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Have you heard of “Krampus”? I had not until this Washington Post headline caught my eye: “Krampus isn’t coming to town. HE’S ALREADY HERE.” The subtitle adds: “The demonic anti-Santa, growing popular in America, will find out if you’re naughty, then hit you with a stick.” The article explains that Krampus is a European invention […]
By Anugrah Kumar, Christian Post Contributor Sunday, December 10, 2023 Jarrett Booker, 37, the former youth pastor at Nashua Baptist Church in Nashua, N.H., took his own life on Nov. 27, 2023. | YouTube/The Average Fat Biker Two weeks after Jarrett Booker, a New Hampshire youth pastor, died by suicide following allegations of child sexual […]
Israel accused the United Nations on Monday of failing to respond adequately to accounts that Hamas carried out widespread sexual violence against women when it attacked Israel on October 7. According to Gilad Erdan, Israel’s ambassador to the UN, “Sadly, the very international bodies that are supposedly the defenders of all women showed that […]
By Dennis Lennox, CP Contributor Sunday, December 10, 2023 Dusk in downtown Cottonwood, Arizona. | Dennis Lennox Forget Sedona, which in recent years has become openly hostile to tourists, and instead plan a trip to nearby Cottonwood. The once-sleepy town with its population of 12,029 souls has become a destination in its own right, thanks […]
In the competitive world of online status-mongering, courage involves little more than clicking “like” or earning a “mention” in a post that could risk losing a follower or two. Real courage is, of course, something else entirely. It’s about doing the right thing when there are real costs. It’s taking an unpopular stand, even […]
With the continuing wars in Ukraine and Israel, political unrest, and a seemingly endless supply of reminders that we live in a fallen, broken world, it’s understandable that many have begun to wonder more openly if we are living in the end times. But while those questions are worth asking, we shouldn’t let them […]
It’s not uncommon to hear that the divorce rate is the same inside the Church as outside. Though it’s not true, even Christians tend to repeat it as if it were. Both the kind of church a married couple attends and how faithfully they attend make a notable difference in marital stability. In her […]
I always find it incredible that the Jewish custom of an annual cycle of reading the entire Torah (Genesis through Deuteronomy) in the course of a year brings us back to the same verses, stories, and narratives that we read a year earlier but in a different place in our lives that we relate to […]
As Jewish people around the world mark Hanukkah, or the “Feast of Dedication,” this year, it may look different as hearts are heavy over the conflict in Israel. Hanukkah’s roots actually hearken back to another time of violence in Jerusalem, when the Jewish people were successful in driving out the Greco-Assyrian invaders in 167 BCE. […]
By Anugrah Kumar, Christian Post Contributor Saturday, December 09, 2023 Michael Hodges, son of the church’s founding Pastor Chris Hodges, wins on “Wheel of Fortune.” | Screenshot/YouTub/Wheel of Fortune Alabama’s largest megachurch, Church of the Highlands, recently celebrated a unique achievement. Michael Hodges, son of the church’s founding Pastor Chris Hodges, emerged victorious on the […]