Author: Steve Rabey

During its first few decades, Compassion International found new supporters through ads in Christian magazines and commercials on religious radio programs. During the last few decades, Christian concerts were a major means of reaching new child sponsors. Now, with fewer Americans donating to charity, the 70-year-old, $1 billion ministry is working to find new ways…

For decades, more than two-thirds of Americans belonged to a church. But by 2020, less than half were church members, an unprecedented low since Gallup started keeping track in 1937. Americans’ trust in churches and pastors has fallen, too. Gallup reported that in 2009, 52% of adults had confidence in the church as an institution.…

Can Christians lose their salvation? Do animals go to heaven? And what does the Bible teach about female pastors? Homosexuality? Tattoos? Masturbation? Interracial marriage? And white supremacy? Millions of people who want to know the answers to these and nearly 700,000 other theological questions turn to a website, GotQuestions.org, that’s operated by a Colorado Springs…

Richard Risely took his first photos 75 years ago. He got more serious about crafting photographic prints after his wife died nine years ago, and six years ago he began submitting his works for an annual local exhibit called “How Do You See God?” that opens this week. His entry this year is “America the…

If it’s summer, it’s Vacation Bible School season, as hundreds of volunteers at dozens of churches in Colorado Springs open the doors to thousands of children for weeklong gatherings created to combine fun activities and scripture lessons. This year’s season — the first for most churches since COVID-19 canceled many programs the past two years…

The Holy Spirit’s arrival on the day of Pentecost was a major multicultural event. The New Testament book of Acts says the diverse crowd of people visiting Jerusalem from many lands heard and understood the same Gospel message. “Parthians, Medes and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt…

In 1966, five men started discussing and praying about the need for a local Christian school. Five years later, their dream was realized as Colorado Springs Christian School opened in Temple Baptist Church, which would later become Pulpit Rock church. Tuition was $40 per month. Now celebrating its 50th anniversary, CSCS has seen more than…

Centuries after Isaiah, Jeremiah, Malachi and other Old Testament prophets passed away, another prophet named Mormon reportedly lived in the ancient Americas, compiling a book on gold plates called The Book of Mormon. In the 1820s, Joseph Smith of New York claimed he found the book, which described how all Christian “churches strayed from Jesus…

In a normal week, the 655 people who work with Greater Europe Mission would be engaged in evangelism, discipleship, biblical education, church planting. Only 10 of those workers would be ministering to refugees. But nothing has been normal since Russia invaded Ukraine, and now GEM, which has its U.S. office in Monument, is pivoting to…