The Christian Post
Weekend Headlines
Sunday, 01/15/2023

Famed outdoorsman Bear Grylls shares why he believes Jesus wouldn't recognize much of what the Western church promotes and how faith helps him live an empowered and God-glorifying life.

Clint Clifton, a church planter with the North American Mission Board, tragically died in a plane crash in Georgia on Thursday, sparking an outpouring of grief from the church planting community.

While religious identity among Americans remained largely stable throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, it accelerated existing trends in declining church attendance particularly among the young, a new report from the Survey Center on American Life shows.

A ministry of a Kentucky church that was founded in the 1990s with the intention of building handicap accessible ramps has just constructed its 1,000th ramp.

Memorable events in Christian history that occurred this week include a missionary to China writing a farewell letter, an influential American Baptist minister founding a church, and the martyrdom of Saint Henry.

The U.S. Supreme Court late Friday admitted the civil rights lawsuit of an evangelical Christian postal worker who resigned from the U.S. Postal Service after it refused to allow him to observe the Sunday Sabbath.

Authorities in South Carolina have warned about a fraudulent scheme in which scammers targeted members of an unnamed congregation to buy gift cards.

Today it’s Lindell or Brownback; tomorrow, it is you and me. Today it’s conservatives, tomorrow, it’s moderates and liberals. Today it’s Christians, tomorrow, it’s anybody who disagrees with the regime. You get the picture; this has to stop.
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