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One of the first signs of the holiday season is when networks begin airing Christmas movies. Great American Media, which is committed to productions about faith and family, already has started broadcasting ...

Many individual Christians and churches are among the hundreds of thousands of Americans affected by recent devastating storms, including hurricanes. Pastor Jesse Bradley of Auburn, Wash., offered them a message of hope. ...

More than 100 million people of faith, including 32 million churchgoing Christians, are unlikely to vote in the November election, according to new research from the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian ...

Practicing Christians flourish more than people who identify as non-religious, the State of the Bible USA 2024 report from the American Bible Society found. The Human Flourishing Index, created by Harvard University, ...

After his dramatic conversion, actor Russell Brand is learning that other Christians can be critical at times. Last month, he posted a photo on social media of him and a friend performing ...

Former professional football player Benjamin Watson will be the keynote speaker at the Vitae Foundation’s annual Kansas City pro-life dinner. Missourians soon will be voting on Proposition 3, which would enshrine the ...

Jarod Hill is charged with first-degree assault and armed criminal action after stabbing a member of Kansas City First Church of the Nazarene last Sunday morning. The homeless man had been camping ...

Missouri Baptist Disaster Relief members have been helping with hurricane recovery near Augusta, Ga., since late September. “I would describe it as one big debris field,” Toby Tucker, who led the first ...

The famous Big Boy Steam Engine will be making a Topeka stop as part of its Heartland of America tour. The steam engine will stop in Topeka from 12:15-12:45 p.m. Oct. 17 ...

As Americans celebrated Columbus Day this week, a new documentary presented DNA evidence that the famous explorer was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe, Fox News reported. “Columbus DNA: The True Origin,” ...

Chiefs’ kicker Harrison Butker has launched a political action committee, UPRIGHT PAC, to encourage Christians to vote for candidates and issues that support their beliefs. “Athletes are citizens like the rest of us, ...

Texans on Mission do just what their name says – respond to a disaster or other crises, wherever and whenever they are needed. Members provided chainsaw and flood recovery crews for Louisiana, ...

The former pastor of Heritage Baptist Church in Rogersville, Mo., has been allowed to post bond after spending two years in jail for the alleged murder of his wife’s lover. Matthew Dedmon, ...

The Barna Group and Gloo have released the first installment of research from its State of the Church initiative. The release, titled “What Christians Really Believe,” explores key trends that influence how ...

Hurricane relief efforts by Samaritan’s Purse represent America at its finest, author and TV host Dr. Phil McGraw said. “All these orange shirts you see around and behind me are Samaritan’s Purse,” ...

Although most evangelical Christians believe that sharing the gospel is their duty, many don’t feel prepared to share their faith, a new survey from the Institute of Faith and Culture and Lifeway ...

Jews around the world will celebrate Yom Kippur from sundown on Friday through sundown on Saturday.  The name Yom Kippur translates from Hebrew to English as the Day of Atonement. Jewish people ...

Luke Combs, Eric Church, Billy Strings and other leading country music stars will perform a benefit concert in Charlotte later this month to help victims of Hurricane Helene. “This concert took so ...

CeCe Winans was the big winner at the recent Dove Awards in Nashville, taking home awards for Artist of the Year, Gospel Music Album of the Year and Inspirational Recorded Song of ...

More than six in 10 American Jews report feeling less safe and experiencing antisemitism in the year since the October 7 terrorist attack in Israel, a new poll from the Combat Antisemitism ...

Rick Warren, the founding pastor of Saddleback Church in Southern California, asked for prayers on Sunday as a brushfire threatened church property. “Please pray: 2 acres of Saddleback Church have already been ...

Amid the devastation of Hurricane Helene, stories of individual courage and determination are emerging. Marty Thomas, for example, used his surfboard to rescue about a dozen people and their pets near Indian ...

Professional basketball player A.J. Griffin of the Atlanta Hawks is walking away from a lucrative career to go into full-time ministry. “I gave up basketball to follow Jesus,” he said. “And I ...

The Global Church Network has set a goal of establishing 800 leadership training hubs worldwide as part of its mission of fulfilling the Great Commission by 2030. With the opening of hubs ...

I’ve been blessed to know Bishop John Birmingham for over twenty years. His tireless work in Kansas City’s urban core (which we have written about) has been an inspiration to generations of ...