Gunman kills at least 8, including children, at Texas mall

A lone gunman opened fire at a bustling mall outside Dallas, Texas, killing at least eight people, including children, and injuring seven others. The shooter was killed by an on-duty police officer who happened to be at the mall on an unrelated call.

Joshua Butler, an Evangelical Christian pastor and author, resigned from the leadership of his Arizona megachurch on Wednesday following backlash over his book, "Beautiful Union," in which he asserted that "sex is an icon of Christ and the church."

The International Mission Board has announced that a funeral service commemorating the life of Rachel Kerr James will take place this week. As a devoted missionary nurse, she was among the pioneering Southern Baptists to serve in war-torn Vietnam and she established medical clinics while raising four children and supporting her husband in founding churches.

Why do we know so little about the deaths of arguably the two greatest apostles in the Bible?

Controversy has erupted in the European Parliament over a photography exhibition by Swedish artist Elisabeth Ohlson that includes a depiction of Jesus accompanied by homosexual men dressed in leather attire associated with BDSM fetishism. Few MEPs have spoken out against the artwork, with the exception of politicians from Italy and Poland.

Events that occurred this week in Christian history include the birth of the co-founder of the YMCA, Massachusetts banning Christmas, and the death of a prominent Moravian leader.

Relentless Church in South Carolina has suffered a ransomware attack, and its head pastor, John Gray, cautioned the culprits, stating, "You’re not attacking us, you’re attacking the God that we serve."

King Charles III today became the 40th reigning monarch to be crowned at Westminster Abbey in a service interspersed with hymns, Bible readings and a liturgy underpinned by Christ's call to serve.