Events that occurred this week in Christian history include the battle of Hattin, an opponent of Martin Luther being made a cardinal, and the Augsburg Interim. ... Read full Story
John Piper recently urged Christians, especially teens, not to ask how close they can get to sin like mild drunkenness but instead to pursue full clarity of mind and the fullness of the Holy Spirit as the true path to closeness with God. ... Read full Story
A Texas pastor who is back home with his family after spending a week trying to evacuate the war-torn Middle East is crediting the prayers from his congregation for helping secure his return to the United States. ... Read full Story
The Presbyterian Church in America has voted to form a committee to study the nature and influence of Christian nationalism within the theologically conservative denomination. ... Read full Story
Thousands of dollars have been raised for two members of CrossPointe Community Church in Wayne, Michigan, who are now being hailed as heroes for helping to stop a man who attempted to carry out a mass shooting during the church's worship service on Sunday. ... Read full Story
U.S. District Judge for the Middle District of North Carolina William Osteen Jr. has temporarily canceled a decision of the Chatham County Board of Commissioners to reject the request by former Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear's The Summit Church to rezone nearly 100 acres of land to house its Chapel Hill campus. ... Read full Story
Jimmy Swaggart’s family will hold a meeting to discuss next steps for the 90-year-old televangelist, with his son saying he is “facing the end” after a severe heart attack. ... Read full Story
Children’s Hunger Fund, based in California, broke ground last month on a new facility in Prosper, about 25 miles north of Dallas, where an estimated 100 million meals will eventually be distributed to local children living in poverty. ... Read full Story
The leaders of America’s largest historically black Baptist denominations are expected to respond this week after megachurch Pastor Jamal accused them and the Church of God in Christ of accepting a $300,000 donation from retail giant Target amid an ongoing boycott of the company over its scaling back of diversity, equity, and inclusion policies. ... Read full Story
Kevin DeYoung, a prominent pastor, author, and council member of The Gospel Coalition, has been elected the moderator of The Presbyterian Church in America General Assembly. ... Read full Story
The Tennessee Supreme Court will hear an appeal in a case centered on a former worship pastor accused of abuse who filed a defamation lawsuit against the Southern Baptist Convention. ... Read full Story
Thousands filled ExCeL London to capacity on Saturday evening for the return of the God Loves You Tour, led by Rev. Franklin Graham, president and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan’s Purse. ... Read full Story
Elders at New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, announced Sunday that they asked their senior pastor, Brady Boyd, to resign after learning that he lied about his knowledge of Gateway Church founder Robert Morris’ alleged sexual abuse of Cindy Clemishire beginning when she was 12 in the 1980s. ... Read full Story
Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart remains hospitalized with no change in his condition since last week, when family found him unconscious after a severe heart attack. ... Read full Story
Nearly half of all Evangelical pastors in the United States hold a second job outside their church ministry, according to a study by Lifeway Research. ... Read full Story
Events that occurred this week in Christian history include the establishment of the Anglican Church in North America, the Knights Hospitaller losing Fort St. Elmo, and the death of Father Francis Duffy. ... Read full Story
Bishop T.D. Jakes joined Oprah Winfrey in distancing himself from embattled rapper Sean Combs, known by his stage name, Diddy, as he revealed Thursday that he only spent about 30 minutes at a party for the music executive. ... Read full Story
The Rev. Skip Heitzig, senior pastor of Calvary Church in Albuquerque, New Mexico, delivered a passionate call for Spirit-empowered evangelism during the European Congress on Evangelism in Berlin. ... Read full Story
Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, has announced it will cut staff in the coming weeks due to “a significant drop” in tithes and general giving as it continues to reel in the aftermath of founder Robert Morris’ child sex abuse scandal. ... Read full Story
Pastor and bestselling author John Piper recently explained that while Christians face real human conflict, such struggles are ultimately rooted in spiritual warfare, and emphasized the urgency of responding with Gospel-centered resilience and the armor of God. ... Read full Story
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for June 30, 2025 is:
expunge \ik-SPUNJ\ verb
To expunge something is to remove it completely, whether by obliterating it, striking it out, or marking it for deletion. Expunge is most commonly applied in cases in which documentation of something is removed from an official record.
// Due to an error, the charges were expunged from their record.
“... Bland et al. found that an offer to expunge a criminal record after participation in a rehabilitation program reduced crime as well as the measure of harm. This appears to indicate that motivation drives rehabilitation—which is important to consider in judging character in the present.” — Wendy L. Patrick, Psychology Today, 1 Dec. 2024
Did you know?
In medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, a series of dots was used to mark mistakes or to label material that should be deleted from a text, and those deletion dots—known as puncta delentia—can help you remember the history of expunge. Puncta comes from the Latin verb pungere, which can be translated as “to prick or sting” (and you can imagine that a scribe may have felt stung when their mistakes were so punctuated in a manuscript). Pungere is also an ancestor of expunge, as well as a parent of other dotted, pointed, or stinging terms such as punctuate, compunction, poignant, puncture, and pungent.