Author: Shalem John

Former Newsboys frontman Michael Tait confessed Tuesday to abusing drugs and alcohol and touching men “in an unwanted sensual way.”  The statement comes days after multiple men came forward with allegations that Tait sexually assaulted them while touring with the chart-topping Christian band. Tait said he would dispute some of the details reported by The Roys Report on June 4, but the accusations—which include accounts of cocaine, nudity, and sexual assault—“are largely true.” “I am ashamed of my life choices and actions, and make no excuse for them,” Tait wrote in a statement posted on Instagram. “I will simply call…

Ask Southern Baptists their favorite part of their annual meeting, and nearly everyone will tell you: the missionary-sending presentation. Couples and individuals getting ready to serve abroad introduce themselves from the convention stage, with those bound for sensitive countries hidden in silhouette, and the crowd prays for them. They represent what leaders see as the heart of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC): autonomous churches coming together to fund missions and ministry work as they have since the launch of the SBC’s Cooperative Program 100 years ago. “The genius of the Cooperative Program has proved itself over a century,” said Albert…

Doing her best Billy Graham impersonation—hand raised, mouth open as if in mid-proclamation of the gospel—a 20-something woman posed at an Instagram-ready podium tucked away in a side vestibule at the European Congress on Evangelism. Her friend snapped photos that made it look as if she were addressing the massive crowd at one of Graham’s historic meetings. But Ophélie Prisca-Diane, who is currently serving with Youth With A Mission in Paris, told Christianity Today she doesn’t think evangelism is just a thing of the past. In fact, she sees it as a thing of the future. She expects Christians her…