Samuel Smith
Deputy Managing Editor
Samuel Smith serves as Deputy Managing Editor for The Christian Post. He began working for CP in 2014 as a staff reporter. Before joining CP, Smith covered Maryland state politics as well as college and high school athletics for various news outlets. He graduated with a journalism degree from Towson University.
His areas of interest include human rights, politics and sports. Smith also serves on the international missions team of his local church. He lives in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area with his family.
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Christian student suspended for posting Bible verses in response to LGBT posters
A Christian high school student in Ohio was suspended last week after she posted Bible verses on lockers and walls after she saw LGBT pride flags and posters decorating the halls of her school.
Planned Parenthood has ‘no right to perform abortions,' Ohio can defund: 6th Circuit
The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned an earlier ruling against an Ohio law that strips Planned Parenthood and other abortion clinics public health funding.
Egypt legalizes 156 church buildings; about 3,000 more awaiting approval
The Egyptian government legalized 156 more Christian churches and church-affiliated buildings last Tuesday as it continues to slowly make its way through thousands of applications from churches seeking legal recognition.
Ex-SBTS prof. accused of 'grooming' former student in decade-long abusive relationship
A former Southern Baptist Theological Seminary student has come forward to detail how former professor David Sills, who resigned last year, engaged in an inappropriate and "abusive" sexual relationship with her that lasted for over a decade.
In Hong Kong, top US religious freedom official says Chinese gov't is 'at war with faith'
The Trump administration’s top religious freedom official, Sam Brownback, issued pointed words about the Chinese government’s religious freedom abuses against Christians, Muslims, and Tibetan Buddhists during his trip there over the weekend.
Al Mohler explains why he didn’t sign John MacArthur’s anti-social justice statement
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President Al Mohler explained why he did not sign last summer’s John MacArthur-led statement condemning evangelicals' embrace of social justice as dangerous to the Gospel.
Michael Curry, church leaders call for national fast amid threat of ‘constitutional crisis’
Episcopal Church leader Michael Curry, Sojourners founder Jim Wallis and a group of left-leaning church leaders are calling for Christians nationwide to pray, fast, and apply Lenten spiritual practices to prepare for a "constitutional crisis."
Family continues ministry of missionary killed in Africa 3 years ago; 1,000 kids helped
It’s been over three years since American missionary Michael Riddering was among dozens of Christians killed by al-Qaeda in West Africa. But today, his ministry to the orphaned and poor there continues with the help of his family.
NewSpring Church had 4 volunteers charged with sex crimes against minors
Amid lawsuits concerning oversight of a daycare volunteer caught sexually abusing children, at least three other men who volunteered at NewSpring Church in South Carolina in the past have been accused of sexual misconduct with minors.
South African court rules Dutch Reformed Church’s gay marriage ban is unconstitutional
A court in South Africa ruled Friday that the Dutch Reformed Church’s rules against same-sex marriage are “unlawful and invalid.”
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