Welcome to this edition of the Faithfully Magazine Newsletter. Here's what's ahead:
Honoring the legacy of Dr. John M. Perkins (1930–2026)
Holy Land Christians impacted by escalating Iran conflict
Abortion leads to attempted murder charge in Georgia, and more…
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Dear Reader ✍🏾…
We’ve lost a giant of the faith, Dr. John M. Perkins, whose life's work in community development and racial reconciliation defined "lived theology" for generations. Perkins died March 13, 2026, surrounded by family. He was 95. His Homegoing Celebration is today, at New Horizon Church International. You can check their YouTube page to catch the livestream, beginning at 11 a.m. ET. You can also watch a replay of the wake here.
👀 Quotable & Notable
“You can’t do ministry TO people; you have to do it WITH people.” — Dive into our conversation with Dr. Perkins on the true meaning of community development and justice in this exclusive conversation, previously unpublished on the web.
In The News
One of Jerusalem’s Holiest Sites Shutdown: For the first time in generations, the heavy iron doors of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre remain bolted shut as Holy Week approaches, marking a chilling turning point for the indigenous Christian population of the Holy Land. Israeli forces say it’s due to security reasons amid the escalating Iran war, but Palestinian Christians ask whose lives are being protected and at what cost to their cultural and religious heritage? Read about it here…
Vet Charged With Attempted Murder Under Georgia Abortion Law: A 31-year-old U.S. Army veteran has been charged with attempted murder, the first time that a mother has been charged under Georgia’s restrictive abortion law — the Living Infants Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act that makes abortion illegal after cardiac activity is detected in a fetus. Read about it here…
Headlines Around the Web
Did Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu slam Jesus at a recent press conference?
Tech CEO Peter Thiel has now taken his secret antichrist lectures to Rome
A pastor walked from Baltimore to the White House to bring attention to the need for reparations
Mexican teen likely the youngest to die in ICE custody under Trump 2.0
Women leading the farmworker movement won’t let it be defined by Cesar Chavez
Ohio firm must pay $22.5 million to mom whose baby died after she was denied work-from-home
🗓️ Free Virtual Events
Duke Divinity Webinar: Bioethics and the Black Church featuring Dr. Wylin Wilson. Thursday, March 26, 2026 | 8:00 PM ET. Register Here
Decolonizing Mission: Imagining Christian Witness Without Empires
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On Our Radar
We are revisiting Dr. Perkins’ seminal work, Let Justice Roll Down. If you haven't read it, or haven't picked it up in years, now’s a great time to visit/revisit it.
Remember
The "Twin Prophets": Before they were names in history books, Ralph David Abernathy and Martin Luther King Jr. were young pastors strategizing in the basement of West Hunter Street Baptist. The recent push for National Historic Site status reminds us that the Civil Rights movement was a church movement before it was a political one.
Parting Shot
