View Original PostSource:  Christian Post (Photo: Facebook/United Methodist General Conference)Delegates pray before a plenary session at the United Methodist Church’s 2016 General Conference in Portland, Oregon. A group of United Methodist Church clergy and laity have launched a movement meant to stress unity for a mainline denomination divided by the debate over LGBT issues. The […] Read more

View Original PostSource:  Christian Post (Photo: Facebook/Jamal Bryant)Pastor Jamal Bryant of Empowerment Temple in Baltimore, Maryland. The call for Pastor Jamal Bryant’s resignation proved to be his heaviest burden when the leader of the Empowerment Temple AME church in Baltimore, Maryland, was accused of stalking a Bronx, New York mother. On Thursday, the case that […] Read more

View Original PostSource:  Christian Post (Photo: Family Photo)David Platt, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board, his wife heather and their four children in a family photo from December 2015. Trustees of the Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board have announced that the board’s president, David Platt, has been approved to test a new […] Read more

View Original PostSource:  Christian Post (Photo: The Christian Post)Pastor Joel Osteen leads his Lakewood Church congregation in prayer in Houston, Texas, on Sept. 22, 2013. Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church, one of the largest nondenominational churches in America, has offered the use of its church building to a Conservative Jewish congregation whose synagogue was severely damaged […] Read more

View Original PostSource:  Christian Post (Photo: Twitter/R. E. Lee Church)Robert E. Lee Memorial Church of Lexington, Virginia. The church leadership voted 7-5 to change the name to Grace Episcopal Church on September 18, 2017. Leaders of a Virginia church named after Confederate General Robert E. Lee have voted to change its name, following a lengthy […] Read more

View Original PostSource:  Christian Post (Photo: Facebook/Calvary Houston)Calvary Houston, a nondenominational megachurch located in Friendswood, Texas. A Texas megachurch said it is “deeply saddened” by allegations from a former volunteer who said she was dismissed because she is a Jewish lesbian. Calvary Houston garnered headlines after a woman named Carmen Hix claimed the church refused […] Read more

View Original PostSource:  Christian Post (Photo: REUTERS/Jason Reed)People attend a rally for gay marriage in Sydney, Australia, September 10, 2017. A pastor at an evangelical church in Brisbane, Australia, has said the church has received serious threats online, including one vowing to burn it down, after it posted a billboard defending the definition of marriage […] Read more

View Original PostSource:  Christian Post (Photo: Jimmy Dorrell)Charles Benson, associate pastor at Church Under the Bridge of Waco, Texas, reads from the Bible as part of their 25th anniversary worship celebration, held on Sunday, September 17, 2017. A nondenominational church founded in 1992 that meets under a highway bridge in Texas so as to reach […] Read more

View Original PostSource:  Christian Post (Screenshot: Facebook)The late Pastor JoeNell Summerfield of Word of God Fellowship Church and Academy in Raleigh, North Carolina. Pastor JoeNell Summerfield’s body lay in a metallic grey coffin just underneath the podium at Word of God Fellowship Church and Academy in Raleigh, North Carolina, as her children prepared to say […] Read more

View Original PostSource:  Christian Post (Photo: Facebook)Ravi Zacharias (L) founder and president of Ravi Zacharias International Ministries and Nabeel Qureshi (R). Ravi Zacharias remembers the day he realized something was wrong with his recently departed protégé, Christian apologist Nabeel Qureshi. “I tear up as I think of the meal we had a little over a […] Read more