Members of the Pepperdine University community will continue prayer vigils Thursday morning on the California campus of the Christian school after four female students were killed when a 22-year-old driver crashed his car into them along the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu on Tuesday night.

A congregation that is said to be the largest United Methodist Church body in Mississippi voted overwhelmingly on Sunday to leave the mainline Protestant denomination.

Bestselling author and leader of Denton Bible Church in Texas, Pastor Tommy Nelson, says he is ready to transition away from the helm of his megachurch and turn it over to a team of younger leaders after 50 years in ministry. The announcement comes a year after the church announced that it failed to prevent the abuse of multiple young girls by a former youth pastor.

An Episcopal Church bishop in Wyoming has been placed on administrative leave as he faces a potential disciplinary action based on allegations that have not been made public.

Britney Spears wrote in an upcoming memoir that she had an abortion years ago after discovering she was pregnant with fellow singer Justin Timberlake’s baby, with the pop icon remembering it as one of the most "agonizing" things she’s ever experienced.

Adam Dooley, the pastor of Englewood Baptist Church in Jackson, Tennessee, believes those protesting Israel’s right to defend itself are either "morally confused or intellectually dishonest." He urges Americans to ask themselves if the United States would have tolerated the "same nonsensical approach in the aftermath of 9/11."