later determined to be fake. More than 5,000 people were worshiping at Pastor Joel Osteen's megachurch Tuesday evening (Dec. 24) when a man threatened to “blow up the church.”