Christianity

CHICAGO (RNS) — Clarence “Coodie” Simmons is a believer. Simmons believed a young music producer and aspiring rapper named Kanye West was going to be a star. The filmmaker believed God was directing his life when he upended it to follow West, now Ye, from Chicago to New York City…

For Quick Alerts Subscribe Now   For Quick Alerts ALLOW NOTIFICATIONS   | Published: Monday, February 14, 2022, 23:48 New Delhi, Feb 14: The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the CBI to proceed with the probe into the suicide of a 17-year-old girl in Thanjavur who was allegedly coerced to…

(RNS) — See if you can spot the lie: Joel Osteen has three private jets named “The Father,” “The Son,” and “The Holy Spirit”; Jim Bakker has a full amusement park on his property — complete with Bible story-themed rides; Jerry Falwell Jr., in his youth, participated in an underground…

(RNS) — Christena Cleveland refuses to be placed in a box. Having built a career as a social psychologist and public theologian on the faculty of Duke Divinity School and with a busy speaking schedule, in 2019, Cleveland left her position and her talks on racial reconciliation behind to found…

At Thursday’s 69th National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., President Joe Biden provided a jarring sound bite that demonstrates why America doesn’t need the National Prayer Breakfast. In his remarks, Biden called Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) his friend. Then he said of the man who created a new…

Pastor David Platt said at the recent Passion 2022 conference that young Christians should try to avoid "casual, comfortable, cultural Christianity." "Be finished and done with a form of Christianity that says, 'Pray a prayer, go to church, live it up in the world, go to some conferences and coast…

Two-time Grammy Award-nominated Christian rapper Brady “Phanatik” Goodwin recently publicly renounced Christianity after years of harboring doubts about the faith. Goodwin was one of the co-founders of the influential Christian rap group The Cross Movement, which has collaborated with Lecrae, Trip Lee, Tedashii, Flame and more. On Monday, Goodwin posted…

Famous Nigerian author, Reno Omokri has spoken out about the thorny issue of polygamy and Christianity.In response to a query on whether polygamy is a sin, Reno stated that men of God were permitted to have more than one wife in the Old Testament of the Bible. He did point…

NAIROBI, Kenya, January 27, 2022 (Morning Star News) – A former mosque leader in eastern Uganda who converted to Christianity died on Tuesday (Jan. 25), succumbing to injuries sustained when Muslim relatives beat him on Jan. 13, sources said. Pastor Bashir Sengendo, a father of four, was 35. He returned…

Grammy award-winning artist Lecrae recently lost a tour date scheduled for this spring after he tweeted that he was no longer part of the institutionalized church. “Once upon a time I thought I was done with Christianity. But the reality was I was just done with the institutional, corporatized, gentrified,…