Inspiration Faith & Prayer Health & Wellness Entertainment Love & Family
Newsletters Special Offers

Christ News Today

Public Domain
CS Lewis, most famous for his popular children’s series, The Chronicles of Narnia, made the rounds online this past week with his “A Christmas Sermon for Pagans” making an appearance in preparation for the Christmas season. Prior to being a beloved children’s author, Lewis was a renowned Christian thinker and apologist, with his radio talks…

First Baptist Church Lawton / Facebook | Inset: Adobe Stock
An Oklahoma church is bearing the fruits of obedience after it decided to do two weekends of its Christmas program instead of one. First Baptist Church of Lawton’s worship pastor, Xavier Abraham, approached Senior Pastor Mike Keahbone with the idea of adding another weekend. It was a request that seemed impossible. “[Abraham] approached us with…

Martine Kaspersen / Innlandet County Municipality
Norway’s Innlandet County Municipality has recently revealed the discovery of a very rare golden coin that features the face of Jesus Christ. According to a statement from the County, the coin, referred to as a “histamenon nomisma,” was found by a metal detectorist in the mountains in Vestre Slidre. Such gold coins were first minted…

Lightstock
As Christmas soon approaches, one phrase that may be heard a lot is the “Immaculate Conception.” However, it’s a phrase that most people, particularly Protestants, don’t have a clear understanding of. In 2018, Chris Cuomo famously chastised Representative Matt Gaetz (R, FL) for his misuse of the term. During an interview with Cuomo, Gaetz called…

Israel Antiquities Authority / Facebook
The oldest roof tiles ever have been discovered in the Givati Parking Lot excavation in the City of David. The six ancient ceramic roof tiles have been dated to the second century BC and are significant because of their Hellenistic or Greek style, which would not become a prominent feature in Israeli architecture until nearly…

Adobe Stock
Florida’s second largest school district voted unanimously on Wednesday to keep the Bible in its school libraries after an atheist challenged the Bible as being “too sensitive or controversial for a typical classroom setting.” The vote was made by the 9-member panel of the Broward County School District Superintendent Review Committee, formed last year as…

Adobe Stock
The atheist Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF) recently set it sights on a Kansas teacher after complaints that the teacher was having students perform Christian worship music. The complaint came from a parent whose student attends Challenger Intermediate School in the Goddard Unified School District in Goddard, Kansas. In its letter to the district, the…

Adobe Stock
Upstate Church in South Carolina, which has six sites and 7,000 members in the Simpsonville area, is celebrating a momentous day after baptizing 141 people in a single day on December 3rd. The baptism service was planned in advance, with 86 originally signing up to be baptized. By the end of the service, 55 other…

Adobe Stock
For over a decade, Ellie Hidalgo has been campaigning to expand the role of women in the Catholic Church. The Miami woman is co-director of a nonprofit, Discerning Deacons, which invites other Catholics to consider ordaining women as deacons, a clergy role that has always been opened to married men. That would allow women, for…

Author and pastor John Burke is detailing his examinations of over 1,000 near-death experiences in his new book, Imagine the God of Heaven: Near-Death Experiences, God’s Revelation, and the Love You’ve Always Wanted. Burke was formerly an agnostic who was intrigued by stories of near-death experiences. “So, hearing these experiences as an engineer got me…
archives most recent
search this blog
More from Beliefnet and our partners