• Chinese Pastor Reflects on Charlie Kirk’s Death: Church Must Confront “Today’s Issues”

  The news of Charlie Kirk’s death not only shocked leaders in the English-speaking evangelical world but also affected Chinese pastors in North America. In a memorial article, one pastor described Charlie Kirk as someone who “awakened the church, Christians, and even society as a whole.”

  

• “Sinners”: Gospel distorted by ethnicity and regionalism

  In the latest installment of his Bricolage in the Movie series, Dr. Ukjoo Park offers a cultural-theological reading of Sinners, a supernatural drama directed by Ryan Coogler. Set in the racially segregated 1930s Mississippi Delta, the film follows two Black brothers who operate a juke joint while battling vampires—and racism.

  

• Bible scholar suggests ‘Mark of the Beast’ may not be 666 after all

  Canadian Bible scholar Wes Huff is encouraging Christians to reexamine a widely held assumption about Revelation 13:18—that the number of the beast is definitively 666. According to Huff, some of the earliest and most respected manuscripts suggest a different number altogether: 616.

  

• A church in South Korea’s Guri City suffers fire damage, no injuries reported

  A church in Guri City, near Seoul, South Korea, experienced a fire on July 3 that caused damage to parts of its main sanctuary building

  

• Trump Faith Office cites Psalm 34:18 as Texans pray amid deadly flooding

  Central Texas is grappling with devastating flooding that has claimed at least 82 lives and left more than 40 people missing.