The Baptist World Alliance (BWA) will convene the 2024 BWA Annual Gathering in Lagos, Nigeria, from July 5-12, 2024. This annual event unites Baptists worldwide for a strategic time of prayer, fellowship, learning, and planning together.
Book Excerpt: ‘How The Book Of Mormon Came To Pass’ By Lars Nielsen
Anachronisms are people, objects, and ideas from one time period that appear nonsensically in writings attributed to a different time period; they are chronological inconsistencies that, at the very least, reveal that a work must have been written after a…
Kenyan Pastors Are Praying for Haiti. They’re Also Shaping the Police Mission to Save It.
Kenya’s leaders aren’t saying much publicly about the security force they plan to send to gang-embattled Haiti. But they’re talking a whole lot with God.
Arizona Abortion Providers Could Get Special Licenses To Practice In California
A bill introduced in the California legislature Wednesday would allow abortion providers in Arizona to quickly obtain temporary medical licenses to practice in the Golden State ― an effort Democrats say is necessary to keep up with an influx of patients from states that…
A Russian Orthodox priest who took part in services for Navalny is suspended by the patriarch
The patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Chuch has suspended a priest who participated in services for the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
Israeli settlers ‘expelled’ from Gaza in 2005 say it’s time to return
As her five children crowd around her, demanding attention, Chaya Ediger, a 35-year-old primary school teacher, makes a sweeping gesture indicating the comforts of her book-filled home in Yishi, a village between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. “I’m ready to leave…
A Great Evangelical Divorce? — Speaker Mike Johnson’s breakup with Marjorie Taylor Greene Could Be Bad News for Trump
When Speaker of the House Mike Johnson pushed through aid to Ukraine this week, it did more than green-light funds to support the Ukrainians. In recent weeks, he changed from hard-core opposition to supporting Ukraine to championing its cause. His actions were,…
Meet the sex educators challenging what we think we know about sex and Islam
Every Friday, Dr. Sadaf Lodhi releases a new episode of “The Muslim Sex Podcast,” in which she discusses everything from painful sex to how orgasm happens to the effects of purity culture on intimacy. In each hourlong show, Lodhi dispels…
Spain approves plan to compensate victims of Catholic Church sex abuse. Church will be asked to pay
Spain on Tuesday approved a plan aimed at making reparation and economic compensation for victims of sex abuse committed by people connected to the Catholic Church.
Biden To Florida Voters: Six-Week Abortion Ban Is Trump’s Fault
President Joe Biden swooped into Florida Tuesday, hoping to parlay the state’s new restrictive abortion law — as well as a ballot initiative that could undo it — into a campaign issue that could give him the state’s trove of electoral votes…
Evangelical Leaders Lobbied House Speaker For Israel And Ukraine Aid
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson heard from select evangelical leaders in a press call in advance of the chamber’s weekend passage of a $95 million foreign aid package.
Early Christian Scripture and ancient codices draw collectors’ eyes to Paris
Amid all the preparations to turn Paris into a venue for the Olympic Games that begin in less than 100 days, one small corner of the French capital is preparing for another modern form of competition based in antiquity: Christie’s auction of…