Who were the Anabaptists?
This year marks the 500th anniversary of the founding of the Anabaptist movement — a chapter in Christian history that is not so well known.
The Christian Post
Skip to main contentThis year marks the 500th anniversary of the founding of the Anabaptist movement — a chapter in Christian history that is not so well known.
Except for its main campus in Southlake, Texas, Gateway Church has announced that it will soon be hosting worship services exclusively on Sunday as it grapples with dwindling donations in the aftermath of the alleged child sex abuse scandal involving the megachurch’s founder, Robert Morris.
New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, dismissed two more pastors for failures in their handling of knowledge related to Gateway Church founder Robert Morris' alleged sexual abuse of Cindy Clemishire beginning when she was 12 in the 1980s.
A week after 31-year-old Brian Browning attempted a mass shooting at CrossPointe Community Church in Wayne, Michigan, the congregation’s pastor urged his members to forgive him while acknowledging the trauma from the incident.
Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, is planning to open a memorial honoring its members who were murdered during a Bible study by an avowed white supremacist in 2015.
Leaders at Pastor J.D. Greear's 12,000-member multi-campus The Summit Church are defending him and the organization after a docuseries on their failed merger with Faith Baptist Church in Knightdale, North Carolina, suggested the megachurch used questionable tactics in a bid to take over the non-denominational church and its 30-acre campus valued at an estimated $25 million.
Jimmy Swaggart, the popular Pentecostal preacher and televangelist who garnered national headlines for his extramarital affairs, has died at the age of 90 following a cardiac arrest.
Some members of New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, mounted a strong protest outside the church on Sunday, a week after elders announced they asked Senior Pastor Brady Boyd to resign.
Events that occurred this week in Christian history include the battle of Hattin, an opponent of Martin Luther being made a cardinal, and the Augsburg Interim.