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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 […]
By Anugrah Kumar, Christian Post Contributor Wednesday, July 10, 2024 The scene after a two-vehicle double-fatality accident at Highway 13 & Blaine’s Crossing Road in Linn County on July 7, 2024. | X/Linn County Sheriff’s Office Congregations and family members are grieving the loss of two United Methodist Church pastors, the Rev. Charles Layton, 65, […]
By Leonardo Blair, Senior Reporter Wednesday, July 10, 2024 A person looks out towards the flooded interstate after Hurricane Beryl swept through the area on July 08, 2024 in Houston, Texas. | Brandon Bell/Getty Images After Hurricane Beryl barreled into coastal Texas on Monday morning, Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church in Houston is among several churches […]
By Michael Gryboski, Mainline Church Editor Wednesday, July 10, 2024 ershinin/iStock Consuming a single alcoholic drink per day can reduce a person’s life expectancy by two-and-a-half months, according to an expert on substance use. Tim Stockwell, a scientist at the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research, told The Daily Mail that alcohol cuts down one’s […]
By Leonardo Blair, Senior Reporter Wednesday, July 10, 2024 Rev. Warren Beard, 53, was an assistant pastor and Sunday School teacher at the New Israelite Missionary Baptist Church in Chicago. | YouTube/New Israelite Missionary Baptist Church Rev. Warren Beard, a beloved father of five, Sunday school teacher and assistant pastor at New Israelite Missionary Baptist Church […]
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 […]
By Leonardo Blair, Senior Reporter Tuesday, July 09, 2024 The Rev. Warren Beard, 53, an assistant pastor and Sunday school teacher at the New Israelite Missionary Baptist Church in Chicago, Illinois, has been missing since July 2, 2024. | YouTube/New Israelite Missionary Baptist Church Family and friends of the Rev. Warren Beard, a beloved father […]