The Christian population in Israel is growing slightly, according to a report issued at the end of 2022. The report, released by the Central Bureau of Statistics. found that Israel’s Christian community grew by ...
Read More »Fox Sports’ Chris Broussard on hoops, faith and reaching young men
Chris Broussard is dressed in an elegant suit. He sports a friendly smile and looks and acts exactly like the man many love to watch on television. The 53-year-old Broussard, a basketball ...
Read More »Court dismisses LGBT lawsuit against Christian colleges over
A federal judge recently dismissed an LGBT case that could have forced a coalition of Christian colleges to abandon their biblical beliefs on sexual orientation and gender identity. The high-profile lawsuit was ...
Read More »Director of “Jesus Revolution” expects number, quality of faith-based movies to grow
Hollywood is beginning to realize that there is a large market for high-quality faith-based films, a successful director said. “Most of the people in the flyover states believe in God, and they ...
Read More »Local Christian business leader Harold Finch dies at age 89
Dr. Harold Finch, who had a significant impact in building God’s kingdom locally and around the world, died on January 8. Finch was born on March 18, 1933 in Kansas City, Kan., ...
Read More »Tamika Sellars to speak at C5Alive POWER Luncheon in Topeka
The January C5Alive POWER Luncheon will be held January 12, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at The Peak, 1930 SW Gage Blvd. The featured speaker will be Tamika Sellars, who will speak ...
Read More »Region’s largest Christian college fair is March 4 in Kansas City
Christian colleges from across the nation will visit Kansas City March 4 for the largest Christian College Expo in the midwest. The 25th annual Christian College Expo will feature up to 60 ...
Read More »University of Idaho must pay Christian students over censored speech
Christian students and a faculty member have settled a lawsuit against the University of Idaho that limited their freedom of religious speech. The lawsuit, filed by the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) attorneys in April, ...
Read More »Senate rejects religious protections as it passes Marriage Act
The U.S. Senate has rejected amendments to protect religious freedom as it approved the controversial Respect for Marriage Act. Twelve Republicans, including several who are retiring like Missouri’s Roy Blunt, joined 49 ...
Read More »Summit Christian Academy soccer team finishes second in Missouri Class 1 playoffs
Summit Christian Academy has just completed its best season ever in boys soccer. The Lee’s Summit school was the runner-up in the Missouri Class 1 playoffs. St. Francis Borgia beat the Eagles ...
Read More »What Christianity Today gets wrong about the Respect for Marriage Act
In a Christianity Today op-ed, Carl H. Esbeck, Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Missouri, offers a positive assessment of the Respect for Marriage Act (RMA). He writes, “All in ...
Read More »“Jesus Revolution” will be in theaters in February with story of revival and hope
The powerful story of the youth revival of the 1960s and 1970s will be told in the new movie “Jesus Revolution,” which will be in theaters in February. The movie tells the ...
Read More »Christian leaders respond to vice president’s latest comments about abortion and faith
Christian leaders are taking issue with Vice President Kamala Harris’s recent comments that Americans do not have to “abandon their faith” to support abortion rights. “I say this, one does not have ...
Read More »Spencer Lindsay to speak at C5Alive POWER Luncheon
The monthly C5Alive POWER Luncheon will be held October 13, 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at The Peak, 1930 SW Gage. The featured speaker will be Spencer Lindsay, CEO & Founder at ...
Read More »Hurricane Ian near CAT 5 as aid organizations prepare to move in
Floridians along the Gulf Coast are fleeing in the face of a Hurricane Ian but Christian aid agencies like Samaritan’s Purse, are preparig to move in. The storm, already a CAT 4, ...
Read More »Don Hinkle, longtime editor of Missouri’s Baptist newspaper, dies at age 68
Don Hinkle, founding editor of The Pathway, the Missouri Baptist Convention’s newspaper, died last week at age 68. “Don was one of the smartest journalists in the industry today and brought a ...
Read More »Christian crowdfunding group GiveSendGo grows by 500%
The Christian fundraising platform GiveSendGo.com increased its payment processing volume 500 percent in the last year and is now being used in 86 countries. Website traffic increased one thousand percent between June ...
Read More »One of Wahlberg brothers found his faith while locked in prison
While Mark and Donnie Wahlberg achieved great success in music and film, their brother Jim took a darker path that led to prison. “I lived a rough-and-tumble life,” he said. “I was ...
Read More »‘Lifemark’ is boring and unrealistic, even for Christian film standards
Kirk Cameron‘s adoption movie “Lifemark” has been extended for an extra week after originally being scheduled to close in theaters Sept. 15. The move comes after it was the #4 movie in ...
Read More »From shoeboxes to war zones: how Samaritan’s Purse became a $1 billion humanitarian aid powerhouse
Each week, in a hulking warehouse in the small mountain town of N. Wilkesboro, N.C., Samaritan’s Purse employees load semi trailers full of supplies for the people of Ukraine: medicines, food, tarps, ...
Read More »Local pastor’s podcast series for pastors and leaders now available
A new podcast from Randy Frazee, lead pastor at Westside Family Church in Kansas City, is available from HarperChristian Resources. The Bible Roots Podcast is for pastors and church leaders who want to ...
Read More »‘Knocking down’ genre walls, Christian music reaches new audiences
You don’t have to be a fan of contemporary Christian artists to have heard Christian music in recent years. Thanks to a wave of collaborations between CCM artists and those of other ...
Read More »Area Christian schools among those awarded $3.8 Million in grants nationwide
As families continue to pull their children from public schools, numerous Christian schools are beginning the year with surprise funding. The Herzog Foundation is issuing the grants, totaling $3,813,800, to propel the ...
Read More »Why do Christians persevere? Unspeakable joy
When this person found Christ, that meant finding joy. My side-job as a faith-and-values columnist requires me to read more about religion than any sane person ought to. I pore through national ...
Read More »Spiritual perspectives of Olivia Newton-John emerge after death
Millions of fans around the world are mourning the death of singer Olivia Newton-John earlier this week. She was, perhaps, one of the most decent people in the entertainment industry. In a ...
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