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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Jan 18, 2016
Episcopal Church 'Deserves' to Be Suspended by Anglicans Over Gay Marriage, Franklin Graham Says
Leading evangelist Franklin Graham praised the Anglican Communion's decision last Thursday to suspend the entire U.S. Episcopal Church over its embrace of same-sex marriage, calling it a "major scolding they deserve."
Jan 18, 2016
So. Baptist IMB Closes Richmond Office in 2-Phase Plan to Balance Budget by 2017
The Southern Baptist Convention's International Missions Board has announced that it will close its communications center in Virginia and lay off as many as 30 employees as the entity moves forward with its two-phase organizational reset in an attempt to balance its budget by the end of 2017.
Jan 18, 2016
800 Wheaton College Grads Threaten to Stop Financial Support If 'Same God' Prof. Isn't Reinstated
A group of over 800 Wheaton College alumni are threatening to withdraw their financial support for the Evangelical institution until the school reinstates a tenured professor who was suspended last month for asserting that Christians and Muslims worship the same God.
Jan 16, 2016
WEA Inaugurates New Evangelical Center
The World Evangelical Alliance inaugurated its new eight-building WEA Evangelical Center located about an hour away from New York City on Friday evening.
Jan 14, 2016
Christian 'Genocide' Designation Won't Affect US Response to ISIS, Religious Freedom Amb. Says
The U.S. State Department's Ambassador at-Large for International Religious Freedom David Saperstein argued Wednesday that calling the ISIS' atrocities against Christians "genocide" would make no difference in how the Obama administration is responding to the crisis.
Jan 14, 2016
ISIS Burned Alive Militants Who Didn't Fight to the Death in Ramadi
The Islamic State terrorist organization in Iraq has burned alive some its fighters after the militants were defeated and pushed out of the key Iraqi town of Ramadi by security forces.
Jan 14, 2016
5 Threats Homeschool Families Face, According to Activist and Cruz Supporter
American Homeschooling families face at least five threats from the federal government that should cause homeschool parents and supporters to think hard about who they vote for in the 2016 presidential elections, according to a leading home schooling activist.
Jan 13, 2016
American Christian Missionary Arrested in North Korea on Spying Charges
A Korean-American man who says he has been detained as a prisoner in North Korea on espionage charges has been identified as a Christian missionary and a pastor who has worked in the U.S. and China.
Jan 13, 2016
2015 Deadliest Year for Christians Worldwide, Open Doors' World Watch List Finds
The Christian persecution watchdog group Open Doors has released its annual list of countries where Christians face the greatest persecution and found that attacks against believers has reached unprecedented levels worldwide.
Jan 13, 2016
Franklin Graham: 'State of the Union Can't Be Fixed Unless We Repent of Our Sins'
Just hours before President Barack Obama delivered his final State of the Union Address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, leading Evangelist Franklin Graham issued his own opinion on the state of affairs in the U.S.