Hobby Lobby, the popular arts and crafts store owned by outspoken Christians, today is under fire for reopening stores in states with stay-at-home orders in place. Yesterday, Business Insider reported that Hobby Lobby had quietly resumed business in Ohio, Wisconsin, Colorado, and North Carolina....

The lead pastor of Calvary Church of Naperville—a megachurch in the Chicago suburbs with an attendance around 6,000— this week told his staff to keep secret news that an assistant pastor had tested positive for COVID-19. Calvary Lead Pastor Martyn Sloan also instructed...

“We are extremely concerned,” said Anna Kurian, spokesperson for North Texas Food Bank. “There are actually 800,000 food-insecure people across north Texas. When a disaster happens, people turn to food banks for support.” As most U.S. states close schools and hospitals...

Samaritan’s Purse, today airlifted a 68-bed emergency field hospital to Milan, Italy, to help with the coronavirus outbreak there. A DC-8 owned by the  humanitarian aid organization left from North Carolina this morning, carrying 20 tons of medical equipment, including a respiratory care...

Disgraced Pastor James MacDonald last night announced that he’ll be returning to the pulpit on March 22 with an 8-part series at Calvary Chapel South Bay in Gardena, California. Calvary Senior Pastor Jeff Gill introduced his “dear brother” James MacDonald to the Calvary Chapel...

Nearly 10,000 people have signed a petition urging Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. to extend spring break and move classes online in response to the coronavirus pandemic. But Falwell, who suggests coronavirus is the “next attempt to get Trump,” remains defiant—and...

This article is provided by a special partnership with MinistryWatch.com. On the evening of Feb. 28, on the final night of the annual meeting of the National Religious Broadcasters at Nashville’s Opryland Hotel and Conference Center, one of religious broadcasting’s best-known figures,...

The upscale home of disgraced former pastor of Harvest Bible Chapel, James MacDonald, has just been privately listed for $1.9 million, according to recently obtained documents (listing below). Also, an Instagram comment by a person who appears to be the wife of a well-known Christian figure states...

Wheaton College today announced that it has rescinded Dr. Gilbert Bilezikian’s title of Professor Emeritus as the result of an investigation that revealed “additional  allegations of inappropriate and unprofessional misconduct.” In an email to faculty, staff, and...

A former senior leader at Willow Creek Community Church, and professed victim of Bill Hybels, yesterday shared on Facebook that an elder and attorney from her “former church” accused her of “lying or mis-remembering” when she reported the abuse to them. She said the two also...

After settling a lawsuit in the U.S. with a $37 million payout, Gospel for Asia (GFA) is now facing a similar class-action lawsuit in Canada seeking damages for the “misuse of donor funds in excess of $100 million.”   According to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), the...

In an email sent to his son with instructions to “forward at will,” Dr. Gilbert Bilezikian, co-founder of Willow Creek Community Church and professor of New Testament Emeritus at Wheaton College, is asserting that recently publicized allegations that he sexually abused a church member...

This post is written by Dan George, a former elder at Harvest Bible Chapel, who resigned last February and offered a public confession for what he had done. He has since become a man I am honored to call friend. And this post, which gives an incredible behind-the-scenes view to what really happened...

We live in a society that says what we do with our body doesn’t matter. The body is just an organism with no inherent value or worth. And it’s separate from your true person or true essence—your mind, emotions, and will. So, if you decide to use your body to participate...

This in-depth analysis is provided by a special partnership with MinistryWatch.com. In the 1970s and 80s, radio personality Casey Kasem would often punctuate his “American Top 40” program with the phrase: “And the hits just keep on coming.”  The expression became a...

The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Mark MacArthur—son of prominent author and pastor, John MacArthur, and a board member of his father’s radio ministry, Grace To You— with defrauding clients in a $16 million investment scheme. Also charged is MacArthur’s...

Eight years ago, prominent author and pastor, John MacArthur, strongly warned the Moody Bible Institute about its association with now-disgraced celebrity pastor, James MacDonald. This is according to email correspondence I recently obtained between MacArthur and Jerry Jenkins, author of the...

In an email to Acts 29 members over the weekend, embattled president, Matt Chandler, responded to questions stemming from the 2015 removal of five Acts 29 staff who complained about abuse by former Acts 29 CEO Steve Timmis. “I don’t want you to think that five employees complained about...

Five years ago, the U.S. staff of the church planting network, Acts 29, approached Acts 29 President Matt Chandler with a letter outlining concerns about “bullying” and “misuse of power and authority” by the group’s CEO, Steve Timmis. The staff expected to have their...

How should Christian media refer to people who identify as transgender? Should we refer to someone who’s biologically female, but identifies as male, as a man? And which pronouns should we use when referring to a trans man or woman? He? She? They? This issue recently surfaced when multiple...

About a year after being fired from Harvest Bible Chapel for conduct “harmful to the best interests of the church,” disgraced former pastor, James MacDonald, has launched a new online ministry and Home Church Network. MacDonald’s new website features dozens of video sermons...

In the mid-1980s, Ellen Maxwell (now Ellie Cowan) was a young and trusting student at the evangelical flagship, Wheaton College. So, when her professor, a well-respected author and near celebrity at the school, invited her to his office to collaborate on a writing project, she was flattered and...

UPADATE: I just received audio of Ortberg’s apology to his congregation on January 25. The audio is posted at the end of this article. Prominent author and pastor of Menlo Church, John Ortberg, has been disciplined by his church, after failing to protect minors from a church volunteer who...