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Reuters/Mike Blake A Texas pastor’s open letter to his congregation on how parents can offer a Biblical response to pride month for their kids has been censored by the Google-owned blogging platform Blogger. Pastor Dan Phillips of Copperfield Bible Church in Houston shared a letter on Pyromaniacs, a blog from Grace to You Executive Director […]
According to the Smithsonian Institution, “Juneteenth marks our country’s second independence day.” On this day in 1865, some two thousand Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas, where they announced that the more than two hundred and fifty thousand enslaved black people in the state were free by executive decree. The day became known […]
A social media post by popular actor Chris Pratt about the blessings of God over the weekend garnered more than half a million likes and thousands of comments, including remarks by fans thanking him for speaking up about issues of faith. The Bible-infused Instagram post by the Jurassic World and Guardians of the Galaxy actor […]
When we honor our fathers this weekend, one-fourth of the children in the US will have little reason to celebrate. They don’t live with their fathers. “We have a generation of men who are not in the home,” pastor and author Tony Evans said. “They are like the abominable snowman—their footprints are all around, […]
Our ministry often receives email correspondence from desperate wives and mothers. They often read something like this, “I’m at a loss. My ‘Christian’ husband is verbally and physically abusive. Ironically, he thinks that I’m the problem; he sees no need to change.” “He’ll quote Scriptures about submission while yelling and cursing. His anger is also […]
When Southern Baptists met in New Orleans this week for their annual convention, a number of important issues were on the docket, including updating the Convention’s progress on the sexual abuse scandals that were the focus of last year’s meeting and discussing budget problems after coming in nearly $7 million in the red last […]
iStock/Rawpixel New research conducted by the American Bible Society reveals that Christians heavily engaged with the Bible and their faith “flourish in every domain of human experience.” The American Bible Society released Chapter 3 of its State of the Bible 2023 report Thursday, titled “Flourishing and Hope.” Data in the State of the Bible report […]
Eleven people were killed at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Oct. 27, 2018. | (Screenshot: CBS News) A jury has found the man charged with killing 11 people at a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, synagogue in 2018 guilty of all 63 federal charges leveled against him. In a decision announced Friday, 50-year-old Robert […]
The Arizona State House of Representatives has censured a Democratic representative after a video showed her hiding Bibles from his colleagues. State Rep. Stephanie Stahl-Hamilton was caught on camera in April removing the Bibles and hiding them under two sofas in the lounge in a State Capitol room. CAUGHT ON VIDEO: AZ Dem lawmaker/ordained minister […]
Michael W Smith | Screenshot: YouTube/Surrounded Did something “open the eyes” of Michael W. Smith’s heart? An endorsement of a controversial Bible translation from the Grammy-winning Christian singer appears to have disappeared after Smith offered his endorsement of The Passion Translation (TPT) version of the Bible late last month. Smith, a singer-songwriter whose career spans […]