Author: Shalem John

WHEATON, Ill., November 19, 2025—The Christianity Today Board of Directors has unanimously elected Dr. Nicole Massie Martin as its next President and CEO during its annual fall meeting. Dr. Martin has more than 25 years of nonprofit, academic, ministry leadership, and church engagement experience. She has served at CT since 2023 as Chief Impact Officer and most recently Chief Operating Officer. With the help of the firm CarterBaldwin Executive Search, the CT Board of Directors chose Dr. Martin after an extensive five-month search that included a global pool of 130 candidates. The search committee unanimously recommended Dr. Martin to the…

Scripture repeatedly calls believers to care for the widow and the orphan. Yet as pews refill post-pandemic, one group remains strikingly absent: single mothers. Recent Barna research reveals that only one in four single moms attends church weekly, the steepest drop among women in recent years. The finding raises an uncomfortable question: Are churches truly heeding the biblical command to care for the vulnerable in their midst? When Joie Van Holstyn became a single mom of two boys through foster care and adoption in 2019, her church attendance quickly spiraled.  “It was really hard at first,” she said. “We had…

Birth: 14.02.1760 Death: 26.03.1831 Native Place: United States Place of Vision: United States Richard Allen was a slave who led his master to Christ and then became the founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. He was born into slavery and worked as a servant of a Delaware plantation owner. Although the other owners disapproved of their slaves attending the church, Allen was encouraged by his master to attend the local Methodist society. As his faith in Christ deepened, Allen could not help but demonstrate the positive effects of his devotion, which impressed his master and the other slave owners.…