By: Afshin Ziafat – billygraham.org – January 30, 2019 Disowned for Jesus: A Former Muslim’s Journey to Christ I was born in Houston and grew up in a devout Muslim home. My dad was very involved in the Iranian Muslim community. When I was 2 years old, my family moved to Iran, where my parents are from. But when I was 6, the Islamic...

By Emma Green – theatlantic.com – June 3, 2019 It is not weird for a Southern Baptist pastor to pray for the president of the United States. Yes, 81 percent of white evangelicals voted for Donald Trump, and have remained firmly supportive  of the president during his first two years in office. Yes, he has surrounded himself with a coterie of...

By: Ryan P. Burge – christianitytoday.com – May 24, 2019 By now, Southern Baptists recognize that their movement is in a decline that shows no signs of changing course. By their own measures, they’re not adding as many new believers to their flocks each year—the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) went from baptizing 321,000 in 2007 to 246,000 last year. Plus, despite adding...

By: Tom Gilson – stream.org – May 2, 2019 Surveys and pundits keep saying that people dislike evangelicals’ involvement in politics. Frequently it’s framed as a problem with our witness for Christ. Onlookers claim that more people would actually come to faith in Him if evangelicals would quit doing so much politicking. But I’ve got a question: Could someone explain to me...

By: Trais Fredschun – foxnews.com – April 23, 2019 The Easter Sunday attacks on churches, hotels and other sites across Sri Lanka  that killed over 300 people have now spurred some lawmakers to call for a full burqa ban. A bill was announced Tuesday on the Facebook page of UNP Parliamentarian Ashu Marasinghe to propose banning the burqa in Sri...

By: Ramesh Ponnuru – bloomberg.com – April 16, 2019 Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is one of the many candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination. But that’s not his only long-shot bid. He also wants to claim Christianity for contemporary progressive politics. “Christian faith is going to point you in a progressive direction,” he told USA Today. Even...

By: Douglas Groothuis, Ph.D. – douglasgroothuis.com – December 13, 2017 Jazz is a national treasure, but is no longer a common pastime. First rock and then hip hop eclipsed its popularity long ago. Historian Gerald Early claims that three things uniquely define America: the Constitution, baseball, and jazz. Yet the sale of jazz records accounts for only a small fraction the music...

By Hannah Sparks – nypost.com – April 3, 2019 It’s official: Americans are losing their religion. Data released by the General Social Survey — an ongoing study which has monitored US trends, attitudes and behaviors since 1972 — reveals that the number of Americans who identify as non-religious (aka “nones”) is now about equal to the number of Catholics (23 percent)...

By: Staff – cpcfoundation.com – April 2019 IN GOD WE TRUST is the Official Motto of the United States Are you OK with being told you can’t talk about God? There’s no need to be quiet any longer. “In God We Trust” is more than just our national motto – it’s our country’s foundation and part of our identity as...

By: Penna Dexter – pointofview.net – March 4, 2019 There’s yet another survey out showing that young people stop going to church after high school as they go off to college or start a job away from home. A  2017 LifeWay Research Survey shows 66 percent of Americans stopped attending church on a regular basis for at least a year...