Events that occurred this week in Christian history include the Synod of Pistoia, the first ordination of a female minister in the United States, and the assassination of a Spanish inquisitor. ... Read full Story
Moody Bible Institute has announced that George Sweeting, who served the institution for nearly 30 years between his time as president and later as chancellor, died Tuesday at the age of 99. He was “at heart an evangelist and soul winner,” the institute said. ... Read full Story
Three months after announcing that the Rev. Kevin R. Johnson was selected as its new senior pastor, Abyssinian Baptist Church, the renowned black Baptist congregation founded in New York City more than 200 years ago, will officially install him this month. ... Read full Story
Televangelist and Kingdom of Jesus Christ leader Apollo Quiboloy who surrendered to authorities Sunday after a contentious two-week standoff with Philippines Police over his arrest has pleaded not guilty to human trafficking and the sexual abuse of children as more alleged victims have come forward. ... Read full Story
Controversial Tennessee Pastor Greg Locke says he and his family will not be returning to their home following a "surreal" drive-by shooting in which gunmen riddled his house and truck with 60 bullets in less than three seconds just over a week ago. ... Read full Story
The share of Evangelical Protestant Christians giving financially to churches fell significantly in the last three years, a new survey suggests, as researchers warn that Evangelical giving is "way down." The average Evangelical donor donates 2.8% of their household income to churches, down from 3.2% in 2021. ... Read full Story
Missionaries from all corners of the globe gathered for the first time in six years at the Youth With A Mission (YWAM) Together 2024 in Manila, Philippines, with 4,500 people from 110 nationalities and currently serving in 120 countries. ... Read full Story
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and its former president, Adam W. Greenway, reached a settlement, the seminary announced Monday, after Greenway offered to drop the lawsuit before his scheduled deposition with no monetary compensation. ... Read full Story
James Morris, the son of disgraced Gateway Church founder Robert Morris in Southlake, Texas, has announced that the new church he intends to plant will be called Passage Church. ... Read full Story
Author and pastor Alistair Begg has announced plans to retire as the senior pastor of Parkside Church in Cleveland, Ohio, on Sept. 14, 2025, five decades after entering into the ministry. ... Read full Story
A preacher who was shot in the head last November is nearing a return to his ministry after doctors previously believed he would not be able to survive the mysterious gunshot wound. ... Read full Story
A woman has accused the John MacArthur-led Grace Community Church of Sun Valley, California, of disciplining her when she sought separation from her husband and alleged that she "often felt bullied and talked down to" during counseling sessions with church leaders. ... Read full Story
A woman has accused the John MacArthur-led Grace Community Church of Sun Valley, California, of disciplining her when she sought separation from her husband and alleged that she "often felt bullied and talked down to" during counseling sessions with church leaders. ... Read full Story
When her husband, Kirbyjon Caldwell, who formerly led the 14,000 member Windsor Village United Methodist Church in Texas, began his six year prison term in June 2021 for defrauding members of his church and other investors, Suzette Caldwell, the church’s current senior pastor said she “cried a river.” ... Read full Story
After a contentious two-week standoff with Philippines police at his church's 74-acre compound in Davao City, popular televangelist and Kingdom of Jesus Christ leader Apollo Quiboloy surrendered to authorities Sunday to answer to child sex trafficking and other charges. ... Read full Story
The community of Piperton, Tennessee, is mourning the tragic loss of Senior Pastor Bobby Mullins of Kirk Baptist Church and his wife, Wanda, who died as a result of a car accident Tuesday that occurred while they were returning home after her work shift at Baptist DeSoto Hospital, where she served as an ICU waiting room receptionist. ... Read full Story
Events that occurred this week in Christian history include Johann Philipp Fabricius arriving in India, Carlo Spinola being martyred, and the papacy moving back to Rome. ... Read full Story
Pastor and author Alistair Begg lamented the diminishing role of Scripture in congregational life, warning that modern churchgoers often arrive not with a sense of reverence but with a consumerist mindset and called for a return to “serious engagement with the Bible.” ... Read full Story
Mark Dever, senior pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., highlighted the significance of the Magnificat and how its context can serve as an instructive model for today's churches in a message delivered at the Getty's Sing! Conference in Nashville, Tennessee. ... Read full Story
Though churches have reported ongoing declines in worship service attendance, their fiscal health has not suffered as significantly because the faithful who continue to attend have been giving more to cover operating expenses, a new study suggests. ... Read full Story
"Like clouds, the shapes of our galaxy’s glittery nebulae are sometimes in the eye of the beholder. They can look like all sorts of animals: tarantulas, crabs, a running chicken, and now, a cosmic koi swimming through space." — Laura Baisas, PopSci.com, 13 June 2024
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The history of nebula belongs not to the mists of time but to the mists of Latin: in that language nebula means "mist" or "cloud." In its earliest English uses in the 1600s, nebula was chiefly a medical term that could refer either to a cloudy formation in urine or to a cloudy speck or film on the eye. Nebula was first applied to great interstellar clouds of gas and dust in the early 1700s. The adjective nebulous comes from the same Latin root as nebula, and it is considerably older, being first used as a synonym of cloudy or foggy as early as the 1300s. Like nebula, this adjective was not used in an astronomical sense until centuries later.