Pastor Greg Laurie urged Christians at Turning Point USA's Faith Forward Pastors Summit to pray for revival amid a growing spiritual hunger he said is manifesting among young men especially. ... Read full Story
Pastor John Amanchukwu urged pastors and other Christians on Wednesday to speak boldly against the increasingly blatant evil in American culture during Turning Point USA's Faith Forward Pastors Summit. ... Read full Story
A church is marking its 100th anniversary with an exhibition that features a Bible once owned by Elvis Presley, the king of rock 'n' roll, who was a devout Christian known for traveling with a Bible among his belongings. ... Read full Story
Franklin Graham’s legal team has revealed details of a growing “defense fund” to support Christians facing discrimination for expressing their faith — a fund created from successful court rulings after multiple British venues attempted to cancel Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA)'s “God Loves You!” evangelistic events. ... Read full Story
A Ugandan child suffering from spasticity issues so severe that her mother had to carry her everywhere was among the first recipients of one of more than 200 specially designed wheelchairs that two Christian ministries are delivering to a children’s hospital in Uganda. ... Read full Story
A popular California pastor is warning Christians they might have to flee the state if lawmakers pass a controversial bill that would allow nearly any adult to take custody of a child without alerting parents. ... Read full Story
A church concert in the United Kingdom came to an abrupt halt when a barefoot bishop in a blue dressing gown took the microphone and ordered 360 attendees to leave, calling the choir’s singing a “terrible racket.” The audience was moments away from hearing the final number, “Dancing Queen,” when the lights went out and the eviction began. ... Read full Story
The Church in Wales has named a new Archbishop who is openly in a same-sex relationship, drawing sharp criticism from the rights group Christian Concern. The appointment has ignited a debate over the Church’s commitment to traditional biblical teachings. ... Read full Story
Events that occurred this week in Christian history include the founding of the Philippine Independent Church, the death of a Scottish Presbyterian historian, and the consecration of Pope Stephen III. ... Read full Story
The Rev. Bernard Randall reportedly contemplated self-immolating on the floor of the Church of England's General Synod to protest his continued blacklisting from his vocation. ... Read full Story
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has elected its first African American presiding bishop, who will be succeeding the denomination’s first female head. ... Read full Story
Brent Leatherwood, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, has stepped down from office, four years after he was tasked with leading the convention's political advocacy arm. ... Read full Story
Dodie Osteen, the co-founder of Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, and the mother of the church’s current leader, Joel Osteen, has died more than four decades after she said she was miraculously healed from metastatic liver cancer, even though doctors gave her weeks to live in 1981. She was 91. ... Read full Story
A member of the prosecution in a church trial against an Anglican bishop who allegedly mishandled allegations of abuse claims the court's proceedings have been tainted. ... Read full Story
Members of a church in Georgia aim to conduct 10,000 Gospel conversations over the next five years as part of a new initiative to foster a culture in which "evangelism is normal" within the congregation.
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In a recent Ask Pastor John episode, John Piper weighed in on how to discern whether life’s obstacles are from God’s sovereign redirection or Satan’s opposition. ... Read full Story
The Episcopal Church and the family of a bishop suspended over credible abuse allegations have agreed to a resolution over concerns that the family had about the disciplinary process. ... Read full Story
Events that occurred this week in Christian history include the capture of John Knox, Parliament's act to evangelize America, and the death of a papal emissary in Mongolia. ... Read full Story
The Christian Post reached out to a couple of churches involved in Pulpit Freedom Sunday to get their perspectives on the IRS decision to allow pastors to endorse candidates from the pulpit. ... Read full Story
Gateway Church founder Robert Morris has insisted on resolving a bitter pay dispute with the Texas megachurch through Christian arbitration, following a district judge's order to reach an agreement on an arbitrator within 30 days. ... Read full Story
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for August 10, 2025 is:
hidebound \HYDE-bound\ adjective
Someone or something described as hidebound is inflexible and unwilling to accept new or different ideas.
// Although somewhat stuffy and strict, the professor did not so completely adhere to hidebound academic tradition that he wouldn’t teach class outside on an especially lovely day.
“He was exciting then, different from all the physicists I worked with in the way that he was so broadly educated and interested, not hidebound and literal, as my colleagues were.” — Joe Mungo Reed, Terrestrial History: A Novel, 2025
Did you know?
Hidebound has its origins in agriculture. The adjective, which appeared in English in the early 17th century, originally described cattle whose skin, due to illness or poor feeding, clung to the skeleton and could not be pinched, loosened, or worked with the fingers (the adjective followed an earlier noun form referring to this condition). Hidebound was applied to humans too, to describe people afflicted with tight skin. Figurative use quickly followed, first with a meaning of “stingy” or “miserly.” That sense has since fallen out of use, but a second figurative usage, describing people who are rigid or unyielding in their actions or beliefs, lives on in our language today.