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By Leonardo Blair, Senior Reporter Friday, December 20, 2024 Bishop T.D. Jakes speaks during the MegaFest “Women Thou Art Loosed” closing session at Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center on July 1, 2017, in Dallas, Texas. | Cooper Neill/Getty Images for MegaFest 2017 Less than a month after suffering a “health incident,” which his attorneys blamed […]
By Michael Gryboski, Mainline Church Editor Friday, December 20, 2024 A worship service being held at Revival Today Church in Moon Township, Pennsylvania, on July 21, 2024. | Screengrab: YouTube/Revival Today Church A judge has temporarily blocked a multisite megachurch in Pennsylvania from hosting outdoor tent services on a property due to noise complaints from […]
There were significant developments in 2024, especially in the political landscape, on issues related to the protection of innocent life. Though the pro-life movement has faced many new challenges since the overturning of Roe v Wade in 2022, this year was perhaps the most eventful since the issue of abortion was returned to the states. We […]
By Katelyn Webb, Thursday, December 19, 2024 Matt Rife appears on the “History Hyenas” podcast. | History Hyenas/Screenshot Comedian Matt Rife said he recently got baptized in a pool following the death of his grandfather — and even though he “hates” church, he wants to believe in God. “I got baptized in August … in […]
In 1897, Dr. Philip O’Hanlon, a coroner’s assistant on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, was asked by his then eight-year-old daughter, Virginia, whether Santa Claus really existed. He suggested that she write The Sun, then a prominent New York City newspaper, because “If you see it in The Sun, it’s so.” One of the paper’s editors, […]
By Ian M. Giatti, Christian Post Reporter Thursday, December 19, 2024 Redemption Church Pastor Ron Carpenter Jr. previews a mobile app that offers AI-led spiritual counseling. | X/@Protestia Has a megachurch pastor already pulled the plug on an app that features an AI version for himself offering prayer for a monthly fee? Ron Carpenter Jr., […]
The sheer evil of a violent attack or mass shooting, such as occurred at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison Wisconsin earlier this week, elicits a number of appropriate responses. We rightly mourn the victims and marvel incredulously that a second grader made the 9-1-1 call. We grieve with and for parents who had […]
A church in Switzerland has created a computer-generated AI Jesus. St. Peter’s Chapel in Lucerne, ironically the nation’s oldest church, now has cutting-edge technology that enables people to talk with an AI version of God’s Son. When you enter a confessional booth, a lifelike avatar on a computer screen offers advice based on the […]
By Michael Gryboski, Mainline Church Editor Wednesday, December 18, 2024 iStock/1315026618 The United States Department of Justice has filed a complaint against a Georgia city for trying to permanently close down a Christian charity that ministers to the homeless. The DOJ filed a lawsuit against the city of Brunswick on Monday in the U.S. District […]
In the wake of the collapse of the dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad, American and Israeli warplanes conducted airstrikes against targets in Syria. Specifically, they went after existing military infrastructure and influential Islamist groups there. The tactical strategy was not mere opportunism. The aim was to ensure that whoever comes to power in Syria […]