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  Minister to Homeless Says City Officials Denied Him a Permit for Church Worship A ministry founder in Ohio says city officials have denied him a permit to hold worship services in his ministry’s building because they fear the ministry will attract more homeless people. Tim Cox Sep 24, 2019
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  35 Million Christian Youths Will Leave Christianity by 2050, New Report Predicts A new report shows that some 35 million youths raised in Christian families will leave Christianity by the year 2050. Amanda Casanova Sep 24, 2019
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  How Does a Church Make the Poor Visible? This One Immortalized Them in a Fresco Poor people have often told pastor Brian Combs that the hardest thing about standing at highway intersections holding up a cardboard sign and begging for money is not watching the windows roll up or hearing... Yonat Shimron Sep 20, 2019
• Dallas Churches Vandalized, 'LIES' Graffitied on Steeple Six churches were vandalized in south Dallas this week with red graffiti paint spray-painted across the steeples and exterior walls, as reported by Fox News. Mikaela Mathews Sep 19, 2019
• Dallas Megachurch Hosts Mass Wedding for Cohabitating Couples to Honor Marriage Earlier this month, 24 couples held hands and committed to a lifetime of marriage in the fourth annual “Grand Wedding” at Dallas-based Concord Church, as reported by Christianity Today. Mikaela Mathews Sep 18, 2019
• Saving Pastors’ Lives: A Call to the Church to Help Those Struggling with Ideas of Suicide One of my all-time favorite quotes comes from Abraham Kuyper and was repeated over and over by Chuck Colson: “There’s not a single square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ,... John Stonestreet and Roberto Rivera Sep 18, 2019
• 5 Tips for Churches on How to Hold onto Millennials and GenZ A former colleague got in touch this week to ask me a question I’ve heard often since my book The Next Mormons was published earlier this year. He understands the problems we’re all facing with religious... Janna Riess Sep 17, 2019
• ‘You Let Her Die in Church’: How Obeying What We Don’t Understand Leads to Peace Cassie Griffin arrived at church on Wednesday night for a prayer rally and a concert. The fourteen-year-old was sitting on the second row with friends when a gunman entered the church and opened fire,... Jim Denison Sep 17, 2019
• Baptist Church Makes History, Calls Transgender Pastor An Ohio Baptist church this summer called a transgender pastor to lead its church, making it one of the few Baptist congregations in the United States to be led by a minister who has a gender identity... Michael Foust Sep 16, 2019
• Birmingham Church, 56 Years Later, to Recall Bombing with Messages of Love, Action Months before the annual observance of the bombing that rocked a congregation, a community and the nation, Sixteenth Street Baptist Church has been getting ready. Adelle M. Banks Sep 13, 2019
• Hopeful Signs for Change in Sudan Meet with Cautious Pessimism The appointment of a Christian woman to the council overseeing the transition to civilian rule in Sudan is a hopeful sign, but some persecution-weary Christians are less than optimistic about prospects for... Morning Star News Sudan Correspondent Sep 13, 2019
• Make Me a Match: Churches Can Reconnect Singles … and Society Despite our ever-greater mobility and even more efficient connectivity, sociologists continue to note that Americans struggle to form lasting, fulfilling relationships of all kinds, but especially marriages.... John Stonestreet and G. Shane Morris Sep 12, 2019