Author: Steve Rabey

If you give a donation to most Colorado Springs-based Christian nonprofits, they will turn that donation into goods (such as Bibles) or services (such as evangelism or care for needy children). But donations to Touch of Love International will keep on giving, the nonprofit says. Touch of Love ministers through microloans. Donated funds are turned…

Steve Craig has always done school the way he says schooling started: in the home. He and his siblings were home-schooled, as are his seven children. And he’s been executive director of Christian Home Educators of Colorado (CHEC) since 2014, which enables him to spend his time telling other families what he’s found. “I want…

College can be corrosive to some students’ faith. Surveys say anywhere from 50% to 70% of freshmen participate less in religious activities on campus than they did while at home. That’s what happened to Colorado native David Langfeld when he started his studies at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. “I was falling away from…

Julie Loar was a Catholic college student serving families in Mexico when a near-death experience “blew apart” her world and inspired her to explore spiritual traditions that were once alien to her. “I felt like a different person,” says Loar, a writer and editor who leads tours to Egypt and works with small groups that…

Clarence Shuler says God’s creation of humans in varied hues demonstrates a divine endorsement of diversity — but not all of God’s followers agree. Now he’s providing Christian organizations with diversity training, something that could have helped him during his life of many firsts. In the 1970s, he was the first Black player and co-captain…

The Jewish festival of Purim, which starts Monday, is a joyful event that celebrates the Jews’ deliverance from a planned extermination in Persia about 2,500 years ago. The biblical book of Esther says Esther, a wife of the king who hid her Jewishness, alerted him. But this year’s celebration, which includes scripture readings, gifts, a…

In the 1960s, many young people went on quests that took them through drugs, sex, rock ‘n’ roll, and Eastern religions. Few churches knew how to minister to them. Some churches simply excluded them. But when countercultural youths showed up at a little church called Calvary Chapel in Costa Mesa, Calif., pastor Chuck Smith let…

Sharon Mumper’s missionary zeal, combined with her journalism degree and significant experience in writing, editing and publishing, led her to pursue a unique mission. While some groups build churches, schools or hospitals, her ministry helps Christian magazines in other countries. She launched Magazine Training International, or MTI, in Eastern Europe in 1989, helping a formerly…

North America’s 280 accredited Christian seminaries and theology schools enrolled 78,000 students this fall. Colorado’s four theology schools serve more than 1,600 of these students. Denver Seminary, the nation’s 16th largest graduate theology school, is a nondenominational evangelical institution. Founded in 1950, it has more than 900 students from more than 50 Christian denominations, including…