Samuel Smith
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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Atheist Group's Demand That Pastor-Led Student Program Be Banned Is Rejected by School District
An Indiana school district won't be ending a lunchtime leadership program led by pastors from a local church despite complaints from the nation's largest atheist legal group.
Joni Eareckson Tada: If Christians Don't Act, US Assisted Suicide Laws Could Become Like UK, Canada
Renowned evangelical author and disabilities advocate Joni Eareckson Tada is warning that the United States could one day become like Canada or more liberal European nations that promote physician-assisted suicide unless Christians push back against the trend.
Pastors Protest 6th Grade Assignment Claiming Christians, Muslims Worship 'Same God'
Concerned Christians have voiced their outrage over a homework assignment given to area students which claimed that Muslims, Christians and Jews all worship the same God.
Univ. of Iowa Ordered to Reinstate Christian Student Group Punished Over Policy on Homosexuality
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the University of Iowa must temporarily reinstate a Christian student group that was punished last fall because it denied a leadership position to a gay student who refused to accept the club's statement of faith opposing homosexuality.
Gen Z Is the Least Christian Generation in American History, Barna Finds
Teenagers today are the most non-Christian generation in American history as only four out of 100 teens hold a true biblical worldview and one out of every eight teens identify as non-heterosexual, a new survey released by one of the nation's leading evangelical polling firms has found.
Christian Churches 'Under Attack' Amid Turkey's Bombardment of Syrian Region
Christian churches in Syria are crying out for help and assistance amid deadly attacks by Turkish forces on Kurdish areas of the civil war ravaged nation.
Christian Dad Shares How Family Moved to Africa After Feds 'Sabotaged' Daughter's Adoption
A Christian father, who along with his wife and three children, moved to Africa in 2013 after the U.S. government refused to let them bring home their newly adopted daughter from Uganda, spoke Friday what it means to act on God's convictions despite not knowing exactly what The Lord is calling for.
Former Pro-Choice Atheist Tells Evangelicals for Life How God Transformed Her
Trillia Newbell, an author and director of community outreach for the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, shared her testimony Friday morning with a large group of evangelicals right before the start of the 2018 March for Life.
Dad Shares How Daughter With Tiny Brain, Inverted Nose Still Lives 5 Years After Being Told to Abort
A Tennessee dad opened up about the joy and struggles his family has faced five years after he and his wife chose to carry their precious daughter to term, though they were advised by doctors to induce labor at 20 weeks of pregnancy and "try again" because of a rare, debilitating brain disorder.
NFL Star Benjamin Watson Tells Planned Parenthood to Stop Quoting Martin Luther King Jr.
Baltimore Ravens tight end and pending free agent Benjamin Watson needed just two words to slam the nation's largest abortion provider for quoting the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., one of the most revered civil rights activists of the 1960s.