Emily Belz

1 week ago | christianitytoday.com | Emily Belz

The pop artist is part of an unusual Nashville history surrounding the HIV/AIDS treatment program. The queen of Christian pop is weighing in on proposed cuts to the successful HIV/AIDS program the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). On Wednesday night during a concert at a Nashville-area church, she made a phone call to Republican senator Bill Hagerty's office on speakerphone. She left a voicemail. "Hi, Senator Hagerty, hi, this is Amy Grant," she said.

2 weeks ago | christianitytoday.com | Emily Belz

The denomination had ordered agencies to determine the "appropriateness" of the book for Christians. The Presbyterian Church in America's bookstore wouldn't recommend or sell Jesus Calling, but the denomination doesn't need to do anything about the best-selling devotional, according to the results of an investigation submitted to the General Assembly.

1 month ago | christianitytoday.com | Emily Belz

The deadlocked court affirmed the Oklahoma Supreme Court's finding that the Catholic school would be functioning as a government entity. Celal Gunes / Anadolu via Getty ImagesIn one of the most anticipated rulings of its term, a divided Supreme Court blocked Oklahoma from launching the nation's first religious charter school. The justices deadlocked 4-4 over the case, resulting in them affirming the lower court ruling in the case.

1 month ago | christianitytoday.com | Emily Belz

With clinics shutting down and orphanages filling up, Christian health workers worry about worsening health outcomes in Africa. A community health worker in Uganda, after losing his US-funded salary in the foreign aid cuts, continued doing his health-outreach work as a volunteer-and in a rural community he found a very sick child with HIV who had stopped receiving the antiretroviral treatment that keeps him alive and prevents potentially fatal infections from treatable diseases.

2 months ago | christianitytoday.com | Emily Belz

The Nashville program joins a growing movement to teach future doctors a "whole person" model of health care. For the first time in more than 40 years, a new Christian medical school granting MD degrees has opened its doors in the US. A class of 50 students is finishing its inaugural school year now at Belmont University's Thomas F. Frist, Jr. College of Medicine. That's 50 future doctors who could be reinforcements for a workforce facing severe shortages.