In 2025, I celebrated my 35th anniversary in full-time journalism. I’ve spent the last 20 of those with The Christian ...

Jerry Mitchell is a Christian and a journalist. To some readers in a hyperpartisan age, that description may sound like an [… ...

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Decades before winning election as Oklahoma’s top education official in 2022 — and before igniting a national furor on religion in public schools by requiring a Bible in every classroom — Walters was ...

LA CHAPELLE AU RIBOUL, FRANCE — When nuns listed a vacant Catholic girls’ school for sale in this sleepy French village in 2017, American Jerry Jones saw an opportunity to expand Christian influence ...

Churches of Christ are tiny in number in France. In the Western European nation of 68.5 million people, the fellowship counts just a half-dozen known congregations, according to longtime church ...

HOUSTON — On a blue-sky afternoon in this diverse Texas metropolis, about 50 Ukrainian refugees enjoy pizza, cupcakes and fellowship at the Memorial Church of Christ. All of the families seem to know ...

LUBBOCK, TEXAS — As autumn approaches, aspiring missionaries in their late teens and early 20s arrive at Sunset International Bible Institute’s West Texas campus. Forty-five students — 27 women and 18 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Nashville saw its first case of the “Spanish flu” in late September 1918. By November, 1,300 had died — 1 percent of the city’s population. The influenza would kill almost 700,000 ...

MARSEILLE, FRANCE — At the northern edge of this seaside port city — first settled by Greek sailors 2,600 years ago — stands the abandoned Betheline monastery. It’s just one of thousands of decaying ...

ABILENE, TEXAS — For students at Abilene Christian University, the debate over traditional vs. affirming views on same-sex relationships is not purely theological. It’s personal. Whether they support ...