Source: BP NewsJACKSON, Tenn. (BP)–Union University President David S. Dockery presented a message entitled “The Greatness and Glory of the Resurrected Christ” to the White House Christian Fellowship June 12.The White House Christian Fellowship consists primarily of Christian….[Full Story...]
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Source: Laurinburg Exchange, NC The students completed a two-year program, meeting one night each week for three hours. Their credits will be transferred to Vision International University in California, an accredited institution from which they will receive the associate of arts degree in biblical studies.Pastor Donnie Meetze, director of the Institute, said he hoped the [...]
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Source: gomemphis.comTHE CHURCH of God in Christ, a major presence in Mid-South life and history, has affirmed its commitment to its hometown by joining city government in a plan to revive the South Memphis neighborhood around its headquarters. The effort could become a model public-private partnership for urban redevelopment. The project, which church and [...]
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Source: Baltimore Sun, MDScholarship questioning the Gospels’ events amplify deeper meaning. Recent scholarship on the New Testament puts virtually every fact in doubt concerning the life of Jesus. Where once “gospel truth” was the highest warrant for fact, the Gospels are now seen by many scholars as constructions rather than history, and the versions [...]
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Source: Taipei Times, TaiwanOLD TESTIMENT PROMISE?: Evangelicals who take literally God’s promise to Abraham to give the Jewish people the Holy Land have been an added obstacle to peace.Digging into the West Bank soil, Christians from America plant seedlings in a vineyard as a blessing for the 18,000 Jews who have built a town [...]
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Inspired by his faith Jesus Christ, Mel Gibson has directed, “The Passion.”bq.. Mel Gibson says he attended Mass every morning while shooting his new movie, The Passion, because “we had to be squeaky clean just working on this.”The film, which Gibson directs, stars James Caviezel as Christ during the last 12 hours of his life [...]
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Source: Akron Beacon Journal, OHOklahoma pastor shares his experiences in both religions with groups while traveling in areaConverting from Islam to Christianity nearly cost him his life and his family, says Iranian-born Reza Safa.His mother tried to put him in a mental institution, he says, and his father threatened to kill him…[Full Story...]
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Source: The Age, Australia The modern Australian pagan is a female Melburnian under the age of 35 who was born in Australia, has a university degree and lives in a de facto relationship. The latest census found nature religions, primarily Paganism and Wicca, were among the fastest growing in Australia with 24,000 followers…[Full Story...]
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Source: Dallas Baptist StandardWASHINGTON (RNS)–An inscription on an ancient stone burial box suggesting it held the remains of James, the brother of Jesus, is a fake, Israeli archaeological experts say. Other scholars, however, contend the guilty verdict may have been leveled prematurely. The Aramaic inscription on the limestone box, called an ossuary, was [...]
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Source: Johnstown Tribune Democrat, PABEDFORD – Until about a month ago, Bob Foor, 67, led a pretty quiet life.He spent his weekdays going to work at Bob Foor Cars, his used-car dealership at 636 Sunnyside Road, and his weekends faithfully attending church services and spending time with his family.It was through a combination of work [...]
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Source: Salt Lake TribuneEight years ago, Eric Kettunen built the Web site exmormon.org to help people who were struggling with their decision to leave the Mormon church. He hoped to offer a dozen or so people the kind of help and support others had given him and his wife when they [...]
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Source: Johnstown Tribune Democrat, PABEDFORD – Until about a month ago, Bob Foor, 67, led a pretty quiet life.He spent his weekdays going to work at Bob Foor Cars, his used-car dealership at 636 Sunnyside Road, and his weekends faithfully attending church services and spending time with his family.It was through a combination of work [...]
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Source: Honolulu Star-Bulletin, HI The Hawaii Christian Coalition’s leader says the group will cancel a Kid’s Parade if the American Civil Liberties Union wins a federal lawsuit to allow three gay advocacy groups to march in the event next Saturday.In a suit filed yesterday, the ACLU argues that the parade cannot discriminate against homosexuals because [...]
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Source: Christianity Today MagazineJackie Roberts drove a carload of kids from Florida to a cornfield in the Midwest out of motherly love and because her son wouldn’t stop bugging her. After six months of pestering, 15-year-old Brock convinced her that this was the only place he could see his favorite Christian bands. Over 1,000 [...]
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Source: Carolina Morning News A great story is circulating about a mother preparing pancakes for sons Kevin, 5, and Ryan, 3, when they began fighting over who would get the first one.Seeing an opportunity for a moral lesson, the mother said, “If Jesus were here, he would say, ‘Let my brother have the first [...]
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Source: BP NewsCHARLOTTE, N.C. (BP)–Anyone who resists the notion of women preachers is functioning as a tool of the devil, Tony Campolo, founder and president of the Evangelical Association for the Promotion of Education, said during the opening session of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s general assembly June 26.A sociologist by training, Campolo said that [...]
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Source: Cleveland Plain Dealer, OHChristian hip-hop artist Doc Harrill, aka D.J. Doc, was working the turntables, setting up beats for the open-mike portions of his Tuesday afternoon show at radio station WCSB. As he listens through his headphones, D.J. Doc nods his head to the music and urges his guests to “Rock it all…[Full [...]
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Source: Ghanaian Chronicle, Ghana “Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ, the Messiah, the Anointed One. Wives, be subject – be submissive and adapt yourselves – to your own husbands as [a service] to the Lord. For the husband is head of the wife as Christ is the Head of the church, [...]
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Source: Chicago Sun Times, IL When the ad for a “Christian video game” crossed my desk, at first I thought it was a joke. Perhaps the quick-witted folks at The Wittenburg Door or The Onion were putting me on, or someone had finally decided to market “Billy Graham’s Bible Blasters,” the fictitious game featured on [...]
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Source: Ekklesia, UK Encouraged by the apparent success of a Christian rehabilitation program in state prisons, the Bush administration is reportedly seeking ways to expand such programs to inmates in federal prisons. The head of the White House office for faith-based initiatives, Jim Towey, told reporters that President Bush had asked Attorney General John [...]
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