Here are three events that happened this week in Christian history. They include the founding of the Wesleyan Church, the birth of a prominent early Pentecostal movement leader, and the conversion of a Medieval English king.
Hundreds of clergy, staff and congregants of the Church of Sweden, Europe’s largest Lutheran denomination, have declared in an open letter that it is now a trans-inclusive institution.
A 25-year-old North Carolina pastor, whose ministry sought to end violence, was shot to death outside his home this week, days after he was ordained and proposed to his girlfriend.
Eilat Mazar, one of Jerusalem’s foremost archaeologists who discovered King David’s palace in the City of David and once said, “I work with the Bible in one hand and the tools of excavation in the other,” has died at age of 64.
A Canadian congregation has been charged with violating lockdown orders for holding multiple outdoor worship services with more than 10 people in attendance after its church building was shut down by the government.
As more and more Christian leaders publicly leave the faith, a pastor has weighed in on the “deconstruction” movement and shared how the Church can best love those struggling with doubt.
In his wisdom, my grandfather helped provide a nugget of wisdom I have never forgotten: "Truth is the daughter of time." In having lived a long life, he learned that time allows falsehood to fall and the truth to emerge.
