Around half of Protestant churches in the United States have experienced growth in worship service attendance since the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recent study. A report by Lifeway Research published Tuesday found that 52% of surveyed Protestant congregations saw their worship attendance grow by at least 4% over the past two years.
Every culture and community has unique ways of expressing the connection between God and a creative life. When cultures intersect and collaborate there is an opportunity to enhance each other's reality with faith and creativity expanding our mutual understanding of the world. We need to lean into the power of difference to create a better world.
This opinion highlights insights from Dr. David Wang's work with leaders. His findings point to what he calls intercultural competence, the ability to appreciate, understand, and respect another person's perspective. Read on and learn three principles to enhance your relationships as a leader.
The US National Prayer Breakfast is a tradition in Washington, D.C. the first Thursday of every year. This year participants from all over the world were encouraged by the call for a revival of religious fervor. It is good and right to pray for our leaders and this opinion provide sound biblical guidance.
As the Church matures around the world, new indigenous expressions are emerging different from Anglo-European doctrinal assumptions. The gospel always incarnates in the lives, ethnicities, and places of its followers, like new wine requiring new wineskins.
President Donald Trump delivered an address to a joint session of the United States Congress in the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives Tuesday, a month and a half after he took office as the 47th president of the United States.
Christian apologist and globally renowned U.S. physician-geneticist Francis Collins has announced his retirement from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which he led as director for 12 years before returning to laboratory work. Collins, 74, served as the 16th NIH director from Aug. 17, 2009, until Dec. 19, 2021, before stepping down to work in a laboratory at the National Human Genome Research Institute, part of the NIH.
No further changes will be made to the Seoul Statement that came out of the Fourth Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization, held from Sep. 22-29, 2024, in Seoul, Korea, the Lausanne Movement’s leadership announced on a conference call with some 200 Congress participants on Wednesday (Feb. 26). The statement’s unexpected publication on the first day of the event and last-minute edits to sections related to homosexuality triggered controversy among participants who felt they did not have any opp
Christianity in the U.S. is no longer in decline, according to the latest Religious Landscape Study (RLS) conducted by Pew Research. The study, which surveyed 36,908 American adults, was cited by Lifeway Research. Called the “largest study of religious identification and practice in America” by Lifeway Research, the data shows stability in the number of Americans identifying as Christians.
The National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) Board of Directors approved nine formal resolutions on “Christian communications, family-first media principles, and global peace and security” at the NRB 2025 International Christian Media Convention on Tuesday, Feb. 25.
Ending the war in Ukraine must not come at the expense of true justice, particularly for the 400,000 Ukrainian children forcibly taken to Russia, Mission Eurasia (ME) emphasized in a statement issued on Feb. 26, 2025, on behalf of Ukrainian church and ministry leaders.
For a man who spent his better part of his childhood in an orphanage in Sierra Leone, it would be safe to assume that Emmanuel Mohamed Nabieu, fondly known as Nabs, would be a passionate advocate of orphanages. But from his decade-long experience in a children’s care centre and now as Director of the same center where he grew up in, Nabs believes there is a better and more sustainable model of supporting vulnerable children.
