Melissa Barnhart serves as Managing Editor for The Christian Post. She graduated from Liberty University with a bachelor of science degrees in government, religion and communications. Ms. Barnhart began her reporting career while still in college by working for a local newspaper outside Dallas, Texas, where she interviewed pastors, politicians, Olympic gold medalist Jennie Finch, a U.S. women's softball player in the 2004 Olympic Games, and former President of Mexico Vicente Fox. She joined The Christian Post in 2013.
Women and girls are easy targets for religious persecution, and their plight is often compounded when shunned by their own church communities after escaping their captors, say experts on gender-based persecution.
World-renowned pastor and prolific church planter Rick Warren says if Christians worldwide are going to complete the Great Commission by the 2,000th anniversary of the Church, it's going to take radical giving, collaboration and a plan.
Kevin Brown, president of Asbury University, says his prayer is that in five to 10 years, Christians will look back on the Asbury revival as a tremor that preceded a global Christian awakening.
Pastor Stephen Tong preached a fiery and convicting sermon at the World Evangelical Alliance’s General Assembly, rebuking hypocritical pastors who indulge in sin yet step up to the pulpit on Sundays to preach God’s holy word.
In an impassioned call for Christian leaders to emulate Jesus’ model for ministry, renowned evangelist and church planter Rick Warren listed five things faithful believers must do to win the world for Christ — and it includes “one of the most overlooked verses in the Bible.”
In an impassioned speech two days after her husband was assassinated on a college campus in Utah, Erika Kirk vowed to carry on her husband’s mission at Turning Point USA and to spread the Gospel and “make Heaven crowded.”
Christian pastors and Evangelical leaders are joining the chorus of Americans nationwide who are mourning the loss of Christian social activist Charlie Kirk.
Educator Ananthi Jebasingh received the Colson Center’s Wilberforce Award, recognizing the impact she has made over the decades teaching children in India's slums through her Good Samaritan School.
Republican Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina spoke of the strength she’s derived from God and Scripture as she used her nearly 60 minutes to speak on the U.S. House floor Monday night to expose the names of men she claims raped and victimized her and numerous other women.
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk implored Americans to get everyone they know registered to vote for former President Donald Trump, warning that if they don’t, “this will be the last election.”
