Proof The Bible Is True

Whoa.

Encouraging.

A youth pastor died after rounding one of the miles of the Portland Marathon on Sunday. Treyton “Trey” Lara, 24, […]

"It's easy to be embarrassed when we should actually just lean into [it]."

"I've been through so much in my life..."

Concerning.

"God's speaking to you."

"Be patient and see what we find."

The end of an era.

Inspiring.

Faith leaders in Erie, Pennsylvania, are pledging support after a 45-year-old grandfather fatally shot eight people at his home Friday, including his wife, pregnant daughter, two sons and two grandchildren, before killing himself. 

A Christian pastor who has spent years building relationships with Muslims and a historian who has studied Islamic history and doctrine debated whether Islam’s theological and political teachings make it possible for the religion to coexist in Western society. 

A 6-year-old first grader who shot his teacher in the chest at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia, in 2023, swore at police officers and admitted to stealing a gun from his mother, a newly released police body camera video shows.

A former Cornell University student who alleges she was sexually assaulted by multiple men at a fraternity house is reeling after police showed up at her parents’ home with weapons drawn, according to her attorney.

Hurricane Isaias is expected to make landfall in the United States as the first major hurricane of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season, with heavy rainfall and storm surge among the impacts forecasted for the U.S. Gulf Coast.

An Iowa mayor and self-identified born-again Christian says he plans to review his city’s invocation policy after a satanic prayer at a city council meeting went viral.

Here are six highlights from Caleb Flynn’s sentencing hearing, where emotional testimony from the defendant as well as family members of his slain wife Ashley was shared and/or read aloud in the courtroom.

The aunt of Christa Pike claimed in a recent interview that God willed the recent botched execution of her niece, who had been sentenced to death in Tennessee for torturing and murdering a young woman in 1995.

Gary Keesee Sr., co-founder and senior pastor of Faith Life Church in New Albany, Ohio, denied in court Monday that he knew his son, Gary Thomas "Tom" Keesee Jr., had allegedly sexually abused multiple minors when he was also a minor, prior to those allegations becoming public.

A federal appeals court panel unanimously ruled that a Christian auto repair chain can franchise only to Christians, dismissing a lawsuit by a Jewish franchise applicant.

Professional wrestler Samoa Joe is encouraging Christians to tithe, characterizing his commitment to donating a portion of his income to his church as one of his “greatest decisions.” 

A former Cornell University student’s lawsuit alleging that she was drugged and gang-raped inside a fraternity house has led to the reopening of a criminal investigation into the woman’s claims and raised questions about how the university responded to the allegations.

Two TikTok influencers have been charged with first-degree arson for allegedly setting a fire to a vacant home in West Virginia that spread to a local church, causing $10,000 in damages.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shared his strong discomfort with efforts to attribute religious or moral authority to artificial intelligence (AI) systems just days after a competitor AI affirmed the divinity of Jesus of Nazareth in a viral exchange on X.

Husbands and wives who attend church regularly, pray often and embrace their faith’s classic teachings, including the belief that marriage is a life commitment, have more and better sex than their secular peers, a new report from The Institute for Family Studies has found.

Katie Zacharia began her tenure as White House press secretary Monday and is scheduled to hold her first press briefing Tuesday, after President Donald Trump announced her appointment. Here are five things to know about the Christian mother of four, legal expert and political campaigner.

A new court ruling protects nearly all healthcare providers affiliated with Catholic and Christian healthcare institutions in the state of Illinois from having to provide or refer patients for assisted suicide as litigation surrounding the state’s new assisted suicide mandate continues. 

A Christian pastor is facing a criminal charge after refusing to leave while praying on a sidewalk outside the Chinese Embassy in Washington to protest Chinese President Xi Jinping’s treatment of religious minorities.

A group of ministers has publicly called on the Rev. Adam Hamilton, a United Methodist Church megachurch pastor running for U.S. Senate as a Democrat in Kansas, to repent of key theological teachings and withdraw from the Senate race, even as he draws high-profile endorsements from former Republican governors.

Pastor Frederick D. Haynes III, who leads the 13,000-member Friendship-West Baptist Church in Dallas and is running for Congress, was accused in a 2009 lawsuit of sending $2,000 to a woman who had mailed him a topless photo.

A Christian family group is warning a new California “anti-hate speech” law may force the Church to practice civil disobedience. 

How long will the U.S. Food and Drug Administration take to finish its review of the abortion pill? Pro-life leaders got an answer this week, and they didn’t like it. That news led a busy week for the Trump administration, which also saw the president hold several rallies ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm elections. 

Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America has announced that it has made over three million home visits ahead of the midterm elections, which could have implications for abortion policy at both the state and federal levels. 

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., released another batch of entries from Dr. Anthony Fauci's personal diary Wednesday dating from between 2015 and 2019, some of which expressed criticism for President Donald Trump.

