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Saturday marked the end of the longest span between domestic assassination attempts of U.S. presidents and presidential candidates since President Lincoln was killed at Ford’s Theatre in 1865. President Garfield was killed in 1881; Mckinley in 1901. Attempts were made at Theodore Roosevelt in 1912, Franklin Roosevelt in 1933, and Truman in 1950. President […]
One of the oldest features of Christianity is its appeal among women. Women swelled the ranks of the Early Church as it reflected how Jesus had treated them. He talked to women in public, defended them against accusers, and appeared to them first after His resurrection. All this at a time when women were […]
Donald Trump wrote on his social media platform TruthSocial yesterday that it was “God alone who prevented the unthinkable from happening,” allowing him to survive Saturday’s assassination attempt. The Wall Street Journal editorial board similarly wrote, “It’s nothing short of miraculous that Mr. Trump avoided death by a literal inch.” According to the New […]
By Graham Colton, CP Contributor Saturday, July 13, 2024 Unsplash/Lesly Juarez First baseman Wes Clarke of the Nashville Sounds was baptized by a teammate in a horse trough after their game against the Memphis Redbirds last Saturday. The teammates both wore “Jesus Won” shirts during Clarke’s public display of faith in Christ. The Sounds — […]
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 […]