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By Leah MarieAnn Klett, Assistant Editor Friday, July 12, 2024 Screengrab/God Bless Bitcoin The intersection of faith and bitcoin — and the government’s misuse of money — is at the center of “God Bless Bitcoin,” a documentary by Christian couple Brian and Kelly Estes hoping viewers will rethink their relationship with money and enable them […]
By Nicole VanDyke, CP Reporter Thursday, July 11, 2024 A screenshot of actor Russell Brand in a YouTube video from September 15, 2023. | Screenshot: YouTube/@RussellBrand Comedian Russell Brand has again spoken out about the impact of his new faith in Christ during a recent conversation with Neil Oliver posted to X, saying he is […]
One of the pastors on our staff was overheard saying to another staffer, “One of the things that makes Meck so different is that it is not organized for control, but rather organized for growth.” He gets it. It’s a simple but profound idea. When you are organized for control, then your decision-making systems, processes… […]
Amidst all the bad news in the news this week, let’s focus today on some good news. A new study of gratitude and mortality among older adults (in this case, older US female nurses) found that those who more frequently noticed and felt grateful for positive experiences tended to live longer. This report is […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
In normal times, I would probably be writing on Hurricane Beryl after it made landfall this morning in Matagorda, Texas; the storm is expected to cause significant flooding in the Houston area and beyond. Or I would focus on the surprising results in France’s parliamentary election, where leftists won the most seats, though no party won […]
In the late 1930s, Corrie ten Boom was living in a small town in the Netherlands, better known as Holland. Her home, called the Beje (pronounced bay-yay), was a tilting, centuries-old house in the center of Haarlem and its bumpy brick streets. Actually, it was two houses. In front, it looked like a typical old […]