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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Ben Watson Praises Father of Man Killed in Milwaukee Police Shooting for Saying He Was Bad Role Model for Son
Christian NFL player Benjamin Watson is praising the father of slain 23-year-old African-American Sylville Smith for accepting some of the blame for his son being shot and killed by a Milwaukee Police officer last weekend.
Louisiana Flood Strips Evangelical Political Leader of Everything; Family Evacuated in Canoe, Living in Motorhome
As thousands of homes have been impacted by the torrential rainfall this weekend in Louisiana and Mississippi, leading social conservative activist Tony Perkins has shared his own story of how he and his family were forced to evacuate their home with over 10 feet of water sitting in their way.
College Football Team on Netflix Series 'Last Chance U' Pressured to Stop Bible Study and Prayer
One of America's largest secular legal organizations is pressuring a Mississippi college football coach to put an end to the team's tradition of praying before and after each practice.
'No Scientific Basis' for Children to Think They Are Transgender, Born in Wrong Body, Pediatricians Say
There is "no scientific basis" for transgender individuals to believe that they are trapped in the wrong body, the American College of Pediatricians argued in a recently released report addressing gender dysphoria in children.
ISIS Boils 6 Men Alive in Vats of Tar After Sharia Court Orders Death Sentence
The Islamic State terrorist group has displayed yet another one of its gruesome methods of public execution, killing six men in Iraq accused of collaborating with the U.S.-led coalition and Kurdish forces by boiling them to death in vats of tar.
How Should Christian Parents Respond to After School Satan Clubs?
Family Research Council's Travis Weber is advising parents, teachers and school administrators not to fall into the trap that The Satanic Temple group is setting by launching its "After School Satan Club."
Alaska Assembly Meeting Begins With Prayer to Lucifer: 'Hail Satan'
A Satanic invocation kicked off a local assembly meeting in an Alaskan borough last week, sparking debate about whether the assembly should do away with its tradition of opening meetings with prayer.
More Christian Refugees Resettled to US in Last Decade Than Any Other Religion
The United States government has resettled more Christian refugees in the last decade than refugees of other religions, even though the nation continues to resettle fewer Syrian Christians than Syrian Muslims.
Alabama University Gives Men Access to Girls' Bathrooms to Comply With Obama's Transgender Rules
The University of South Alabama said it will start allowing men who identify as female to go into girls' bathrooms and changing facilities this semester, even though the state's attorney general is urging schools to ignore the Obama administration's transgender bathroom directive.
8 Children Beaten, Rejected by Parents as 'Infidels' in Uganda for Converting to Christianity
Eight children from a village in Uganda were beaten by their Muslim families and cast away as "infidels" after giving their lives to Jesus Christ.