Church Leaders

3 days ago | churchleaders.com | Jesse Jackson

On Tuesday, May 13, Founders Ministries released a statement saying that its president, Tom Ascol, was a target of former G3 Ministries’ president Dr. Josh Buice’s “wicked words.”In addition to his role at Founders Ministries, Ascol is the senior pastor of Grace Baptist Church in Cape Coral, Florida, and a founding faculty member of Founders Seminary.

3 days ago | churchleaders.com | Jesse Jackson

“American Idol” host Ryan Seacrest announced that Breanna Nix is one of top three finalists during Monday night’s (May 12) Season 23 live show on ABC. Following her performances of “This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)” and “You’ll Be in My Heart,” the 25-year-old stay-at-home mom received enough fan votes to join “American Idol” contestants Jamal Roberts and John Foster to compete in Sunday’s finale. “I seriously have no words…I’m just so overwhelmed with gratitude 😭😭,” Nix posted on Instagram.

3 days ago | churchleaders.com | Jack Jenkins

(RNS) — In a striking move that ends a nearly four-decades-old relationship between the federal government and the Episcopal Church, the denomination announced on Monday (May 12) that it is terminating its partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa who have been classified as refugees by President Donald Trump’s administration. In a letter sent to members of the church, the Most Rev. Sean W.

4 days ago | churchleaders.com | Jesse Jackson

Dr. Josh Buice, pastor of Pray’s Mill Baptist Church (PMBC) and founder of G3 Ministries, resigned as president of G3 Ministries after PMBC elders discovered Buice had been using multiple anonymous social media accounts to speak ill of Christian leaders, both publicly and privately. In addition to his resignation, Buice has also been deemed “presently disqualified from serving as an elder” at PMBC. Buice is listed on the church’s website as one of six elders at PMBC.

1 week ago | churchleaders.com | Jessica L Lea

In a conversation that covered the occult, AI singularity, the New Atheists, and philosophical arguments for the existence of God, Wikipedia cofounder Dr. Larry Sanger shared with Christian hip hop artist Lecrae how Sanger went from being a “methodological skeptic” to a believer in orthodox Christianity. “In 2020 I read the Bible through for the first time, all the way through for good understanding, which I’d never done before,” Sanger told Lecrae in a conversation published Thursday, May 8.