The United States Senate is considering a proposed bill that would stop college students pursuing religious vocations from being denied access to federal aid via a new earnings test.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has reflected on the court’s 2022 landmark abortion ruling, calling it “the leading example” of a case that required courage from the justices. But he doesn't believe that the court will overturn the court's 2015 ruling making same-sex marriage a national right.

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case in which two neighbors are trying to stop a Catholic group in Kentucky from building a shrine to the Virgin Mary on its own land.

Los Angeles is free to keep displaying a cross and Nativity scene in one of its historic districts after a federal court declined to reverse a lower court decision rejecting a constitutional challenge to the displays in what a religious liberty law firm is praising as “common sense.” 

Here are five highlights from the past week, including a new determination on the number of refugees that will be admitted to the United States and the withdrawal of the remaining U.S. troops from Iraq.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth heralded the creation of the Pentagon's new Office of Religious Affairs by quoting from the Psalms, an announcement that drew criticism from secularist advocates and support from a Catholic archdiocese. 

AI-powered glasses make cameras and artificial intelligence less visible than ever, raising new questions about privacy and consent. As Meta strengthens safeguards around its smart glasses, Christians have an opportunity to ask a deeper question: How can we embrace useful technology while still treating the people around us with dignity, wisdom, and love?

America's deeply ingrained myth of divine chosenness and its purely Christian origins has long been celebrated, but a closer look at history reveals a far more complex and often contradictory narrative. 

Startling new reports reveal a dramatic decline in LGBT identification among young people, especially teenagers, reversing years of perceived growth. 

Inspired by a childhood memory, this article reveals how parents can powerfully instill a missional mindset in their children, fostering spiritual growth and family unity. 

Record-breaking heat is more than a weather story. Older adults and people without reliable cooling can face serious risks long before anyone realizes something is wrong. Scripture calls Christians not only to steward God's creation but also to notice and care for vulnerable people. Here are practical ways churches and families can turn that responsibility into action.

The British Parliament recently rejected a bill to legalize euthanasia in England and Wales, yet the fiercely debated issue persists as advocates champion individual autonomy as the cornerstone of dignity. 

Bible reading is rising in America, but knowing Scripture and being formed by it are not necessarily the same thing. Recent Barna conversations raise an important question for Christians: Do we simply recognize Jesus and His teachings, or are His words actually changing the way we live? Here’s how believers can move from information about Jesus toward deeper discipleship and transformation.

A viral moment at a baseball game ignited a storm of online criticism, revealing widely held but often misguided assumptions about modern marriage, particularly for women. 

AI and data centers promise extraordinary technological and economic growth, but they also require enormous amounts of electricity. As Texas prepares for dramatically higher power demand, Christians have an opportunity to ask a deeper question: Does technological progress reflect biblical stewardship when the systems, resources, and people supporting it are pushed toward their limits?

A recent high-profile trial has exposed a disturbing evolution in societal discourse, where arguments previously used to justify abortion are now being applied to other tragic acts.

With the federal government borrowing $2 trillion over the past 12 months, 88% of U.S. voters say addressing the federal deficit is important – yet they disagree on what the best solution is, new polling shows.

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U.S. President Donald J. Trump announced Sunday that Russia and Ukraine had agreed to an immediate ceasefire covering attacks on each other's energy infrastructure, but questions emerged after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy indicated he had not been informed of such an agreement.

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A Chinese pastor who spent nearly nine months behind bars for leading one of China's largest underground Protestant churches will receive a prestigious human rights award named after the late Tom Lantos, the only Holocaust survivor to serve in the U.S. Congress, organizers announced.

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Belgium's interior minister has called for the immediate arrest of masked protesters following violent clashes in Brussels, where demonstrations against government budget cuts were overshadowed by unrest and eight detained youths were released because juvenile detention facilities were full.

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An Israeli-born former Muslim-turned-evangelist says his Christian media ministry, which reaches Muslims through television and online broadcasts, has helped more than 100,000 people embrace faith in Jesus Christ amid reports of growing Christianity in Muslim-majority countries despite persecution.

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Australian engineer Robert Pether and his Egyptian colleague Khaled Radwan have left Iraq after a five-year ordeal involving imprisonment and travel restrictions over disputed fraud convictions that United Nations experts condemned as arbitrary detention.

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The Netherlands has agreed to return a historic diamond seized during its colonial rule over Indonesia, along with 19 other cultural objects, while advancing plans to transfer thousands of fossils and ancestral remains under an earlier restitution decision.

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Indonesia’s influential Islamic religious council has urged the government to ban concerts by world-renowned Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli over his alleged support for Israel, days after authorities refused permission for an American Gospel singer to perform in the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation.

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U.S. federal agents raided the Washington home of influential Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar early Monday as part of a criminal investigation reportedly involving her immigration records, just weeks before crucial midterm elections that will determine control of Congress.

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Israeli archaeologists have uncovered a remarkably preserved section of a 2,000-year-old aqueduct that once carried water to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, offering fresh evidence of the engineering achievements of ancient Israel during the Second Temple period.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly seeking Saudi Arabia’s approval to launch military strikes against Iran-backed Houthi forces in Yemen, a move that could open the door to unprecedented Israeli-Saudi military cooperation as the conflict threatens to engulf more of the Middle East.

