A decade after a small gathering in 2016 first sought to name and address the distinct ways religious persecution affects women, the Marcham+10 conference began on Friday (April 17), highlighting both progress and persistent challenges in confronting what is now widely termed “gender-specific religious persecution.”
Megachurch pastor Michael Todd warned his congregation that, all too often, Christians cuff themselves to comfortable idols and in doing so, miss out on wonderful opportunities in life.
Pastor and bestselling author Francis Chan has criticized the popular pro-choice slogan “my body, my choice,” declaring at a Christian festival that “God says nothing is yours.”
In October of 2020, author Jemar Tisby spoke at Grove City College chapel about his book The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church's
How does a church handle a crisis? What is God up to in the middle of a minister transition? How can a church find healing after traumatic events? For 30-plus years, Don Hebbard, aka “Dr. Don,” has helped churches navigate these questions and more. A church consultant with the Siburt Institute for Church Ministry at […]
ABILENE, Texas — Lynn Anderson, beloved minister, mentor to three generations of ministers around the world and founder of HOPE Network Ministries, died May 12 at age 85. Memorial services are planned for 4 p.m. May 31 at Oak Hills Church in San Antonio. Anderson was born Sept. 22, 1936, in Kincaid, Saskatchewan, Canada. After […]
Data suggests that more than six out of 10 pastors in the United States have a predominantly syncretistic worldview.
Ecclesiastes, one of the great wisdom books in the Old Testament, contains a familiar passage ascribing times for everything and seasons for every activity under the heavens.
WRIGHTSVILLE, Ga. – The pastor of a Georgia church that lost a historic building to fire was back in the pulpit on Sunday (May 15), sharing a message of hope with his congregation.
In this issue of A Public Witness, we reconsider Harry Emerson Fosdick’s famous sermon and ask some of American Christianity’s leading voices and experts, “Did the fundamentalists win?”
A gunman motivated by political hatred against Taiwan chained shut the doors of a California church and hid firebombs inside before shooting at a gathering of mostly elderly Taiwanese parishioners, killing a man who tackled him and possibly saved dozens of lives, authorities said Monday.
