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.”
Running short on money and membership, a 75-year-old Florida congregation that dwindled to just 19 amid the pandemic, gathered for its final service a week ago.
DALLAS (BP) – Whether it’s from a video posted on social media or a microphone at the SBC Annual Meeting, you don’t have to listen to Bart Barber long before you know he cares about Southern Baptist polity. Barber, senior pastor of FBC Farmersville, Texas, is scheduled to be nominated…
For Pastor James Marini, life in pre-COVID California was pretty sweet, at least for him and his family. But after being called by God to leave his comfortable life behind to plant a new congregation, the Marinis put their lives in God's hands as they moved over 1,300 miles away to plant a Calvary Chapel in North Texas.
A recently retired bishop of The United Methodist Church has announced that he is leaving the mainline Protestant denomination for a conservative alternative that was launched on Sunday.
Months after announcing Vineyard Anaheim, the “mother church” of the Vineyard movement, would be disassociating from the charismatic denomination, Pastor Alan Scott revealed the church will now be called the Dwelling Place Anaheim.
The Church of England is giving more time to gathering information relating to abuse by the late John Smyth.
CAPE CORAL, Fla. (BP) – For more than 30 years Tom Ascol has been known as a leader with deep theological convictions through his work at Grace Baptist Church and Founders Ministries. While Ascol, 65, has never held an office as a trustee or board member of the Southern Baptist…
Bestselling author Gary Chapman and counselor and diversity trainer Clarence Shuler share how cross-cultural friendships can radically transform race relations in our country.
The outgoing head of the United Methodist Church Council of Bishops denounced the split of the mainline Protestant denomination over LGBT issues ahead of Sunday's launch of a breakaway denomination.
The Christian Institute has called it a "very sad development" after most presbyteries in the Church of Scotland came out in support of same-sex weddings in its church buildings.
