Faith News Network

Vice President Mike Pence’s speech at the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting Wednesday has left some Christians unhappy, especially the newly chosen leader of the SBC.

Save the Storks, a pro-life organization partnering with pregnancy resource centers to empower women with choice during pregnancy, has captured the imagination of millions with its innovative fleet of luxury mobile medical vehicles, known as Stork buses. To date, Save the Storks has helped build 43 buses, with over 4,000 women choosing to keep their babies.

Heather Lindsey, of Atlanta, Georgia, has been ministering to people on social media for nearly 15 years.

With more than 500,000 Facebook fans and nearly 300,000 Instagram followers, she often shares funny stories from her life as a pastor’s wife and mother of two, with another little one on the way.

Within the pages of Christine Chang and Belva Chang’s new book, Living with Ambiguity, ($20.99, paperback, 9781545616406; $9.99, e-book, 9781545621271) readers will find a heartfelt account of Belva Chang’s experiences as a freelance missionary in Gonaives. Belva’s granddaughter also went to Haiti for a brief period, and she compares her experiences to her grandmother’s.

Worldwide Marriage Encounter (WWME), the original faith based marriage enrichment program in the United States, announced today the national winners of the 2018 Longest Married Couple Project. They are Mota and Avanelle Young of Bowling Green, KY. The Youngs have been married 81 years as of April 14th, 2017.

Thanksgiving is not a spiritual exercise. It’s not just a commandment to be obeyed or a duty and obligation. It is not a worldly holiday tradition or religious activity, but it is the outflow of a heart that is filled with God’s goodness and has learned to see God in every circumstance of life.

Busy parents looking for help with nourishing their children’s spiritual development can now find it in an innovative, fun-filled “Sunday School in a box” collection delivered direct to their home.

A teaser trailer for THE STAR—the anticipated new film from Sony Pictures Animation—released online this morning, via USA Today. The teaser trailer will also appear in theaters Friday, July 28, with THE EMOJI MOVIE, giving a first look at the faith-and-family film telling the story of the first Christmas through the eyes of the animals who witnessed it.

A Michigan woman says a little known faith-film, Alison’s Choice, prompted her son’s girlfriend to forego an abortion. Messaging producer/director Bruce Marchiano through Facebook, she writes, “I was there for her but it was your movie that saved her baby’s life.” As a result, a baby girl was born. (Both the grandmother and the baby’s mother have agreed to communicate with the media on condition of anonymity).

Over 130 million children in the world don’t have a loving and secure place to call their own. In “Why Did You Choose Me?” (Ambassador International; November 12, 2017, $17.99) Katie Cruice Smith strives to answer the question of “why” in a way that young children can understand.