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Amid the continued declines, Southern Baptists are celebrating back-to-back years of growth in worship attendance and baptism.Despite years of record-setting declines shrinking the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) to its lowest membership in nearly half a century, Southern Baptists have begun to see some signs of life within their 46,906 churches.Worship attendance, small group attendance, and baptisms were up last year in the SBC’s annual statistical report, released Tuesday, while membe

NEWS PROVIDED BYRandall Terry for PresidentMay 7, 2024SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, May 7, 2024 /Christian Newswire/ -- The Constitution Party, America's distinguished third party, proudly announced the nomination of Randall Terry for President and Pastor Stephan Broden for Vice-President at their nomination convention held in Salt Lake City.Terry/Broden emerged victorious in a competitive field of 8 candidates, securing an impressive 54% of the vote, with the next closest candidate receiving 34%.

According to the Catholic church, Mary appeared at Fatima, Portugal numerous times in 1917 from May through October to three little shepherd children. The Roman Catholic church has endorsed and fully accepted ("approved") these visions as being from God and they have in turn affected hundreds of millions of people over the years.All Popes from Benedict XV (1914-1922) and afterward have favorably spoken about Fatima, showing their acceptance and belief in the Fatima Marian apparitions and O Sourc

Why Wayne Grudem’s interpretation of Ephesians 5:21 is untenable.In Ephesians 5:21, Paul instructs Christians to “submit to one another.” These words have traditionally been understood to require mutual submission, even among family members. The reformer John Calvin, for example, acknowledged that the notion of a father submitting to his child or a husband submitting to his wife might seem “strange at first glance,” but he never questioned that such submission is in

SAN DIEGO: Interest in the early Church and in building a prayer life around the liturgical calendar have never been higher among the Catholic laity. A new book from Catholic Answers Press combines those two interests in a unique spiritual resource.In Feasts of Our Fathers: Praying the Church Year with the Early Christians, prolific patristics author Mike Aquilina teams up with rising influencer Adam Lucas to create a spiritual companion meant to be consulted throughout the year and for year aft

Indonesia's Compassion First isn’t knocking down doors, but caring for victims and tutoring at-risk youth living in cemeteries.Inside a cemetery in West Java, a woman rests on a mattress laid on top of a gravestone beneath the oak trees. The graveyard is home not only to the dead but to the living poor, who have nowhere else to go.Residents of the Rose Cemetery community collect garbage, drive pedicabs, or clean graves by day. In the northern section of the cemetery, about 200 families liv

An excerpt from Larry Tye’s The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America.“Does Jazz Put the Sin in Syncopation?” asked a 1921 Ladies Home Journal article. Whimsical wordplay aside, the question would become a serious one for mid-century America, as parsons and priests blamed jazz for soaring juvenile crime rates, drugs, and extramarital sex. A 1960 poll found that, among Black preachers, just 1 in 5 wanted to let jazz or blues into their