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Hillsong founder Brian Houston's daughter and son-in-law have announced plans to launch a new church in Sydney, Australia.

A group of 36 North Carolina-based United Methodist churches are expected to depart the denomination come November.

A church in Joliet, Illinois, was ordered to return nearly $800,000 of donations following an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) into a donor for fraudulent practices.

A new report from the Hartford Institute for Religion Research has found that giving is up at churches, but clergy dissatisfaction is still rising. The report came from a five-year study of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on U.S. churches.

A pastor from Green Bay, Wisconsin, has pleaded guilty to the attempted sexual exploitation of a minor he met on a mission trip in South America.

While walking her dog one morning in 2019, author and Raised to Stay ministry founder Natalie Runion felt God calling her to write a book. At the time, Runion was disillusioned with the church and questioning if she should stay.

A church in Massachusetts recently distributed more than 1,000 pairs of sneakers to low-income families in their community.

A subcommittee for the Florida Baptist Convention has concluded that none of its employees were responsible for a cyberattack resulting in the theft of $700,000 from the convention.

Though unusual as a long-term vocation, singleness is a biblical, God-ordained calling within which individuals show God’s image and serve Him and His Church with single-minded, self-sacrificial devotion. Scripture presents single people as whole persons who bear the image of God. Unlike other creation stories (like Plato’s Timaeus), Genesis 2 does not present Adam and Eve as half persons made whole by joining in marriage. Rather, Adam was created a complete person who, in his singleness, reveals God’s image. When God declares that Adam’s aloneness is “not good,” He does not thereby imply that Adam was half of a person. Marriage unites the man and the woman as “one flesh” precisely because both are full persons who bear the image of God. Because singles bear God’s image, they are capable of revealing His image in their singleness.

You cannot develop yourself spiritually to the degree God intends apart from others. This is why finding a community – and committing to it – is one of the most important spiritual steps you can take. Apart from life in community with other believers, you can’t practice the “one anothers” that lie at the heart of not only community, but spiritual growth.