Southern Baptists first arrived in Nigeria when it existed as independent kingdoms. Now, 175 years later, Southern Baptists continue to serve in the West African country home to diverse ethnic groups.
This issue of A Public Witness takes you inside the recent CBF annual gathering to consider how Christians can speak truthfully about the past and speak truth to power today.
COPPELL, Texas – About a year ago under the direction of lead pastor Chris Meads, the staff and elders of GracePoint Church took an inventory of the state of the church and its standing in the community.
With a mix of humor, biblical firmness and spiritual urgency, Chris Swanson, director of crusades and development for Latin America at the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, lit up the auditorium
In a perfect world, where legal systems hold political power to account and protect minorities against human rights abuses we might expect an end to persecution. But we do not live in a perfect world. People with power continue to act with impunity against those who think and live differently to them. Christians have a way to cope with this reality and a real and living hope for a future free of persecution.
Camp IdRaHaJe on Wednesday reached an agreement with the state of Colorado in a lawsuit over a new state transgender policy. The Colorado Department of Early Childhood, or CDEC, in 2024 amended its re...
Speaking before an Evangelical political conference, President Donald Trump s spiritual advisor Paula White-Cain, a Florida televangelist who helps lead the White House Faith Office, claimed the
John Piper recently urged Christians, especially teens, not to ask how close they can get to sin like mild drunkenness but instead to pursue full clarity of mind and the fullness of the Holy Spirit
Evangelical Christians in Switzerland are defying the nationwide decline in religious belief and practice, standing out for their commitment to regular worship, prayer and spiritual engagement,
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After 2,000 years of retelling, the Jesus story has too often lost its shocking and revolutionary power. Bear Grylls’ book tells the story in the imagined words of 5 Bible characters, re-capturing the powerful drama of the human and the divine encounters. Grylls’ fame, the beautiful presentation, the imaginative first-person narrative, the use of Aramaic and Hebrew names, and the vivid storytelling all serve to remind us that these were real people, in real places, at a real moment in history.
The Presbyterian Church in America has voted to form a committee to study the nature and influence of Christian nationalism within the theologically conservative denomination
