Lifeway Research has revealed that the Southern Baptist Convention’s total membership dropped by 3% between 2024 and 2025, but that the convention saw significant increases in both weekly church attendance and baptisms. While the convention saw a 3% drop in membership, to 12,331,954 members, Baptist Press notes: On average, nearly
Self-styled ‘prophet’ Brian Carn Jr. of Kingdom City Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, has been sentenced to nine months in prison for tax evasion, mere months after insisting he wouldn’t serve any time. We’ve covered Carn and his antics before in our posts: Three months ago, Carn, 37, pled guilty
Tennessee evangelist, author, and Bible teacher Perry Stone is claiming that a group of influential pastors were recently summoned to a private briefing with U.S. intelligence officials in order to prepare them for an upcoming government release of classified documents and evidence related to extraterrestrial life. Stone is perhaps best
Two years after the Archdiocese of Los Angeles reached an $880 million settlement with men and women who survived childhood sexual abuse at the hands of Roman Catholic priests and clergy in their diocese, the Catholic Archdiocese of New York is following suit, agreeing to pay more than $800 million
Director Mel Gibson has announced that his upcoming film The Resurrection of the Christ has wrapped filming, with an expected release date of 2027. Gibson revealed that, unlike The Passion of the Christ, which was released in 2004 on a $30 million budget and went on to gross more than
MIke Todd of Transformation Church continues to showcase his love for fashion and hatred for ever wearing the same piece ofd clothing twice, with a recent spate of outfits pushing the limits of price and good taste. A few recent examples: Todd preached at the Gapstanders conference earlier this week,
Prominent “Christian” detransitioner Neeza Powers is experiencing a massive exodus of fans and followers after releasing multiple videos reneging on his previous detransition and instead insisting that he is really a woman. Neeza, whose real name is Thomas Powers, shot to fame last summer after claiming he had become a
Pastor, author, and apologist Sam Allberry has resigned from his position at his church and from the Keller Institute after revealing that he had been involved in an inappropriate relationship with a man several years ago. Allberry, a gay Anglican priest who endorsed celibacy for the same-sex attracted, served as
Back in 2022, we pushed back hard against a series of high-profile “watchdog” articles, arguing that they relied less on proof and more on narrative construction. At the time, that claim was dismissed by many as partisan defensiveness. Today, with the help of modern AI analysis, those same rhetorical techniques
What began as long-whispered allegations about Michael Tait has now exploded into a $50 billion federal lawsuit, one that claims the scandal was not just reported but weaponized. The case pits the Newsboys and their business partners against major concert promoters, MercyMe, and Julie Roys of all people, raising uncomfortable
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