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Named for the popular author and retired pastor, the new center hopes to help churches deal with a ‘post-Christendom’ America.

Lecrae described “Church Clothes” as an opportunity to say difficult things, adding that the series was “about making music that is raw and uncut and from the heart and transparent.”

“Soul Surfer” Bethany Hamilton has announced that she will not compete in or support the World Surf League so long as the organization allows trans women to compete in women’s surfing.

A recent exegetical exam for candidates seeking ordination in the Presbyterian Church (USA) contained a Bible passage that some people are calling a “trauma trigger.” Test-takers were asked to analyze Judges 19, a chapter in which the Levite’s concubine is gang-raped, murdered, and dismembered.

St. Louis pastor Mike Coleman said that he is praying for the 13-year-old who stole his minivan at gunpoint and hopes the boy's family will visit his church.

A Muslim in Karachi, Pakistan on Wednesday (Feb. 1) threw acid on a 19-year-old Christian woman for refusing his pressure to enter into relationship and convert to Islam, sources said.

The general secretary said she wanted to convey that the “worldwide Lutheran communion is really grateful for ELCA’s continuous support and for the fact that ELCA hasn’t forgotten its sisters and brothers worldwide.”

In recent years, an influx of transplants have made Pennsylvania’s "Bible Belt" less religiously observant and more politically diverse.