As the toll of overdoses continue to rise, congregations provide recovery, medical care, and redemption. It was the prayer requests that caught the new minister’s attention. Not long after Lisa Bryant arrived at the Madam Russell United Methodist Church, a historic congregation named for one of the original pioneers in Saltville, Virginia, she began to…
The newly accredited school promotes a theological education that’s not at odds with culture. Much of Terry LeBlanc’s adult life has been driven by one question: Can you be fully Indigenous and fully a follower of Jesus? His answer has been a resounding yes. Over the past three decades, he and others have built a…
Resurrection South Austin is the latest to go, citing issues around race, women, sexual minorities, and abuse response. In the past year, two Anglican congregations in the US have left their more theologically conservative denomination for the mainline Episcopal Church. Formed in 2009, the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) is known for taking in…
Wary of West African war and Western sanctions, Christian minority in the jihadist-plagued Sahel region nervously prays for peace. The military coup in Niger has now entered its third week. Four days after the July 26 putsch, the 15-member Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) threatened military action if democratic rule was not restored…
Are we using this calamity to hide from our sins? Since the beginning of May, more than 180 people have lost their lives in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur. Most of these victims are Christians from the minority Kuki-Zo tribe and, in turn, thousands from these communities have fled from the violence for shelter…
Many evangelicals have stuck with the former president through his legal troubles, moral failings, and public indiscretions On the eve of former president Donald Trump’s indictment on charges that he attempted to overturn the presidential election of 2020, Franklin Graham, head of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan’s Purse, appeared on Greta Van Susteren’s…
How Florida’s Brenda Carter decided to spend 30 years of her life serving the Hakka people in Taiwan. Deep in the countryside of Miaoli County, Taiwan, Brenda Carter has lived among the Hakka people for more than 30 years. Part of the Chinese Han population, the Hakka trace their lineage back to northern China. Their…
The threat of gang violence around Port-au-Prince continues to disrupt ministry. Pastor Samson Doreliens ministers “right in the middle of the violence in Port-au-Prince,” the site of the July 27th kidnapping of an American nurse and her daughter who remain missing. The 600 active congregants of the Evangelical Baptist Mission of South Haiti (MEBSH) Church…
Jake Meador has a provocative proposal for reversing dechurching. But it may not be that simple. More than 1 in 10 Americans—around 40 million of us—stopped attending church in the last 25 years. New research using cell phone location data suggests weekly church attendance (defined as 36 weeks of the 47 studied) is at just…
Six months after disaster, the biblical Dorcas raised from the dead by Peter inspires Protestant generosity—just as she modeled for the early church. Exhausted and emotionally spent at the end of a full week surveying the damage from Turkey’s massive earthquake last February, Ali Kalkandelen needed hope. As chairman of his nation’s Association of Protestant…
