More than two years after former teaching pastor Bruxy Cavey resigned from one of Canada’s largest megachurches amid allegations of sexual misconduct, The Meeting House has temporarily paused operations because no insurance company wants to cover its abuse liability or employment practices liability insurance.
Following a United Nations rapporteur's report on the atrocities that accompany prostitution, evangelical groups call on nation states to stop normalizing sex services and instead officially recognise prostitution and its related variations as systematically linked to violence and the exploitation of women and girls. "Prostitution is a system of exploitation and an aggregated form of male violence against women and girls that intersects with other forms of structural discrimination."
Berlin First Baptist Church (BFBC) in Berlin, Maryland held its first Vacation Bible School (VBS) for children with disabilities Jun 17-20, 2024. The program ran in the morning while a traditional, neurotypical VBS was hosted in the evenings of those same days. Children's Director Shannon Diehl has a heart for children with developmental disabilities and had been thinking about doing a VBS for children with disabilities for many years. Yet she did not know if she could bring this idea to life.
Every school classroom in Oklahoma will teach about the Bible under a new directive by the State’s Superintendent, who pledges that he is ready to fight any legal challenges from opponents against his plan. Walters outlined his reasoning in a video recorded during a State Board of Education meeting, published on X. He said his staff had been looking at the statute and academic standards in Oklahoma, and came to a “crystal clear” conclusion about the importance of the Bible.
The recent Southern Baptist Convention held in Indianapolis, IN adopted a resolution addressing the dignity of the human embryo and the ethical implications of widely used reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilization (IVF). The resolution, directed primarily at pastors, ministry leaders, and couples, urges careful deliberation before engaging in reproductive technologies, a topic that has long been debated within the Southern Baptist community and the broader pro-life movement.
With any quick Google search, Canadians of any age can access sexually explicit material. Simple, often innocent search terms can bring up websites with sexually explicit content, much of it violent and dehumanizing. It is extremely easy to access in Canada, and we are seeing the devastating consequences of this on our population, especially children and youth.
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump faced off for the first presidential debate leading up to the 2024 presidential election Thursday. The debate, moderated by CNN’s Dana Bash and Jake Tapper, took place in Atlanta, Georgia.
Most churchgoers believe that the wider public’s perceptions of Christians in the U.S is declining, according to a major study collecting the views of more than 1,000 American Protestant believers. Lifeway Research released results from the study conducted last September yesterday (June 25), with figures showing that 69 percent of people attending church believe that public perspectives of believers in the U.S. are getting worse.
An American pediatrician group is calling on U.S. medical institutions to follow some of their European counter parts in considering science rather than ideology in the care for transgender children. In recent months, an increasing number of medical professionals have come forward lamenting how an important health care and mental health issue has been politicized and voices pointing to scientific facts or calling for more rigorous research have been effectively silenced.
Churches should partner up with Christian modeling organizations to promote positive body images and diversity within the body of Christ. That is the view of Angela ‘Stikks’ Adams, founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of the Christian Models Association, based in Sacramento, California.
The father of a brave missionary killed with his devoted wife during an armed gang raid in Haiti, Caribbean, has vowed that work for the gospel of Jesus Christ will carry on after the tragedy.
Even before the WEA officially announced its next General Assembly in Seoul, Korea from October 27-31, 2025, news of the plans has been met with criticisms by Korean church groups who called for the preparations to be put on hold until their concerns about certain WEA leaders and the organization’s theological views are addressed. While the two first statements focused primarily on questions around pluralism and syncretism due to WEA’s engagement with Catholics, ecumenical and Muslim groups, the
