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By Leonardo Blair, Senior Reporter Wednesday, July 10, 2024 Rev. Warren Beard, 53, was an assistant pastor and Sunday School teacher at the New Israelite Missionary Baptist Church in Chicago. | YouTube/New Israelite Missionary Baptist Church Rev. Warren Beard, a beloved father of five, Sunday school teacher and assistant pastor at New Israelite Missionary Baptist Church […]
Today, China officially recognizes roughly 20 million Christians affiliated with “government-sanctioned” churches. These are churches registered with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and under state control. Actual numbers of Christians are believed to be well over 100 million, thanks in part to the courageous pioneering of Wang Mingdao, who in the 1930s established the […]
The thirty-two member states of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) are observing its seventy-fifty anniversary this week in Washington, DC. Support for Ukraine will be an especially high priority escalated by Russia’s missile attack Monday that hit a children’s hospital and killed at least forty-one civilians. The subplot across the week, however, will […]
By Leonardo Blair, Senior Reporter Tuesday, July 09, 2024 The Rev. Warren Beard, 53, an assistant pastor and Sunday school teacher at the New Israelite Missionary Baptist Church in Chicago, Illinois, has been missing since July 2, 2024. | YouTube/New Israelite Missionary Baptist Church Family and friends of the Rev. Warren Beard, a beloved father […]
Fashion has a way of exposing the true underbelly of culture, it reflects more of what is not said rather than what is expressed overtly. Fashion sets a tone, shares a message, and speaks visually in a glance at what would require a verbose explanation to express in word form. Recently the dress Olivia Culpo […]
By Nicole VanDyke, CP Reporter Tuesday, July 09, 2024 Rusty Golden | YouTube/RustyGoldenTV The son of The Oak Ridge Boys’ baritone singer William Lee Golden, Christian songwriter William “Rusty” Golden, died in his home in Hendersonville, Tennessee, last week. Golden, 85, announced his 65-year-old son’s death on his official X account last week, thanking fans […]
By Samantha Kamman, Christian Post Reporter Tuesday, July 09, 2024 A computer keyboard. | Getty Images A Mexican national who worked as a choir teacher at a Texas middle school will serve eight years in federal prison after pleading guilty to receiving 300 videos of child porn. Authorities say the 33-year-old man will likely be […]
Fifty years ago today, my dad went to prison. I was only 15 at the time, having just endured a year or more of the chaos of Watergate. The whirlwind of reporters, congressional hearings, criminal trials… and as a teenager having a dad who was hated by so many. My dad is Chuck Colson. […]
Years ago, I was very frustrated at the church’s and our nation’s spiritual condition. I prayed, “Lord, many of us have faith that things can change, but nothing seems to be working!” Through Scripture reading, I soon realized that faith often involves action: “The day I pray for God to move the mountain, I often […]
Hurricane Beryl came through my area yesterday, dropping nearly five inches of rain and causing high wind gusts. It was much worse elsewhere—the earliest Category 4 and Category 5 hurricane on record killed at least three people and knocked out power to nearly three million homes and businesses in Texas after devastating islands in […]