
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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Dozens of Megachurch Pastors Meet With Mike Pence, White House Staff During Retreat
Dozens of Southern Baptist megachurch pastors and their wives met with Vice President Mike Pence and senior White House officials on Wednesday to cap off the annual Southern Baptist Convention MegaMetro retreat.

UK Scraps Proposal to Regulate Sunday Schools; Evangelicals Praise Move to Protect Religious Freedom
The United Kingdom government is no longer considering a plan to monitor church Sunday schools and other religious education institutions through its Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills.

Penn State Eliminates Homecoming 'Queen' and 'King' Titles to Be More 'Inclusive'
Penn State University has eliminated the titles of "Homecoming Queen" and "Homecoming King," in an effort to make its homecoming court gender-neutral and more inclusive.

36 ISIS Suspects Sentenced to Death for Egypt Church Bombings
Thirty-six militants accused of being part of Islamic State cells in Egypt have received preliminary death sentences for their alleged involvement in the bombing of three Egyptian churches, including the bombings of two churches on Palm Sunday 2017, and an attack on a police checkpoint.

Alabama Football Team Prays for Donald Trump at White House National Championship Ceremony
Members of the University of Alabama football team prayed with President Donald Trump on Tuesday afternoon as they made their ceremonial visit to the White House as winners of the 2017-2018 College Football Playoff National Championship.

Ryan Bomberger Shares How White Parents Defied 'Racist' Decree to Adopt 10 Racially Diverse Babies
Pro-life activist and Emmy Award-winning creative professional Ryan Bomberger opened up Monday about the personal sacrifice that his white adoptive mother and father had to make when they decided to bring him into their family as a 6-week-old biracial child conceived in rape.

Franklin Graham, Religious Freedom Advocates Urge Senate to Confirm Pompeo as Sec. of State
Leading evangelist Franklin Graham and 49 other religious freedom advocates are urging the U.S. Senate to quickly confirm President Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of state, Mike Pompeo.

Missionary Says God Used Year-Long Abduction to Plant Seeds That Helped Bring Captors to Christ
Over 15 years after she was rescued from a year-long abduction by Islamic terrorists in a Philippine jungle, Kansas missionary Gracia Burnham says her time in captivity showed her how faithless she was as she couldn't see the bigger plan that God had for her time of trial.

Voters Back Transgender Bathrooms for First Time in Anchorage
Voters in the largest city in Alaska have rejected a proposition that would have made it so people would have to use bathrooms and changing areas that correspond with their biological sex and would have allowed businesses and private organizations establish their own bathroom policies.

Banning Adoption Agencies That Don't Serve LGBT Couples Hurts Foster Kids, Expert Says
Efforts to "eliminate" faith-based adoption agencies that don't place children with same-sex couples are "not in the best interest" of kids stuck in the nation's foster care systems, Chuck Johnson, president of the nonpartisan National Council for Adoption, warned Monday.



















