September 29, 2026
From filmstrips in Africa to social media reaching millions, Good News Productions, International marks 50 years of using culturally relevant media and changing technology to share the gospel around the world.
November 11, 2025
Good News Productions, International (GNPI) has reached the half-century mark for using media and technology to share the gospel around the world and empower other Christians to do the same.
August 25, 2023
Mission15—Good News Productions International’s initiative to share 1 billion gospel invitations around the world over the next seven years—grew out of a day of prayer and fasting late in 2022. . . .
February 8, 2022
Dr. James B. North, 81, longtime professor of church history at Cincinnati Christian University, frequent lecturer on church history, and a man who wrote extensively on the history of Christian churches and churches of Christ in America, died on Monday after battling cancer.
July 25, 2014
By Ziden Nutt (From our series “The Best or Worst Advice I”ve Ever Received.”) The date: October 24, 1952. The place: East Gary, Indiana. I was sitting in the front row, in the third chair from the right side. A very frail gentleman stood on the platform speaking. He had just spent 15 months in a Communist China prison, from March 22, 1951, to June 20, 1952. Among the torture methods used was a giant nutcracker, large enough to apply pressure to a human head. He said the only thing to help him keep his sanity was quoting Scripture over
By Mark A. Taylor Some of the best advice I ever received was from Roy Lawson, longtime member of Standard Publishing”s Publishing Committee, and one of this magazine”s original contributing editors. “Emphasize people,” he told me when I asked for ways to make CHRISTIAN STANDARD more effective. “Highlight what people are doing. Promote their ministries and their accomplishments.” Through the years I”ve followed that advice in more ways than one, including a series of special posts you”ll be seeing at this site starting today, all of them from our July print edition”s central feature, “The Best (or Worst!) Advice I
By Mark A. Taylor Some of the best advice I ever received was from Roy Lawson, longtime member of Standard Publishing”s Publishing Committee, and one of this magazine”s original contributing editors. “Emphasize people,” he told me when I asked for ways to make CHRISTIAN STANDARD more effective. “Highlight what people are doing. Promote their ministries and their accomplishments.” Through the years I”ve followed that advice in more ways than one, none of them more engaging than the major feature of this month”s issue. I love our “Best (or Worst!) Advice” pieces for several reasons. First, of course, is the advice
The Eubanks Institute for Missions at Johnson Bible College hosted a two-day gathering on the role of forwarding agents in mission work, with sessions on finances, education, publishing, and more.
December 31, 2010
Seven men shaped by Black Oak Church of Christ returned to thank the small Indiana congregation that baptized them and helped inspire decades of ministry influence around the world.
February 1, 2009
The 61st National Missionary Convention gathered nearly 4,500 people in Tulsa for worship, workshops, exhibits, mission stories, and renewed commitment to cross-cultural service.
February 1, 2009
Ziden Nutt reflects on the National Missionary Convention, the “honeymoon express,” and decades of relationships, commitments, and mission service shaped through those gatherings.
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