New webinar series highlights the impact of local Christian leaders across the globe
Sydney, Australia Nancy Njagi knows a thing or two about how best to help her fellow Kenyans. She’s spent 20 years on the front lines of community development, establishing grassroots programs for churches in slum areas and sharing her insights with other African leaders. While completing her PhD in development studies from St Paul’s University […]
Sight-Seeing: Who does God really bless?
NILS VON KALM looks at the idea of ‘blessing’ and who Jesus was referring to in the Beatitudes…
The Interview: Amy Kenny, author of ‘My Body Is Not a Prayer Request’
KATHRYN POST, of Religion News Service, speaks to Amy Kenny, author of My Body Is Not A Prayer Request’, who says her body, too, is made in the image of the Divine and isn’t anything to be ashamed of…
What is Christianity about?
Sometimes Christianity is sold as a ‘blessing train’ – “get on board and everything will be grand”. PICTURE: James/Unsplash That’s not the Christianity I know. Christianity for me makes sense of the pain, suffering – yet joy and love – in the world. I’ve come to understand that Christianity is the permission and ability to […]
Frederick CK Price, US televangelist who built LA’s FaithDome, dies from COVID-19
RNS Rev Frederick KC “Fred” Price, a prominent Los Angeles pastor who build one of the largest church buildings in the US, has died at 89. “Our Husband, Father & your Apostle has gone to be w/ the Lord this evening,” the Price family said in a statement posted on social media. “We accept his decision to […]
ESSAY: PROSPERITY GOSPEL’S FALSE PROMISES AREN’T ALWAYS ABOUT MONEY
US Baptist pastor and author ALAN CROSS, in an article first published on Religion News Service, looks at different aspects of the so-called ‘prosperity gospel’…
Is televangelist Benny Hinn renouncing the ‘prosperity gospel’?
RNS Prominent televangelist Benny Hinn has captured headlines over the past week for seemingly renouncing the prosperity gospel on which he built his ministry. “I’m sorry to say that prosperity has gone a little crazy, and I’m correcting my own theology,” Hinn said in a recent “Your LoveWorld” broadcast shared on 2nd September on the […]
THE INTERVIEW: KATE BOWLER ON WHAT LIVING WITH A DEATH SENTENCE CAN TEACH US ALL ABOUT LIFE
Kate Bowler is a wife, mother and historian who was recently diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. Her new book, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I’ve Loved, is a heart-breaking and hilarious memoir about enduring and responding to tragedy. She speaks with JONATHAN MERRITT, of Religion News Service…