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President Donald Trump has amplified warnings from musician Kid Rock about the growing influence of Islamic ideology in Michigan, sharing a video in which the outspoken conservative entertainer expressed fears of a future religious conflict and sharply criticized Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed.

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Israel and the United States have condemned a decision to award this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to South African human rights lawyer Navi Pillay, whose United Nations commission accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza, allegations the Jewish state strongly denies.

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Iran-backed Houthi militants launched a devastating missile attack Saturday against King Khalid International Airport in Saudi Arabia's capital, killing at least 12 people and injuring more than 300, as the widening Middle East conflict threatens to draw the United States into another confrontation with Tehran's regional allies.

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Two people were killed and another injured as Hurricane Isaias brought damaging winds, falling trees and widespread power outages across the Southeast, with emergency crews beginning recovery efforts Saturday.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused the United States on Saturday of helping finance Russia's invasion of his country through a new diesel supply agreement with Moscow, as Ukrainian families mourned 12 people, including three children, killed in a Russian airstrike.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused the United States of being unwilling to help Ukraine after a Russian bomb attack killed at least 35 people in the eastern city of Kramatorsk on Thursday, bringing the reported death toll from Russian strikes across the country over two days to at least 78 people.

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Dozens of Christian families have reportedly fled their village in Pakistan’s Punjab province after a Muslim mob set fire to the home and pharmacy of a Christian father of three accused of blasphemy, religious freedom advocates confirmed Saturday.

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Nine inmates and a two-year-old boy visiting his imprisoned father were killed in a riot at a prison in northwestern Mexico, authorities confirmed Friday.

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German police arrested a 60-year-old man Friday after he allegedly shot dead two government employees who visited his home to check his firearms in the southern state of Bavaria, shocking a community where such violence is rare.

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Any number of recent surveys indicate an upheaval in American Christianity. Political scientist Ryan Burge’s work, which has set the pace for several years now, alongside studies by the Pew Research Center and the Public Religion Research Institute, provides a sober assessment of what our congregations, whether historic mainline denominations or nondenominational megachurches, will look Read more...

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As a sociologist of religion, I’ve had a front-row seat to the explosive growth of debate over Christian nationalism in America.  Early on, I thought the concept was a helpful one. Like many, I was troubled and bewildered by widespread conservative Christian support for Donald Trump, a man whose conduct seemed incongruous with the commitments Read more...

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Whenever diaspora Burmese Christians gathered in Boston, they would drive up to the 18th-century white colonial-style house on 145 Main Street in Malden, Massachusetts, where Baptist missionary Adoniram Judson was born and lived for the first four and a half years of his life. They’d snap a quick picture in the yard and then get Read more...

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Ruth LePage, director of refugee services at Arrive Ministries, a refugee resettlement agency in Minnesota, said she misses late-night airport welcomes.  In refugee family reunification cases, the normally quiet arrivals hall is filled with family members dressed as if they’re going to a party, holding balloons and welcome banners. Children crane their necks, hoping to Read more...

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Christians know well the biblical commands to be in the world but not of it (John 17:15­–18) and to be conformed to God’s will rather than the pattern of fallen humanity (Rom. 12:1–2). Yet distinguishing what Scripture teaches from the influence of our surroundings is often more difficult than we realize—particularly in conversations about sin. Read more...

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This piece was adapted from CT’s books newsletter. Subscribe here. Gene Edward Veith Jr. and A. Trevor Sutton, Irreplaceable: Humanity, Vocation, and the Limits of Technology (Baker Books, 2026) Christians are writing a lot of books about technology at the moment. You can see why. Even before the extraordinary potential of AI became apparent with the Read more...

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When Victor Wanjala lost his job in 2010, he lost everything, including his marriage and savings. The father of eight from Trans-Nzoia County, Kenya, worked nearly four decades as a customs officer. His job enabled him to pay for his children’s education, support relatives financially, and provide gifts for his family. Then his father—a polygamist Read more...

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Sunday school was nearly empty. Our teachers prepared lessons every week and announced them in the church newsletter. Yet three years after the pandemic, adult attendance averaged about 15 in a church with over 300 members. And sometimes, there were no children. “Zero kids?” I asked the children’s minister. “How often does that happen?” She Read more...

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This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter. Subscribe here. The “Cornell seven” sexual assault case shocked the nation this week. Americans read and heard about members of the Chi Phi fraternity at one of the nation’s most elite university allegedly raping a young woman—a classmate—who was reportedly under the influence of alcohol and ketamine. Investigations and Read more...

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Every time I return to Kenya, it feels a bit like coming home. Which is weird—I’m an American who lives in Burundi. But my family lived in Kenya years ago, and we still visit frequently. We walk out of Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, and I remember my fender bender in airport parking. We Read more...

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