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How a new generation is changing evangelical Christianity

Evangelical Christianity, as we have known it, is changing. While old guard evangelical leaders are vocally supporting Republican nominee Donald Trump for president, there is a groundswell of opposition from within evangelicals.

White House panel report says system, not personal decisions, drive poverty

A White House advisory panel report released Oct. 27 said that in order to fight poverty, the United States must acknowledge and address disparities and unequal treatment — economically, socially and politically — that face communities of color. The White House Advisory…

Culture warriors wave white flag, get down to business

What if Christians in America have lost the war against cultural changes they feel do not reflect their biblical standards? They might look to Christians in Canada who realized a decade ago that they lost the culture war there and…

Liberty University students want to be Christians — not Republicans

Evangelicals at the school are tired of politics — and the party that gave them Trump.

LifeWay stops selling Jen Hatmaker books over LGBT beliefs

One of evangelical women’s favorite authors loses her place in one of America’s largest Christian chains.

Former Baptist World Aid head working for American Baptists

The former director of Baptist World Aid has a new job with American Baptist Home Mission Societies. ABHMS Executive Director Jeffrey Haggray announced Oct. 26 the hiring of Rothangliani Chhangte as special assistant to the executive director for strategic priorities and…

Marching to the voting booth

The book of Ecclesiastes tells us there is nothing new under the sun. Well, I say Ecclesiastes was wrong. Recently, I heard about a notion that is not only new under our sun, but frankly, new under any star or…

Ministry teaches farmers how to raise better cows and chickens

Soontorn Inthayok is a day laborer and part-time guard, serving as the primary wage earner for his family in Northern Thailand. The 49-year-old provides for his older sister, who is mentally disabled, and for his son, who is attending technical…

NCC welcomes US abstention in UN Cuba vote

The head of the National Council of Churches applauded a symbolic non-vote on a perennial U.N. resolution as a step forward in normalizing relations between the United States and Cuba. The U.N. General Assembly has previously adopted 25 resolutions calling…

The meeting in the sanctuary and the meeting in the basement: Ministry to the ignored

Ministry in a local jail combined with an intensive educational program in addiction and recovery opened a minister’s eyes to the needs of an ignored population.

Christ’s burial place exposed for first time in centuries

Restorers working in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Israel uncover a stone slab venerated as the resting place of Jesus Christ.

Presidential debate prompts pastor to get personal about abortion

Comments about abortion in the final U.S. presidential debate prompted a well-known pastor and columnist to break her silence about her own painful experience with late-term abortion. Amy Butler, pastor of Riverside Church in New York City and contributing columnist…

An American experiment: 250 years of trying

10 reasons America is not a ‘Christian nation’

American Dominion traces deep roots of Seven Mountain Mandate

Lindsey Graham and the history of ‘widow’s succession’