In Depth:  James Patterson

Dr YoungHoon Kim, a South Korean man who claims to have the highest IQ in the world, has taken to X to announce he is a Christian.

He posted on X: “As the world’s highest IQ record holder, I believe that Jesus Christ is God, the way and the truth and the life.” The post now has over 22 million views.

Alex Phillips, journalist and broadcaster on TV channel Talk, has been baptised in the sea at Eastbourne.

Interviewed live on Talk, Phillips said she had been going to church for four years, saying she had been wishing to be baptised for “so long”. She referred to God has her “vitamin G”. Phillips attends church in London. She was in tears after being baptised by Phil Harris, a vicar in the West Midlands.

Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson Becker shared his faith on TV by wearing a shirt during Liverpool’s Premier League title celebrations last month.

Alisson wore an undershirt, which he uncovered at full time, with the message “Jesus, The Way, The Truth, The Life, John 14:6.”

Africa Inland Mission (AIM), an evangelical missionary agency, has merged its South Africa Mobilizing Office and Southern Region receiving office, forming a new ministry called AIM Southern Africa Region.

Tshepang Basupi has been appointed Director of AIM Southern Africa Region, consolidating the processes of sending and receiving missionaries, training leaders and sharing the gospel. The merger is intended to “better reflect the current and future realities of global missions” and will “enhance efforts to minister to the unreached peoples of Southern Africa”.

The General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland has appointed Dr Thomas Davis as the next Principal of the Edinburgh Theological Seminary (ETS).

Dr Davis will begin his new role in June 2028 upon the retirement of the current principal, Revd Iver Martin. Until then, he will teach some classes in Systematic Theology.